
DC Safety Specialist
- Elgin, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assist in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the workplace to ensure compliance with Company Safety policies to provide a safe and secure workplace for employees, visitors, vendors, and guests.
- Manage multiple, complex, and essential safety projects from conception to implementation.
- Perform work task Risk Assessments and develop safety standard work in conjunction with associates.
- Complete ergonomic assessments on job tasks, incorporating findings into applicable Standard Work.
- Creates, supports, and implements strategies to establish and improve safety compliance.
- Coordinate with any outside emergency agency, Fire, Police, Sheriff, OSHA, etc. Develops, evaluates and recommends process and equipment changes and improvements to maximize safety and improve environmental impacts of operations.
- Act as Emergency Response leader in the case of chemical spills, fire, serious injuries and other unplanned emergency events.
- Act as the point of contact and lead the efforts for any regulatory visits such as OSHA, Fire Marshal etc..
- Evaluate jobs and build out JHA and JSA programs. Chair the site Safety Committee.
- Bias for Action: Evaluate, act and communicate in a timely manner.
- Decision Making: Make timely, practical, and effective decisions using facts, data, and logic to support your reasoning.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself and other individuals and organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Influence: The ability to produce positive outcomes through others by communicating, training, and coaching.
- Sound Judgment: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Conflict Management: Ability to effectively resolve high stress situations by understanding all sides of a problem and working with others to develop the best solutions.
- Communicating: Deliver information to others in an effective and appropriate manner.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implication of gathering new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others to ensure all goals are met.
- Analysis: Ability to use reporting and mathematics to identify and solve problems.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
- Integrity: Acting with morals and ethics in all circumstances and maintaining utmost confidentiality
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Originality: The ability to come up with new and different ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to determine when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It involves recognizing there is a problem and resolving it.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Constant walking
- Frequent sitting and standing
- Frequent reaching above shoulder heights and below the waist
- Occasional lifting of items up to 50 pounds.
- Occasional climbing of ladders
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Business, Risk Management, or a two-year University degree in Industrial Safety, Environmental Management (or related field), and/or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in Supply Chain EHS Required.
- Knowledge of principles of accident prevention, safety, OSHA requirements Required.
- Knowledge of ergonomic fundamentals preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
- OSHA 30 preferred
- AED & CPR Certified Preferred
- No Travel Requirements