Safety Specialist I

SUMMARY

General Description:

Supports safety program requirements across all Authority operations.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Monitors ongoing operations, performs inspections, audits, training, and generates required written and oral reports as requested by supervisor.
• Develops processes to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements applied to company and contracted operations.
• Performs specific assigned tasks required to verify regulatory compliance and develops processes to efficiently monitor ongoing operations to capture potential compliance issues early in the process and prevent major violations during workflows.
• Other duties as assigned.

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

General Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job-Related Experience:

One year experience in related field or a current OSHA 30 certification and six months experience as a Safety Technician.

Certifications: Must be able to obtain or possess the OSHA 30 Certification within 90 days of hire.

Licenses, etc.: Valid driver's license is necessary when operating a vehicle while on agency business.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Knowledge:

Must be able to learn chemicals used on site, including Safety Data (SDS), must be able to be certified in crane/lifting equipment, rigging and proper communication and operation of crane and lifting devices, personnel protection equipment (PPE), fall protection equipment, as well as lockout/tag out and confined space regulations.

Skills:

• Possess adequate knowledge of chemicals used on site, including Safety Data (SDS).
• Possess working knowledge of crane/lifting equipment, rigging and proper communication and operation of crane and lifting devices, personnel protection equipment (PPE), fall protection equipment, as well as lockout/tag out and confined space regulations.
• Must be able to comprehend SDS information.
• Uses multi-gas meters and O2 meters.
• Must possess knowledge of the following industrial site management.
• Corrosion Control identification.
• Electrical Meter usage; Multi-meter, Voltmeter and Ohms-meter/Grounding requirements.
• Flex hose Requirements; types, ratings commodities, integrity and restraints.
• Cryogenics, handling and safe operating techniques.
• Spill and emergency procedures.
• Use of personal protective equipment, including respiratory protective devices.
• High Pressure, safety, release effects of potential energy, proper restraint, configuration basics and applications, dangers and precautions.
• Chemical, communicate safe work practice and identifications. Hazardous Communication (HAZCOM).
• Ensure specific processes, procedures and certifications are present for support of hazardous operations.
• Must possess the following specific to launch site management.
• Emergency Egress Procedures; Marshalling Area/Badge Board.
• Contents/Purpose/Use/Disposal of Spill Kits.
• Cryogenics, handling and safe operating techniques.
• Understand the process for accident reporting and fires accidents, spills and emergency procedures.
• System Safing/Damage Mitigation; Fuel, Cryogenic systems, High Pressure Gas Systems, Electrical Isolation.
• Operational, Occupational/Industrial Safety.
• Overview of fall protection criteria and practice.
• Overview of Institutional Safety Inspection 1910 and 1925 standards.

Abilities:

• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or board of directors.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Interprets drawings, specifications, blueprints, schematics, diagrams and sketches.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 40 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. The employee is frequently exposed to risk of radiation and vibration. Work environment involves significant risks with exposure to potentially dangerous or extremely adverse conditions which require a range of safety and other precautions, e.g. fieldwork on launch pads, near high pressure and cryogenic systems, near extremely energetic materials. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions (non-weather); working near moving mechanical parts; outdoor weather conditions; extreme cold (non-weather) and extreme heat (non-weather).

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud

Must be able to obtain and maintain eligibility for issuance of a NASA credential.

Must be able to pass a pre-employment background check and drug test.