Safety Specialist (Loudon, TN) - Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

This is a fulltime maintenance job working 40 hours a week.  There is no per diem and no relocation funding.

Safety Technician

Responsibilities include executing the site safety program on an assigned project. Educates and trains Austin project staff in safety requirements, best practices in incident prevention. Ensures compliance with company and customer safety policies. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities 

• Facilitate site safety inspections and correct any deficiencies, trains new employees in Austin and OSHA safety policies, and assist in setting up and maintaining the SWPPP for the job. 
• Provide mandatory Austin safety training to Austin personnel (Safety Management, OSHA 10-Hour, OSHA Refresher, Competent Person Training, etc.).
• Interact with project managers and superintendents to help identify possible hazards.  Assist in the administration of the safety and DBO2 programs for the jobsite and illustrate the changes in regulations and procedures. 
• May accompany an OSHA or Division of Workers Comp (DWC) safety representative during a jobsite inspection. 
• Assist in conducting seminars, project interviews, committee meetings, project start-up meetings, accident investigations, and audits 
• Assist with administering the Corporate/Client safety, health, and environmental programs at the site level.
• Advise site management in the safety, health, and environmental areas.
• Conduct surveys, audits, investigations, and gather information and data as may be required.
• Implement, evaluate, and administer the safety program to address inadequacies within a program to include the creation and presentation of training programs for management, supervision, or employees.
• Maintain current knowledge of applicable rules and regulations.
• Evaluate and administer company policies and procedures concerning safety, health, and environmental matters.
• Initiate and maintain safety awareness programs and foster such programs to improve awareness.
• Administer or create special safety, accident prevention, housekeeping, environmental and other safety related programs for site locations as needed.
• Provide guidance to management through interpretation of the company/client safety requirements.
• Inspect, monitor, and evaluate project safety programs for value and effectiveness.
• Develop programs that will address inadequacies in the safety and health program.
• Maintain liaison with the clients, safety representatives, the safety and health community in the area, and site management.
• Conduct investigations of project accidents and incidents that may require litigation and obtain and protect collected data.
• Maintain records, reports and documents that may be required to meet corporate or regulatory requirements.
• Administer a pre-job management/safety orientation for all new employees.
• Conduct or direct and assure regular inspections of the workplace to evaluate accident and fire prevention measures.
• Analyze safety problems and recommend solutions to those problems.
• Perform routine inspections, monitoring, and analysis of work areas.
• Maintain a high knowledge level of all applicable safety, health, or environmental standards.
• Maintain liaison with each project location’s safety department for specific directives of special circumstances or variations of safety policies.
• Monitor Worker’s Compensation activities to include reporting, tracking, communications, loss prevention, loss control and interface as needed.
• Maintain proper documentation on employees warned or cited for safety violations.
• Recommend solutions or clarifications to situations concerning safety and health.
• Work with supervision to evaluate personnel for competency prior to designation or assignment as “Competent Persons.”
• Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education: Preferred two (2) years related degree in Occupational Safety and Health or equivalent work experience.

OSHA 30 or equivalent required.

Must have experience working in an industrial setting.

Must pass drug screen and background check, as condition of employment.

This is a fulltime maintenance job working 40 hours a week.  There is no per diem and no relocation funding.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.  Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about Austin, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/who-we-are.  

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company. 

Accessibility Note

• If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

Become an Owner

Unlike other companies that may be privately or publicly held, Austin is 100% owned by our employees. It's a source of pride for everyone, one of our 5,700 employee-owners, that we have vested interest in the day-to-day success of our company. We share Austin's growth and profitability and are accountable to ourselves for doing everything it takes to serve our customers with excellence and to make Austin the best it can be. After all, We Own It. Learn more at www.austin-ind.com.