Health Safety Coordinator - Bilingual Spanish

Health Safety Coordinator - Bilingual Spanish

Location:

Pedricktown, NJ, US

Date Posted: 09-02-2026

Experience:

Senior Level

Salary: $30 - $40 per hour

Job Details

The Health & Safety Coordinator serves as the site subject matter expert and leader for health, safety and security programs at the Pedricktown Processing Facility. This position is responsible for driving a proactive safety culture, ensuring OSHA compliance, leading incident prevention initiatives, managing site security programs, and influencing operational leaders to achieve safety performance and culture. The Health and Safety Coordinator role provides leadership through coaching, auditing, incident investigations, risk assessments, training and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce injuries, strengthen security controls.

Health and Safety Compliance:
Serve as the facility expert on OSHA regulations and corporate EHS requirements. Develop, implement and sustain programs that ensure regulatory compliance while driving continuous improvement beyond minimum regulatory standards. Lead OSHA recordkeeping, compliance reporting, inspections and regulatory interactions.

Documentation:
Creates, modifies, and maintains Health and Safety procedures and program documentation with traceability for version control, keeping workers and Management informed of the program, process, changes and new requirements. Manages all onsite contractor processes in accordance with requirements.

Inspections:
Performs all Health and Safety inspections on a regular basis, making recommendations for continuous improvement. Research materials, equipment or supplies to remediate potential hazards in a proactive way. Reports anomalies immediately to site Management and the health and safety department. Implements and oversees the Behavioral Based Observation program, critical control checks (energized machinery, hot work, and warehouse and material handling equipment.).

Investigations:
Lead investigations involving injuries, illnesses, property damage, environmental events, security incidents and near misses utilizing root cause analysis methodologies. Develop corrective and preventive actions, assign accountability, track completion and verify effectiveness.

Workplace Hazardous Materials:
Partners with the Site Management to maintain up to date hazardous materials, awareness and training and Material Safety Data Sheet (SDS) compliance, under the Globally Harmonized System (GHS).

Certifications:

Ensures all certification, inspection, servicing requirements are maintained in accordance with current legislation, including fire certification and compliance, seeks quotations as required and makes recommendations to the site management team.

Internal Safety Program Audit:
Implements and conducts regular internal audits and recommends improvements to comply with all Health & Safety regulations.

Emergency Response:
Creates and updates Fire Safety Plan, Emergency Response Plan, organizes and evaluates regular evacuation drills and recommends corrective action for improvements, maintains first aid action plan and communications. Oversees monthly fire extinguisher checks. Organizes annual safety shoe truck and audiometric program. Assists with first aid administration and injured worker claim management.

Risk Assessment:
Assists with evaluating existing Risk Assessment and Control Matrix, makes recommendations for improvements and communicates to all parties

Ergonomics:
Understands ergonomics and can assess risks, recommend alternative work methods, liaise with external parties to implement equipment or revised processes that eliminate or reduce bodily strain and injuries. Coaches employees on ergonomics as needed.

Reporting:
Regularly reports health and safety stats to Health, Safety, Security & Continuous Improvement Manager for inclusion in Period End Reports.

Training:
Creates and conducts regular Safety Talks, new hire and contractor safety awareness training and sign off, and conducts and records all training in database/Alchemy Training System. Recommends and registers external safety training courses for key personnel and tracks completion and renewal dates. Creates, trains, and updates Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Provides support for programs such as LOTO, Hazard Communication, Emergency Response, Respiratory Protection, Hearing Conservation, etc.

Customer Service:
Provides support that is collaborative, valued, knowledgeable, and timely. Acts as…