Safety Professional III

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and maintain risk assessment processes, including Hazard Identification, JSA/JHA, and operational risk evaluations.
• Lead assigned incident and near-miss investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and closure verification.
• Support ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 management system activities, audits, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate EHS inspections, compliance activities, environmental programs, emergency preparedness, and training initiatives.
• Support Management of Change reviews involving equipment, processes, chemicals, and facility modifications.
• Collect, analyze, and report EHS and operational performance metrics.
• Provide EHS guidance for contractor safety, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, PPE, hazard communication, and other operational controls.
• Support assigned Quality Management System activities, including internal audits, document control, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist with investigations involving nonconforming products, customer complaints, and process quality issues when assigned.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, HR, Supply Chain, and Quality personnel to promote compliance and continual improvement.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Maintain a visible EHS presence in manufacturing, warehouse, laboratory, maintenance, and other operational areas.
• Conduct workplace inspections, safety observations, hazard assessments, risk assessments, and JSA JHAs.
• Identify unsafe conditions and practices, communicate findings, and coordinate corrective actions through closure.
• Investigate incidents, injuries, property damage events and near misses and maintain supporting documentation.
• Deliver new-hire orientation, regulatory training toolbox talks and employee-awareness activities.
• Monitor site implementation of Lockout Tagout, machine guarding, electrical safety, PPE Hazard Communication, confined-space, hot-work, powered-industrial-truck, ergonomics and contractor-safety requirements.
• Review new equipment processes chemicals and facility changes for EHS risks and required controls.
• Maintain training records, inspection, documents permits, Safety Data Sheets, investigation files and compliance records.
• Monitor emergency equipment and support drills evacuations and response-readiness activities.
• Collect verify analyze and report site EHS metrics trends and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in production engineering facilities quality HR and operational meetings as needed.
• Provide practical EHS guidance to employees’ supervisors and site leadership and escalate significant or unresolved concerns.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, Quality, Industrial Technology, or related field.
• Minimum five years of progressive experience in EHS, Quality, or manufacturing operations.
• Working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, and manufacturing compliance requirements.
• Experience with ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001 management systems preferred.
• Experience coordinating audits, training, investigations, and corrective actions preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Strong risk assessment, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of ISO management systems, auditing principles, and corrective action processes.
• Ability to support both EHS priorities and secondary Quality System activities.
• Strong communication, training, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and reporting tools.