DC Safety Specialist

Safety Specialist

Fleet Pride is the largest after-market distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts in the U.S. Partner with the best in the heavy-duty industry and apply today!

The Safety Specialist, reporting to Manager, EHS & Compliance, works with DC leadership, and employees to support and enforce policies that protect employees and keep the work environment safe and compliant. The DC Safety Specialist conducts inspections, supports accident investigations, owns, and facilitates safety training, and helps define the safety culture of the organization. Safety Specialists also ensure that safety-related training records, accident reports and other documents are completed and filed appropriately.

The successful candidate will be a driven, solutions based, self-starter. They will be the driving force to ensure the facility is maintained in accordance with OSHA requirements, as well as supporting and enforcing policies that ensure a safe and compliant workplace.

• Assist in implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the workplace to ensure compliance with Company Safety policies to provide a safe and secure workplace for employees, visitors, vendors, and guests.
• Manage multiple, complex, and essential safety projects from conception to implementation.
• Perform work task Risk Assessments and develop safety standard work in conjunction with associates.
• Complete ergonomic assessments on job tasks, incorporating findings into applicable Standard Work.
• Creates, supports, and implements strategies to establish and improve safety compliance.
• Coordinate with any outside emergency agency, Fire, Police, Sheriff, OSHA, etc. Develops, evaluates and recommends process and equipment changes and improvements to maximize safety and improve environmental impacts of operations.
• Act as Emergency Response leader in the case of chemical spills, fire, serious injuries and other unplanned emergency events.
• Act as the point of contact and lead the efforts for any regulatory visits such as OSHA, Fire Marshal etc..
• Evaluate jobs and build out JHA and JSA programs. Chair the site Safety Committee.

• Bias for Action:
  Evaluate, act and communicate in a timely manner.
• Decision Making:
  Make timely, practical, and effective decisions using facts, data, and logic to support your reasoning.
• Monitoring:
  Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself and other individuals and organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Influence:
  The ability to produce positive outcomes through others by communicating, training, and coaching.
• Sound Judgment:
  Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Conflict Management:
  Ability to effectively resolve high stress situations by understanding all sides of a problem and working with others to develop the best solutions.
• Communicating:
  Deliver information to others in an effective and appropriate manner.
• Active Learning:
  Understanding the implication of gathering new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Time Management:
  Managing one's own time and the time of others to ensure all goals are met.
• Analysis:
  Ability to use reporting and mathematics to identify and solve problems.
• Critical Thinking:
  Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Coordination:
  Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

• Integrity:
  Acting with morals and ethics in all circumstances and maintaining utmost confidentiality
• Oral Expression:
  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Oral Comprehension:
  The ability to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension:
  The ability to understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Written Expression:
  The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Originality:
  The ability to come up with new and different ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Complex Problem Solving:
  Identifying…