Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator

Arcosa Wind Towers is looking for an Environmental & Safety Coordinator I to join our Belen, NM team. In this position you will ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, county & local safety related regulations. In a proactive manner, plans, directs, and implements the company’s safety program to ensure a safe, healthy, and injury/accident-free work environment. This role reports directly to the Safety Manager.

Belen, NM

• In partnership with plant management, plan, lead and participate in plant safety meetings
• Assist in training, educating and ensuring supervisors can run safety meetings on their own
• Review and update monthly plant-specific safety metrics
• Develop and ensure safe equipment operating techniques. Partner with the maintenance team to ensure all machines and equipment are in good condition
• Lead safety on-boarding meetings with all employees and sub-contractors. Review all applicable documentation for completeness to ensure all employees and sub-contractors can adequately execute their scope of work safely
• Follow up with supervisors and sub-contractor representatives to ensure proper disciplinary procedures are followed for safety issues. Serve as principal source of information on safety issues to hold supervisors and sub-contractor reps accountable o safety policies, procedures, and programs
• Implement, inspect, and maintain job site and office SDS manuals. Train employees in SDS procedures
• Provide and ensure compliance with information, signs, posters, barriers, and other materials to warn of potential and actual safety hazards and to prevent access to hazardous conditions
• Work with injured employees, supervisors, and HR to facilitate return to full duty work responsibilities and provide meaningful light duty transitional work opportunities
• Ensures the implementation, administration, and maintenance of all facility specific EHS programs
• Initiates, documents, and monitors corrective actions for adherence to safety systems
• Manages all EHS continuous improvements initiatives relating to OSHA, EPA, and best management practices
• Keeps the facility management team informed of safety concerns and leading EHS metrics
• Leads EHS specific initiatives as it pertains to ESG
• Participate in and facilitate the Safety Committee at the facility to ensure the committee’s effectiveness and direction is aligned with the facility’s expectations
• Inspect facility to detect existing potential accident and health hazards
• Determine corrective or preventative measures, assign responsibility, and follow up to ensure the corrective measures have been implemented
• Conduct periodic plant safety inspections to ensure safety procedures are in place
• Analyze accident causes, and hazards, and implement solutions to resolve any deficiencies
• Update and maintain the site-specific disaster plan. Periodically train employees in proper procedures and conduct periodic emergency evacuation drills to ensure planning is effective in practice. Employees should know the placement of all fire extinguishers and first aid kits
• Assist with the establishment of additional PPE requirements based on the job-specific requirements
• Ensure compliance with worker’s compensation including working with risk management team, third party administrators, legal counsel, to effectively investigate and resolve claims in an expeditious and cost-effective manner
• Maintain a proactive fitness-for-duty process with local occupational medical clinics
• Plan and implement programs to train supervisors and employees in plant safety practices, safe equipment operating techniques, and fire prevention for the plant and office area
• Facilitate employee training in first aid and CPR
• Maintain training records in employee files
• Ensure new…