Safety Technician - Monticello, AR

Candidate will assist in maintaining a safety culture within the company to eliminate injuries, reduce worker's compensation costs, improve safety performance and awareness, and sustain compliance with OSHA and MSHA regulations.

• Must Follow ALL OSHA, company, and job site safety rules
• Must be able to provide technical assistance and coaching to employees
• Ensure personnel wear required safety equipment
• Educate and correct PPE infractions
• Perform hand and power tool inspections
• Assure safe working environment on mill property by conducting weekly safety and housekeeping audits
• Perform constant observation of surroundings to identify hazards and mitigate those hazards
• Provide support during ES&H audits and assessments
• Assure JSA's are performed and follow company and OSHA standards
• Audit, track, and organize Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
• Perform and submit all safety audits on assigned maintenance tasks during mill operations, shutdowns and outages to Safety/HR Manager
• Inspect confined spaces, hot work permits and work site compliance
• Manage and conduct all aspects of "Toolbox Talks" for crews
• Create lessons learned and best practices with construction team
• Backup for evacuation checklist
• Participate in all incident investigations
• Issue equipment as needed
• Assist with training and orientation
• Assist with any safety concerns as needed
• Alert Safety Manager and/or Safety Coordinator of any dangerous conditions
• Perform calibration of equipment and inventory used in conducting air monitoring
• Perform fit test for respirators and gas monitoring
• Educate personnel on the use of fire extinguishers and hot work procedures

• Bachelor's Degree in a safety related field preferred and/or minimum of 3-5 years of construction field safety experience
• OSHA 30 certification
• Technical knowledge and competencies appropriate to position such as ES&H Policy, work planning, and hazard identification and control
• Must have well developed analytical skills
• Experience in establishing and monitoring performance goals, targets, objectives and milestones
• Experience in planning and conducting investigations, assessments, and casual analyses that lead to effective and efficient solutions
• Must be detail oriented
• Ability to prioritize when presented with multiple tasks
• Competent person training in Scaffolding, Fall Protection, Trenching, Confined Space, and/or Mobile Equipment is a plus
• Bilingual proficiency in English Spanish translation is a plus