Safety Specialist

Job description

Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations! DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half-century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way. Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory-Built Substations, our age-old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family. DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations is currently looking for a Safety Coordinator to join their team. The Safety Coordinator is responsible for ensuring employees adhere to all safety policies and procedures, maintaining safety-related training records, and overseeing reports and inspection activities. CORE COMPETENCIES: Customer Focus Decision Quality Business Insight Drives Results Collaborates Communicates Effectively Courage Instills Trust Manages Ambiguity ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Promote and maintain a proactive safety culture throughout the facility and serve as a visible safety resource for all employees. • Conduct routine and daily observations of production, maintenance, material handling, yard, warehouse, and support activities to identify unsafe conditions, unsafe acts, and opportunities for improvement. • Exercise Stop Work Authority whenever an imminent danger, serious hazard, or uncontrolled risk is identified; communicate the concern, initiate appropriate controls, and document resolution. • Perform and/or coordinate formal safety inspections, behavioral observations, audits, job hazard analyses, risk assessments, and workplace exposure evaluations. • Lead the development, review, and continuous improvement of safety policies, procedures, programs, and work instructions. • Ensure safety procedures are practical, understood by employees, and implemented consistently across operations. • Investigate all recordable and potentially serious incidents, injuries, illnesses, near misses, property damage events, and other significant safety events; identify immediate, underlying, and root causes and establish corrective actions. • Track corrective and preventive actions to completion, verify effectiveness, and escalate overdue or ineffective actions to management. • Maintain OSHA-required injury and illness records and support required reporting, documentation, and record retention. • Support safety metrics and reporting, including leading and lagging indicators, incident trends, corrective-action status, inspection findings, and training completion. • Conduct new-employee safety orientation and recurring safety training; develop or update training materials based on identified hazards, incidents, regulatory changes, and operational needs. • Maintain accurate safety training records and verify that employees are qualified or authorized before performing safety-sensitive work. • Coordinate or support training and qualification programs for forklift operators, crane/rigging activities, PPE, Hazard Communication, lockout/tagout, emergency response, fall protection, electrical safety, fire prevention, hot work, heat stress, and other applicable topics. • Lead emergency response activities involving medical incidents, fire alarms, evacuations, hazardous material incidents, severe weather, spills, and other facility emergencies. • Coordinate emergency drills, evaluate drill performance, document deficiencies, and implement corrective actions. • Inspect and maintain records for fire extinguishers, AEDs, eyewash stations, emergency equipment, spill response equipment, first-aid supplies, and other emergency response resources. • Assist with development, implementation, and periodic review of Emergency Action Plans and other emergency response procedures. • Support industrial hygiene activities and exposure assessments involving noise, heat stress, welding fumes, dust, chemicals, lighting, ventilation, ergonomics, and other workplace exposures; coordinate outside resources when specialized testing is required. • Evaluate PPE requirements, assist with PPE selection, and maintain or support PPE assessments and programs appropriate to the hazards of each operation. • Assist operations with machine guarding, electrical safety, hazardous energy control/lockout-tagout, material handling, powered industrial trucks, cranes and lifting operations, welding/hot work, ergonomics, and other manufacturing hazards. • Review safety aspects of new equipment, process changes, facility modifications, and new or revised work practices before implementation when requested. • Participate in contractor and visitor safety activities, including orientation, site requirements, and verification of applicable safety documentation. • Coordinate with supervisors and managers to correct hazards while minimizing unnecessary disruption to production. • Participate in regulatory, insurance, customer, corporate, and internal safety audits/inspections; assist with responses and corrective-action documentation. • Monitor changes in applicable safety regulations, industry practices, and company requirements and recommend program updates as needed. • Serve as a liaison with Human Resources, Operations, Quality, Maintenance, Environmental, and other departments on safety-related issues. • Provide periodic safety reports and recommendations to the Safety Manager and facility management regarding trends, significant hazards, incidents, corrective actions, and program performance. • Support safety committee activities, toolbox talks, safety meetings, safety campaigns, and employee engagement initiatives. • Maintain confidentiality and professionalism when handling incident investigations, employee information, and other sensitive safety records. • Perform other duties as assig