Senior Safety & Health Specialist; Senior, Senior , or Principal

Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC) is seeking a
Senior Safety & Health Specialist (Senior, Senior A, or Principal)to be based in our Aiken, SC location on the Savannah River Site (SRS).

This is a multilevel posting. Candidate(s) selected to receive an offer will be offered the position level commensurate with their experience and qualifications.

The Senior Safety & Health Specialist (Senior, Senior A, or Principal) will provide support and oversight of 3 unique DOE facilities: a new operational chemical facility processing radioactive active waste (SWPF), an industrial wastewater treatment facility (ETF), and a saltstone grout production and disposal facility (SPF). SRMC is seeking an experienced individual that understands and can apply general industry safety regulations to real world processing facility operations.

The individual is expected to be a leader integrated into a team of safety and IH professionals.

The
Senior Safety & Health Specialist(Senior, Senior A, or Principal)monitors, analyzes, and investigates workplace activities and potential hazards to support company initiatives within assigned area or facility(s) through review of work packages, assessments, walk downs, inspections, and/or observations. Identifies hazardous workplace conditions and removes hazards and/or protects employees by guarding, revising work procedures, and training or requiring use of protective clothing and personal protective equipment.

Responsible for identifying and mitigating hazardous conditions that affect workers, property, the environment, and the general public. Takes effective steps to ensure that workplace conditions comply with applicable federal, state, local and organization occupational safety and health standards, ensuring that all required records are prepared and maintained. Prepares and delivers reports and inputs information into database applications as required.

• A Senior Safety & Health Specialist:
  • Assumes technical responsibility for one or more related phases of the Safety and Health (S&H) Program within assigned area.
  • Evaluates proposals and makes recommendations based on proposed projects/tasks.
  • Assists design teams to identify safety and health specifications and design requirements of low to moderate risk work packages and educates, observes, and ensures all personnel are performing work in compliance within an assigned area.
  • Performs conventional practices of S&H by anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling occupational hazards in the workplace through job scope reviews, walk downs, and general observations.
  • Investigates accidents, injuries, and complaints concerning hazards in assigned area and responsible for compiling and providing documentation from investigation.
  • Conducts facility and self-assessments as assigned.
  • Supports emergency response drills and regularly attends Local Safety Improvement Team (LSIT) meetings to provide guidance and support.
  • Demonstrates considerable knowledge and understating of company and industry specific regulatory requirements/standards.
  • Assists more senior personnel in the development, implementation, and maintenance of safety and health programs, systems, and procedures.
  • Researches innovative techniques, materials, equipment to implement into company, ensuring the quality of programs.
  • Supports the preparation and review of written programs, job hazard analyses, personal protective equipment assessments and other health and safety program elements as requested.
  • Promotes compliance with required Experience Modification Rate (EMR), Total Recordable Case (TRC) and Days Away Restricted or Transferred (DART) established goals.
  • Serves as a company Subject Matter Expert of a specific S&H program.
  • Other duties as…