Safety Specialist

Job Summary:

Promotes the Company safety mission and objectives by providing assigned facilities with an effective safety program designed to ensure a safe and healthy work environment that complies with federal, state, and local guidelines.

Job Responsibilities:

• Executes Corporate Safety Policies and participates in the development of facility-specific procedures for compliance with established standards.
• Analyzes workplaces to identify potential safety and health hazards and risks at assigned facilities and develops prevention activities, with indirect accountability for enforcement.
• Promotes a safety culture by communicating safety information to employees and management team.
• Assists in the development, design, and delivery of safety training for full-time, part-time, and temporary employees.
• Conducts investigations of all safety incidents or concerns and assists with completion of corrective action plans.
• Conducts regular safety inspections, specific equipment inspections, and safety meetings.
• Compiles and analyzes data relating to safety and health issues, prioritizes situations, and drives the process of correcting or improving areas of concern.
• Maintains safety records and submits reports to Company managers and governmental agencies, ensuring accuracy and compliance while conducting and responding to inspections and audits.
• Ensures adherence to all applicable safety regulations and standards. Determines needed safety and health employee testing and contracts outside services to conduct same; analyzes results and coordinates decision-making process relative to appropriate action.
• Builds, develops and facilitates Safety Committee.
• Conducts audits and inspections to ensure that the Company's safety/health principles, policies, and programs are consistently practiced, and assists with employee disciplinary action when appropriate.
• Provides advice and approval of safety and health issues for new products and processes and ensures appropriate measures are in place before new products or processes are released for production.
• Responds to all outside medical attention injuries and ensures appropriate action is taken relative to any personnel, equipment, machinery, or tools that were involved in incident.
• Maintains working knowledge of new developments in the industry, in government regulations, or in benchmark data available in the areas of safety and health.
• Perform other job related duties as assigned.

Education, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of Associates Degree in Safety or Technology discipline and minimum three years related experience required; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced specialized training in industrial safety and hygiene, ergonomics, and OSHA regulations, as well as other pertinent Federal, State or Local regulations required.
• Have a background in manufacturing and finishing processes, employee safety and health, OSHA and NFPA regulations, industrial hygiene.
• Possess report-writing skill and the ability to research and administer OSHA, Corporate and facility policies and procedures.
• Ability to problem-solve and make sound judgments and decisions.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information skillfully, make sound judgments and decisions, and develop alternative and valid solutions as needed.
• Effective communication and presentations skills.
• Ability to conduct thorough investigations and identify root causes.
• Detail oriented with strong recordkeeping skills.
• Leadership skills to promote a safety culture within the workplace.
• Ability to work different hours or shifts.
• Knowledge of PC operations, i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and database management.
• Knowledge of Safety and HRIS software

Preferred Experience

• Workers’ compensation

License, Certification or Special Requirements:

None required.

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee will encounter to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to an office and plant environment including: moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

When in production areas, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn including but not limited to: eyes, ear, foot and/or other protective devices as required.

About Us

American Trim is a local family owned and operated business with a 70 year history in the community. We proudly serve a diverse customer base in the appliance, automotive, trucking and aftermarket industries. American Trim has multiple manufacturing locations and is the industry leader in forming and decorating metal products, working to develop and market breakthrough ideas and product concepts that improve the aesthetics, performance and enjoyment of products that can be found in every business, household, and vehicle system.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. American Trim does not anticipated providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status).