Description
About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.
Safety Manager
Responsibilities for developing and implementing safety policies, conducting training, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Select and assign staff to different roles, ensuring equal opportunities in hiring and in promotion
Prepare and maintain records, reports, and formulate correspondence relative to the job
Monitor and organize special studies and/or analysis of safety programs and policies/procedures
Organize and also take part in assessing already existing safety programs and policies; assessing accident/injury reports, and arranging accident/injury-related statistics
Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the need arises. Recommend solutions to issues, prevention measures, and other avenues for improvement
Identify the training and development needs of company staff, and also ensure that the needs are met
Coordinate various activities like scheduling of work assignments, monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting of clear priorities
Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to finding out possible unsafe conditions
Work hand-in-hand with company medical services unit to provide and organize emergency services for injured and/or sick staff
Establish target areas and long term accident prevention and costcontrol goals
Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are bound to have effect on the organization
Act as a representative of the company when it comes to society or industry safety programs
Regularly provide training and coaching across all staff levels as required by the government's safety rules and regulations
Make sure that new employees are well-informed as regards safety instructions before they start work, and also emphasize and explain any form of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions
Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis situation at workplace that ensures calmness.
Other duties as assigned.
Safety Manager Requirements - Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
A good safety manager must be someone who pays attention to the smallest of details so as to prevent accidents and/or injuries
Good communication and interpersonal skills are required. This is to enable relevant information about different situations to be processed properly and necessary actions to be taken
He/she must be able to work as a team member or even a team leader when needed to do so
Must possess and display a high level of organizational and coordinating abilities at all times
Must have good leadership skills and also exhibit an exceptional level of motivational abilities
He/she must be someone that is able to prioritize tasks (especially in the case of putting safety first at all times)
A good manager in charge of safety must be proactive at all times. He/she must be willing and able to tackle issues head-on.
Must possess the power of persuasion. Most times it isn't enough to be able to communicate but to also do so in an effective manner. In the process of explaining safety policies, good persuasion skills are needed to pass the message across properly
Possess BS or BA in safety management or in any other related field of study, while an MS will be an added advantage
A certified safety professional status is required
Recognized certification(s) in risk management and safety/health management
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Qualifications Required for this Position :
Education - no minimum education requirements.
Experience - At least 3 years of working experience as a safety management
Certification/License : A valid Driver's License, TWIC Card, and CSST/NCCER
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
See the "Know Your Rights" poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\EEOC\KnowYourRights\10\20.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\EEOC\KnowYourRightsSp\10\20.pdf) .
See the "Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision" poster available in English (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp\%20English\formattedESQA508c.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp\formatted\Spanish2-27-18ESQA508c.pdf) .
No Third-Party Inquiries Please
This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.
Accessibility Note
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.
Qualifications
Licenses & Certifications
Required
Valid Driver's License
Experience
Required
4 years: 4 years of maintenance and construction safety experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.
For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
