Description
About Austin Industrial
Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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.
To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial .
Safety Technician
Responsibilities for developing and implementing safety policies, conducting training, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment. Construction: With high-risk tasks like working at heights, heavy machinery operation and managing hazardous materials, construction companies require rigorous safety oversight. Manufacturing: Factories and production facilities have complex machinery and operational hazards. Safety managers ensure that production lines are not only efficient but also safe. Oil and Gas: In an industry known for its high risks, safety managers implement strict protocols to prevent accidents and environmental hazards. Transportation and Utilities: These sectors face challenges such as hazardous materials, extreme weather conditions and evolving regulatory standards that require vigilant safety management.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Select and assign staff to separate roles, ensuring equal opportunities inhiring and in promotion.
Prepare and maintain records, reports, and formulate correspondencerelative to the job.
Monitor and organize special studies and/or analysis of safety programsand policies/procedures.
Organize and take part in assessing already existing safetyprograms and policies, assessing accident/injury reports, and arrangingaccident/injury-related statistics.
Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the needarises. Recommend solutions to issues, prevention measures, and otheravenues for improvement.
Identify the training and development needs of company staff.
Coordinate various activities like scheduling work assignments,monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting clear priorities.
Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to find out possibleunsafe conditions.
Collaborate with company medical services unit to provide andorganize emergency services for injured and/or sick staff.
Establish target areas and long-term accident prevention and cost control goals.
Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are boundto have effect on the organization.
Function as a representative of the company when it comes to society orindustry safety programs.
Regularly provide training and coaching across all staff levels as requiredby the government's safety rules and regulations.
Make sure that new employees are well-informed as regards safetyinstructions before they start work, emphasize, and explain anyform of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions.
Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis at workplacethat ensures calmness.
A good safety manager must be someone who pays attention to thesmallest of details to prevent accidents and/or injuries.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills. This is toenable relevant information about different situations to be properly and necessary actions.
Must possess and display an elevated level of organizational and coordinatingabilities at all times.
He/she must be someone that is able to prioritize tasks (especially in thecase of always putting safety first)
Must possess the power of persuasion. Most times it is not enough to beable to communicate but to also do so in an effective manner. In theprocess of explaining safety policies, good persuasion skills are to pass the message across properly.
Possess BS or BA in safety management or in any other related field ofstudy, while an MS will be an added advantage.
Recognized certification(s) in risk management and safety/healthmanagement.
Other duties as assigned.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Experience - 4 years of maintenance and construction safety experience.
Certification/License : A valid Driver's License and CSST/NCCER
Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.
Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.
Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
See the "Know Your Rights" poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\EEOC\KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088\EEOC\KnowYourRightsSp6.12.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
OSHA 10
NCCER-Safety Tech
Valid Driver's License
Preferred
OSHA 30
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.
