Senior Safety Specialist

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven't stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We're always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

As a Senior Safety Specialist, you will have the unique opportunity to design, develop, implement, and oversee PGE's safety programs that safeguard employees and the public while ensuring compliance with laws, standards, and regulations. You will develop and administer comprehensive safety programs that integrate industry best practices, analyze safety trends, conduct complex investigations, and serve as a subject matter expert to managers and employees across the organization.

A successful candidate will have advanced safety leadership skills and problem-solving abilities, combined with intermediate knowledge of employment laws and industry best practices in safety management. Join our team and be at the forefront of creating a culture of safety excellence at one of Oregon's leading utility companies. Your work will directly impact the wellbeing of 900,000 customers and fellow employees while contributing to PGE's mission of providing reliable and sustainable energy services.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting and Analysis Conducts routine and complex investigations. Develops and runs reports. Analyzes trends and prepares presentations and communications. Coordinates follow up on action items related to reports and investigations. Leader in organization safety root cause analysis process.

Program Management Develops, reviews, 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. Develop review process for programs to align organizational processes.

Consultation/ Education 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.

Special Projects Under general guidance, leads special projects to meet corporate objectives engaging closely with other departments. Facilitates safety meetings and other safety processes. Role to assume A leadership role for high energy process development, across the organization to include leading the community of practice, high energy controls assessment (HECA) trainer, and development for future processes. Depending on position may assume leadership roles in emergency and incident response.

Compliance 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.

Communications leader Lead weekly standing safety meeting. To include content creating, invites, and agenda development. Lead organizational communication for safety updates, safety alerts and notices, and distribution of high energy notifications

Education/Experience/Certifications

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 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 Journeyman card or equivalent trade or operator qualification and/or ergonomic certification preferred depending on position

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

Functional Competencies

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

General Competencies

Advanced customer focus skills.

Advanced safety leadership…