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Position Overview:
The Safety Coordinator coordinates and enforces employee health and safety programs and promotes safety awareness to minimize work-related injuries. This role focuses on ensuring compliance, conducting inspections, and assisting with training and documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Comprehends federal, state, and local safety regulations and ensures that the company is in compliance with Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) guidelines.
- Conduct safety walk-throughs and inspections
- Maintain safety documentation (SDS, JHAs, etc.)
- Assist with toolbox talks and safety meetings
- Support audits and field-level implementation of policies
- Drafts and updates safety training materials and trains staff on safety protocols and preventative measures.
- Runs risk assessments on workspaces and presents reports to safety managers
- Assists with the implementation of new safety procedures.
- Performs root cause analysis on accidents and work hazards and proposes corrective actions.
Qualifications:
Travel Requirements:
● This position requires moderate travel, approximately up to 40% of the time, in support of business
objectives and client engagements. Travel may be both scheduled and on short notice, depending on
project needs. Destinations typically include job sites, field locations, or regional offices, where work may
be conducted in outdoor or operational environments. Adherence to all company safety protocols and
use of PPE is required during travel and on-site work.
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
This position primarily works in an outdoor work environment, regularly exposed to varying field conditions, including:
- Sites that may not be accessible by vehicle, requiring travel on foot through wetlands, swamps, grasslands, fields, and other uneven or rugged terrain with natural and man-made obstacles such as sand, brush, and debris.
- Moderate to loud noise levels, common in active construction and industrial environments.
- Exposure to environmental elements including dirt, dust, sun, heat, humidity, and adverse weather conditions.
The physical requirements for this position may include and are not limited to:
- Ability to lift and/or carry 35 to 75 lbs. up to 75 feet, involving regular repetitive motion.
- Ability to stand, walk, drive, and operate equipment for extended periods.
- Frequent use of hands and arms for typing, handling tools, and operating equipment.
- Ability to bend, twist, reach, stoop, pull, kneel, climb, balance, lift, carry, and push as required for fieldwork and inspections.
- Ability to speak and hear effectively to communicate in noisy environments and with project teams.
- Ability to use your senses to see (including close, distant, and peripheral vison, depth vision, and ability to focus) smell, hear, touch (use hands to reach climb or balance, crouch, stoop, crawl, kneel and sit).
EEO Statement:
UES is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to recruit the most qualified candidates. Please see our full EEO Statement at the bottom of the page here