Occupational Safety Specialist

Salary Range: $102,000 - $152,000 (Salary commensurate with experience)

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 29 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 154 sites in 27 countries throughout the world.

INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Our businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

The INEOS Oligomers division includes a wide range of products ranging from LAO, PAO and PIB to Specialty Oligomers, iso-paraffines, cyclopentane and isoamylene which are made in Europe and in the Americas and sold worldwide.

With LAO manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO).

LAO is used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant.

As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers invested $500 million in a new world scale LAO & PAO production facility located in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas.

Occupational safety specialist will analyze many types of work environments and work procedures. The Specialist will inspect workplaces for adherence to regulations on safety, health, and the environment. In addition, the incumbent will design programs to prevent disease or injury to workers and damage to the environment.

Program Development and Implementation:
Develop, implement and oversee execution of written programs to ensure site compliance and sustainability. Interpretation and implementation of Federal OSHA and industry recognized safety regulations and standards.

Developing and maintaining management information systems which identify potential hazards in all facilities.

Interaction with Federal, State and Local regulatory authorities regarding all Environmental and Sustainability matters, including inspections, audits, recordkeeping, NOV (Notice Of Violation) resolution, normal reporting obligations, surveys and other issues

• Monitor and analyse EH&S Data and calculate metrics and key performance indicators. Monitor and maintain databases to ensure data is accurate and current
• Provide quality assurance and oversight on safety programs and systems including, OSHA compliance, Safety Committees, Audit Reports etc.
• Problem solving including anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace conditions that may cause workers' injury or illness through chemical, physical, ergonomic, or biological exposures.
• Lead internal partners to develop and maintain EH&S Scorecards
• Collect data and participate in annual OSHA Reporting
• Support EH&S communications to include safety meeting development and distribution, Risk Alerts, etc.
• Provide administrative support for web based safety systems
• Use problem solving skills to detect hazardous working conditions and safety problems; check equipment and/or work area regularly. Report or correct unsafe working conditions; make a wide range of recommendations and/or improves safety procedures; enforce safety regulations and procedures as appropriate to role.
• Monitor safety issues after taking corrective action and ensure continued compliance.
• Develop corrective action plans to respond to internal/external audits, inspections and incidents.
• Lead environmental, health and safety audits.
• Review and or author work plans and Job Hazard Analysis daily as part of the operational work team support.
• Maintain and analyze basic records and provide reports on compliance performance to internal customers.
• Recognize the wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the…