Safety Coordinator

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

In 1925 the J. G. Boswell Company planted in California's San Joaquin Valley and grew to become one of the largest farmers in the world. Boswell produces, processes, and markets tomatoes, Pima cotton, and pistachios. The company has taken its farming tradition and enhances it through innovations in every step of the growing process and has developed many of the new techniques and equipment used in modern farming today.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Safety Coordinator plans, organizes, coordinates, and helps implement comprehensive safety programs and activities; assists with safety training requirements; inspects facilities/departments for safety compliance; and performs a variety of administrative tasks to support our Department Leadership Teams across the company. A goal for this position is to help provide more safety program administrative support for our Leadership Team to improve regulatory compliance, help identify improvement opportunities, communicate and track corrective action items.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/DUTIES:

• Works closely with our leadership team as an administrative resource to facilitate compliance with our Injury and Illness Prevention Program, Safety Participation Program, safety inspections, pressure vessel permits, DMV records, etc. to assure compliance.
• Supports Corporate Safety Department with program administration, compliance management, documentation, updating, training, scheduling, and key performance indicator (KPI) tracking.
• Manages our DMV Pull Notice Program daily by monitoring, tracking, updating, and distributing information.
• Manages our Fleet Management GPS tracking system daily and works with our leadership team to help improve employee driving behaviors.
• Manages the administrative duties for our Pressure Vessel Permit Program in Intelex.
• Manages the administrative duties for our Safety Participation Program.
• Manages our Hearing Conservation Testing at the sites.
• Schedules Driver Safety and other trainings to help the Safety Specialists.
• Conducts safety inspections and Behavioral Based Safety Observations.
• Conducts incident investigations for Near Miss or First Aid cases.
• Assists with document translation to Spanish.
• Conducts safety training in English and Spanish.
• Manages the updating of our Workplace Postings and 300A logs at the sites.
• Provides safety support, information, and PPE to operations personnel.
• Assists with other safety related duties as necessary.
• Responsible for performing all job requirements in a safe manner and being a proactive safety role model for co-workers.
• Responsible for completing all duties in a timely manner.
• Responsible for following instructions and managing time efficiently.
• Responsible for completing all duties with minimal supervision.
• Other duties as assigned.

OTHER SKILLS/DUTIES:

• Team Oriented
• Self-Motivated
• Personally Responsible/Credible
• Computer Literate; basic knowledge MS Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and capable of learning other software
• Communication Proficiency
• Technical Capacity
• Bilingual - English & Spanish
• Candidate must be self-motivated

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to operate standard office equipment, computers, telephone system, scanner/copier.
• Must have a good driving record that meets Company Driver Safety Policy requirements

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma/GED. A.A. or A.S. degree preferred.
• 1 - 2 years experienced in administrative program or office management.

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES:

N/A

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

This job operates in a professional office environment and includes outdoor responsibilities. While performing some duties of this job, the employee may work around pesticides, chemicals, airborne particles, or moving machinery and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. Employee will travel in a company vehicle between Corcoran and Bakersfield to various sites as needed to perform duties.

This position will be supported by the Corporate Safety Department Team.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Pay Range: $18-$20/hr

J. G. Boswell Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any
Kind; all qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical condition, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.