What are the responsibilities and job description for the Safety Specialist position at Ahlstrom?
The Safety Specialist is responsible for achieving optimum health and safety compliance and performance for our Kaukauna mill operations in a manner that meets or exceeds established performance expectations. The Safety Specialist is the key agent in evaluating and developing safety, health, and industrial hygiene programs, along with developing and conducting necessary training, managing required compliance reporting, and overseeing the facility’s Emergency Response Program. The Safety Specialist is also responsible for providing support to our operations leaders and must set the tone for safety accountability with this group.
Safety Specialist has responsibility for the following:
- Must follow Ahlstrom's manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
- Walk the manufacturing floor on a regular basis to establish a Health and Safety presence and provide support.
- Support the Health Services team.
- Provide support in the Workers Compensation program with an emphasis on process improvement and cost reduction.
- Evaluate, develop, deploy and monitor safety and health programs, procedures, policies, and standards to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, customer, and Company safety and health standards and requirements.
- Provide support to the manufacturing leadership team in safety compliance, employee ownership and safety accountability.
- Transform the culture of safety leadership and responsibility from functional leadership to manufacturing ownership and personal accountability.
- Provide focus, direction, leadership, training and technical expertise to tactical teams and committees, such as the Joint Safety Committee, First Responders, etc.
- Identify, implement and solidify best-known preventive/compliance safety and health standards and practices into all operations.
- Develop, implement and administer an internal safety and health hazard/risk assessement and standards compliance auditing processs designed to validate adherence to best-known standards and practices.
- Lead root-cause analysis investigations procedure/process designed to reveal and capture intellectual wisdom from all near-miss and/or failure occurences. Communicate post-incident and near-miss findings through written and vebal communications and etailed incident investigaions.
- Lead continuous improvement processes to identify and eliminate high-risk tasks trhough review of historical incident data; leading/warning indicators; plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity ovservations; and other related methods.
- Provide applicable management/agency notification, oversigth, interface, and coaching and serve as the point of contact for all inquiries, communication and intervace with Federal, State, and Local agencies/authorizites.
- Ensure safety and health is considered in all appropriate business activities and that safety pre-checks are completed prior to all facility, equipment, process, technology and/or raw material modifications/changes.
- Ensure adequate safety and health controls are properly designed, installed, trained and operating on all equipment.
- All other assignments assigned by management
This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and may not necessarily comprise all the “essential functions” for purposes of the ADA.
Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Join our journey to create a more sustainable world with products and solutions that Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our three divisions, Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions.
We are deeply committed to building and maintaining safe and inclusive environment and culture, where everyone feels valued and respected. At Ahlstrom, we all have equal opportunities to belong and reach our full potential.
Our net sales in 2024 amounted to EUR 3.0 billion and we employ some 6,800 people. Read more at www.ahlstrom.com
