Safety Coordinator - Eastern Region; Portland, Gresham, Oregon

Safety Coordinator
- Eastern Region (Portland, Gresham, Oregon City)

In this role, you'll design, develop, implement and oversee the organization's safety programs to safeguard employees, contractors and the public and to ensure compliance with laws, standards and regulations.

Typical work hours are Monday
- Friday 6:30am - 3:00pm except during incident management team activation. This role supports line operations located in Portland, Gresham, and Oregon City, where you will rotate daily to lead 6:30am and 7am safety meetings. This role requires on-site presence with the opportunity to work from home on occasion. This role is required to participate in our 24/7 safety duty phone coverage with duty phone responsibilities about once every five weeks.

Senior Safety Specialist 6145 Grade 7

Career Level:

P3

Safety Specialist 6147 Grade 6

Career Level:

P2

Career Professional Requires in-depth knowledge and experience Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions Works independently, receives minimal guidance Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

• During project constructability reviews and construction planning for contractors, details safety risk analysis and solutioning to complex construction activities (RFP's, bidder qualifications, bid evaluations and selection of the performing contractors).
• Conducts routine and complex investigations including incident reviews and root cause analysis.
• Develops and runs reports.
• Analyzes trends and prepares and presents presentations and communications.
• Coordinates and lead follow up on action items related to reports and investigations.
• Leads process improvement projects, conducts benchmarking efforts and assists in identifying improvement efforts.

• Develops and administers safety programs, guidelines and initiatives to meet business objectives and comply with all relevant state and/or federal laws and regulations. Integrates industry best practices into existing programs.
• Development and continuous improvement of an ongoing interactive safety program and partnership with contractors.

• Serves as a subject matter expert to managers and employees.
• Analyzes business needs and develops and implements innovative solutions to safety-related business problems.
• In collaboration with other departments, designs and delivers educational programs to managers, employees and/or community organizations on employee and public safety.

• Under general guidance, leads special projects to meet corporate objectives engaging closely with other departments.
• Facilitates safety meetings and other safety processes.
• Depending on position may assume leadership roles in emergency and incident response.
• Develop and increase communication between PGE and its contractors to share and operationalize best practices and learnings.

• May respond to requests for information from regulators.
• Prepares legally required filings and reports.
• Ensures programs, policies, and procedures comply with applicable laws and regulations.
• Analyzes changes in regulations and recommends and implements appropriate action.

Education:

Requires a bachelor's degree in science, business, human resources or other related field or equivalent experience.

Experience:

Typically, five or more years in professional safety and/or in electric generation, transmission and distribution operations; or, depending on position, drug and alcohol or ergonomic program management.

Certifications, Licenses and Training:
Journeyman card or equivalent trade or operator qualification preferred. Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Construction Safety & Health Technician (CHST), Occupational Health & Safety Technologist (OHST), Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP), Certified Occupational Safety Specialist (COSS) preferred depending on position.

Please note that we can consider candidates with less experience (2
-5 years at the professional level
2), duties would be less complex and performed with more supervision. Knowledge, skills and abilities would be at the working/intermediate level. We are happy to provide a detailed job description on request.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Intermediate knowledge of employment laws related to area of discipline
• Intermediate knowledge of PGE's policies, procedures, collective bargaining agreements and benefit plans
• Intermediate knowledge of industry best practices related to area of discipline
• Intermediate skills in project management
• Advanced skills in writing reports Intermediate skills in facilitation and presentations Intermediate skills in systems and programs used in functional area, including data retrieval
• Advanced customer focus skills.
• Advanced safety leadership skills
• Intermediate skills in analytical thinking
• Advanced skills in problem solving
• Advanced oral and written…