Senior Safety Specialist

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Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at are searching for the best talent for Senior Safety Specialist to be located at San Lorenzo PR.

The Senior Safety Specialist provides technical expertise on safety and occupational health matters. Will assist with the establishment maintenance and improvement of robust processes to identify evaluate mitigate and control risk at workplace and environment. Evaluate plan and implement appropriate occupational safety and occupational health program components including development and delivery of training materials. Leads all safety health matters at the plant. Support managing of ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 Certification processes as requested. Drives progress of management action plans completion providing technical support to ensure corporate business franchise and site goals are delivered. Ensures all EHS related records and equipment is properly maintained prepared and submitted in a timely manner. Facilitate EHS audits and inspections recommendations and process improvements.

You will be responsible for:

• Support projects identifying potential risk and leading implementation of appropriate control measures.

• Lead a comprehensive fire and explosion hazard identification/risk assessment open flame processes and classified areas including inspection testing and maintenance programs for critical fire safety equipment including container integrity air-monitoring instruments bonding and grounding devices alarms and sprinkler systems and portable fire extinguishers.

• Maintain a process for conducting a risk assessment for machine guarding to ensure that the performance of safety controls for newly acquired machinery is proportional to the risks as determined by use of the risk graph provided in ISOs Safety of Machinery standard.

• Establish implement and maintain a written Hazardous Energy Control Program to protect personnel from unexpected startup dangerous movement of machinery or equipment during service maintenance cleaning or repair.

• Establish implement and maintain appropriate electrical safe work practices in accordance with local requirements to utilize insulated tools and require electrical personal protective equipment based on the electrical hazards and risks at the facility.

• Lead a Fall Prevention Site Assessment to identify the potential slip trip and fall hazards of the facility and to evaluate the risks associated with the identified hazards and create Establish implement and maintain a written Permit-to-Work system - formally authorized proficient and suitably trained to issue work permits such as hot work electrical work at heights confined spaces.

• Establish implement and maintain a written Confined Space Entry Program (CSEP) and a facility-wide survey to identify and inventory all confined spaces including establishing implementing and maintaining a formal rescue plan for each Permit Required Confined Space (PRCS) entry. Establish implement and maintain a formal rescue plan to deal with non-routine working at heights situations.

• Act as an Alternate Incident Commander on the ERT; Develop implement and maintain an upto-date emergency response plan based on the outcomes of the risk assessments to minimize the potential effects of an accident or emergency on human health the environment and the business both on and off site.

• Lead simulations to evaluate the proficiency of onsite emergency responders and training for capacitation.

• Active participation with Human Resources and Occupational Health for Medical Case Management Process to ensure accurate response and recordkeeping requirements are met.

• Assists with the development of an approach to safety occupational health and ergonomic issues with regulatory requirements and J&J Standards.

• Coordinates and performs internal audits periodically to assess systems/process efficiency

• As requested lead EHS Integrated Owners of Safety Systems (IOSS) team. Coordinates meetings and assures teams efficiency.

• Attend annual HAZWOPER RCRA and DOT/IATA as required.

• Follow all environmental safety and occupational health policies (i.e. ISO14001 & ISO 45001)

Qualifications / Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelors Degree is required. A Masters Degree is preferred.

• A minimum of six (6) years related experience in Medical Devices & Diagnostics Pharmaceutical and/or Consumer industry is required.

• Administrative (supervision) experience is preferred

• Availability to work various schedules which may include 1st 2nd 3rd shifts and/or 12-hour daily shifts including weekends and holidays.

• Fully bilingual speaks and write in English and Spanish

• Good oral and written communication skills

• Able to walk constantly around the facilities

• Capable of lifting objects during inspections

• Six Sigma Green Certification preferred

• This position may require a 10% of domestic and/or international travel

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation external applicants please contact us via internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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