Safety Technician- Austin Industrial (Phoenix,AZ

Safety Technician

Responsibilities for developing and implementing safety policies, conducting training, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment. Construction:
With high-risk tasks like working at heights, heavy machinery operation and managing hazardous materials, construction companies require rigorous safety oversight. Manufacturing:
Factories and production facilities have complex machinery and operational hazards. Safety managers ensure that production lines are not only efficient but also safe. Oil and Gas:
In an industry known for its high risks, safety managers implement strict protocols to prevent accidents and environmental hazards. Transportation and Utilities:
These sectors face challenges such as hazardous materials, extreme weather conditions and evolving regulatory standards that require vigilant safety management.

Specific

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Select and assign staff to separate roles, ensuring equal opportunities in hiring and in promotion.
• Prepare and maintain records, reports, and formulate correspondence relative to the job.
• Monitor and organize special studies and/or analysis of safety programs and policies/procedures.
• Organize and take part in assessing already existing safety programs and policies, assessing accident/injury reports, and arranging accident/injury-related statistics.
• Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the need arises. Recommend solutions to issues, prevention measures, and other avenues for improvement.
• Identify the training and development needs of company staff.
• Coordinate various activities like scheduling work assignments, monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting clear priorities.
• Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to find out possible unsafe conditions.
• Collaborate with company medical services unit to provide and organize emergency services for injured and/or sick staff.
• Establish target areas and long-term accident prevention and cost control goals.
• Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are bound to have effect on the organization.
• Function as a representative of the company when it comes to society or industry safety programs.
• Regularly provide training and coaching across all staff levels as required by the government's safety rules and regulations.
• Make sure that new employees are well-informed as regards safety instructions before they start work, emphasize, and explain any form of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions.
• Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis at workplace that ensures calmness.
• A good safety manager must be someone who pays attention to the smallest of details to prevent accidents and/or injuries.

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. This is to enable relevant information about different situations to be properly and necessary actions.
• Must possess and display an elevated level of organizational and coordinating abilities at all times.
• He/she must be someone that is able to prioritize tasks (especially in the case of always putting safety first)
• Must possess the power of persuasion. Most times it is not enough to be able to communicate but to also do so in an effective manner. In the process of explaining safety policies, good persuasion skills are to pass the message across properly.
• Possess BS or BA in safety management or in any other related field of study, while an MS will be an added advantage.
• Recognized certification(s) in risk management and safety/health management.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience – 4 years of maintenance and construction safety experience.

Certification/License: A valid Driver's License and CSST/NCCER

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit, stand,…