Industrial Safety Specialist

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet.

With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of 3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary Provide hands-on industrial safety support across manufacturing areas that produce acrylic and glass aircraft transparency products for civil and military platforms, ensuring employees and contractors follow safe work practices and control high-risk tasks at the point of work.

Inspect work areas, coach employees and supervisors, verify safety controls, support incident investigations, and maintain required records for occupational safety programs including IIPP, hazard communication, LOTO, hot work, machine guarding, PPE, respiratory protection, forklift/mobile equipment, ergonomics, and emergency readiness. Help translate California, local, federal, aerospace customer, and site-specific EH&S requirements into practical daily behaviors for vertically integrated acrylic casting/forming, solvent bonding, coatings, machining, optical finishing, glass processing, and maintenance activities.

Job Responsibilities
1. Daily Safety Field Execution Conduct planned and unplanned safety inspections across acrylic casting, forming, bonding, coating, machining, glass fabrication, maintenance, warehousing, laboratory, and utility areas.

Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors; coach employees and supervisors in real time; document findings; assign corrective actions; and verify closure.

Participate in daily tier meetings, shift start-ups, Gemba walks, area audits, and pre-job briefs to reinforce safety expectations and hazard awareness.

Exercise stop-work authority and immediately escalate imminent danger, uncontrolled chemical hazards, serious machine-guarding deficiencies, or life-safety concerns.
2. California, Local, and Federal Compliance Support Support implementation of Cal/OSHA Title 8 and OSHA general industry requirements including IIPP, LOTO, machine guarding, hazard communication, PPE, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, powered industrial trucks, fall prevention, emergency action/fire prevention, and ergonomic controls.

Maintain inspection logs, training records, safety observations, incident files, corrective-action evidence, equipment checklists, and other records required for agency or customer audit readiness.

Assist with agency inspection preparation and corrective-action follow-up involving Cal/OSHA, Orange County Health Care Agency CUPA, Orange County Fire Authority, City of Garden Grove authorities, South Coast AQMD, DTSC, EPA, or wastewater/stormwater stakeholders when safety controls overlap with hazardous materials or process changes.

Perform field checks for chemical storage, secondary containment, labeling, emergency equipment, eyewash/showers, flammable cabinets, compressed gas cylinders, waste staging interfaces, and spill response readiness.
3. High-Risk Work and Manufacturing Process Controls Support industrial hygiene monitoring activities for MMA, VOCs, coating constituents, dust, respirable crystalline silica/glass particulates where applicable, noise, heat, and other exposures.

Verify LOTO planning and execution for machines, autoclaves, ovens, presses, mixers,…