This role is located in Wytheville, VA and reports to the General manager

Who will you be working with?

As a member of the Elastomers Group, the successful candidate will work with management and manufacturing personnel to provide leadership and coaching to the site by creating a proactive approach to safety and health in the workplace.

How will you make a difference?

As a member of the Elastomer Group in the Components Team, you will be responsible for planning, developing, and implementing an effective health & safety and loss prevention program for the location. Outline and implement various training programs on site about employee safety procedures and accident prevention. Ensures that sound safety and health management systems are in place, anticipating, recognizing, and evaluating safety and health hazards, assisting with problem solving and monitoring and continuously improving the performance of the sites’ safety and health systems. This position will be visible and interacting with all employees concerning health and safety, assessing hazard conditions, and implementing practices to reduce those hazards. Develop a proactive and collaborative approach at the sites to create a healthy and safe working environment.

This role reports to the General Manager. Remote work is not available.

What do we want to know about you?

• Develop, communicate, and maintain safety and hazardous communication programs and systems. Oversee the effective operation and administration of these systems and programs to ensure a safe work environment and culture of zero accidents.
• Tracks safety performance.
• Develop training programs to improvement the quality of incident investigations.
• Develop and maintain JSA’s (job safety analysis).
• Conducts training programs on various safety related programs.
• Develop systems, procedures and processes that can be deployed to achieve an injury free workplace.
• Assists with developing written policies and procedures for various safety programs and emergency evacuation and safety communication bulletins.
• Identify root causes of near misses, injuries, and property damage to prevent future events of the same nature.
• Coordinate and conduct periodic safety audits and inspections to identify and address any unsafe work practices and conditions.
• Reviews all work-related injury investigation reports and ensures that identified, addressed, and corrected any hazard conditions. Verifies corrective measures have been taken to avoid any repeated accidents.
• Assists operations and engineering on matters related to ergonomics and continuous improvements when new workplace projects are being developed to ensure any safety and health issues are adequately addressed prior to the startup of the process.
• Ensures that hazard assessments are conducted, and communications requirements are implemented and followed.
• Collaborates with human resources with the development of a safety training program to support onboarding process through site awareness training for new hired employees, including contractors, before being related into the workplace.
• Coordinates industrial hygiene surveys including noise, ventilation, chemical and ergonomic. Analyze and interpret data and recommend elimination/reduction of potential hazards in the workplace. Coordinate employee testing (i.e. hearing conservation).
• Designs and delivers safety related communication, including signs, posters, barriers, and other materials to warn of potential and actual safety hazards and to prevent access to hazardous conditions.
• Reviews all correspondence required by regulatory agencies, including OSHA reporting requirements, and any environmental reporting.
• Support the administration of workers compensation program, including working with the insurance carrier to reduce employee lost time and cost control of workers compensation costs.
• Develops, reviews, and maintains responsibility for security programs at each location. Ensures security vendor efficiency. Reviews security vendor costs.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in safety engineering science or related discipline from an accredited university or college
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a plant safety role

What about the physical demands of the job?

• Ability to work on manufacturing floor as well as office environment
• Ability to stand/walk for 8 hour period
• Occasionally bend; stoop; and lift and carry up to 50 lbs. (less than 2 hours/8 hour work day)
• Frequently stand; walk; talk; hear; use hands and fingers to handle; reach with hands and arms (up to 6-hours/8 hours day)