Senior Safety & Health Specialist (Senior, Senior A, or Principal)
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Apply online a current resume under the careers section of Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC)
The Senior Safety & Health Specialist (Senior, Senior A, or Principal) monitors, analyzes, and investigates workplace activities and potential hazards to support company initiatives within assigned area or facility(s) through review of work packages, assessments, walk downs, and/or observations. Identifies hazardous workplace conditions and removes hazards and/or protects employees by guarding, revising work procedures, and training or requiring use of protective clothing and personal protective equipment. Responsible for identifying and mitigating hazardous conditions that affect workers, property, the environment, and the general public. Takes effective steps to ensure that workplace conditions comply with applicable federal, state, local and organization occupational safety and health standards, ensuring that all required records are prepared and maintained. Participates in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspections and in any procedures that may follow a citation. Investigates, prepares, and forwards as required reports on injuries and fatalities.
A Senior Safety & Health Specialist:
- Assumes technical responsibility for one or more related phases of the Safety and Health (S&H) Program within assigned area that are low to moderate risk.
- Evaluates proposals and makes recommendations based on proposed projects/tasks.
- Assists design teams to identify safety and health specifications and design requirements of low to moderate risk work packages.
- Educates, observes, and ensures all personnel are performing work in compliance within assigned area.
- Performs conventional practices of S&H by anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling occupational hazards in the workplace through job scope reviews, walk downs, and general observations.
- Investigates accidents, injuries, and complaints concerning hazards in assigned area of minimal impact.
- Responsible for compiling and providing all documentation from investigation.
- Conducts facility and self-assessments of limited scope.
- Supports emergency response drills and regularly attends Local Safety Improvement Team (LSIT) meetings to provide guidance and support.
- Demonstrates considerable knowledge and understating of company and industry specific regulatory requirements/standards.
- Assists more senior personnel in the development, implementation, and maintenance of safety and health programs, systems, and procedures.
- Researches innovative techniques, materials, equipment to implement into company, ensuring the quality of programs.
- Supports the preparation and review of written programs, job hazard analyses, personal protective equipment assessments and other health and safety program elements as requested.
- Promotes compliance with required Experience Modification Rate (EMR), Total Recordable Case (TRC) and Days Away Restricted or Transferred (DART) established goals.
- Serves as a company Subject Matter Expert of a specific S&H program.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Utilizes comprehensive experience to develop, implement and maintain safety and health programs, systems and procedures within a specialized field.
- Generates trending reports for performance indicators as requested. Tracks personnel and facility exposure doses.
- Assigns, tracks, and sends reminders to complete facility S&H required reading assignments. Generates and reviews trending reports through Site Tracking, Analysis & Reporting (STAR) application.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Incorporates conventional and some advanced Safety and Health (S&H) practices and a variety of complex features into problem solving and programmatic planning where objectives are stated with some detail or precedence.
- Conducts facility assessments and/or Manager Field Observations (MFOs) within a given specialty or area.
- Identifies innovative materials, systems, and/or processes to enhance the company’s safety culture through research.
- Researches and procures innovative techniques, materials, and equipment to incorporate into the company while ensuring high quality of programs. Responsible for piloting and training employees of newly implemented items.
- Prepares and reviews written programs, job hazard analyses, personal protective equipment assessments and other health and safety program elements.
Additional Responsibilities for a Principal Safety & Health Specialist:
- Incorporates innovation through extensive experience to develop, implement and maintain safety and health programs, systems and procedures of assigned facility.
- Develops, designs, and conducts comprehensive occupational hazard inspection and monitoring strategies within a specialized field. May be requested to develop and conduct employee training, ensuring high quality of the program.
- Prepares and reviews written programs, job hazard analyses, personal protective equipment assessments and other health and safety program elements. Helps develop and/or reviews health and safety procedures as requested. In addition, may be requested to develop and conduct employee training and perform effectiveness reviews.
- Promotes compliance with required Experience Modification Rate (EMR), Total Recordable Case (TRC) and Days Away Restricted or Transferred (DART) established goals. Serves as an expert resource for line management to develop and administer a proactive prevention program for accidents and illness per company requirements.
- Generates/gathers trending and other performance indicator reports. Presents to Project Directors and company Senior Management. May be asked to compile similar reports for customers and internal stakeholders as requested.
- Reviews, enters, reports, and/or resolves Site Tracking, Analysis & Reporting (STAR) items regarding Safety and Health and/or radiological discipline and ensures safety controls have been put in place.
- Demonstrates knowledge of industry’s innovative developments, processes, and techniques through successful implementation.
Minimum Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED or Associates degree and related experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Health, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering or related science and related experience
- Must have a flexible schedule to work on-call as delegated by schedule.
- Internal candidates with experience as a FLM, Radiological Control may also qualify.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fundamental knowledge of S&H standard theories, practices, concepts, principles and techniques;
- Working knowledge of pertinent S&H practices and applications.
- Certified as Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST)/ Occupational Health and Safety Technologists (OHST)
- Associate Safety Professional (ASP)
- Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) or Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
- Understands and applies advanced S&H theories, concepts and art; working knowledge of related disciplines.
- Local group recognition as an expert
- Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) Training
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or pursuant thereof
- Safety Trained Supervisor
- Previous experience with advanced S&H theories, concepts and art; advanced knowledge of related disciplines.
- Prior experience with compiling, preparing and presenting S&H material to multiple management levels.
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