Senior Health & Safety Specialist

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Who are we looking for

Our US East Environmental business is looking for a Senior Health & Safety Specialist to join our Atlanta area team! This is an exciting opportunity for you to provide onsite support within an active manufacturing facility to support our clients needs. The facility is located approximately 40 to 50 miles northwest of Downtown Atlanta and you will need to be able to be at the facility at least 3 days a week.

In this role you will play a pivotal part in developing OSHAcompliant health and safety programs and procedures that span multiple operations and equipment types while also taking the lead on creating detailed lockout/tagout procedures conducting comprehensive job hazard assessments and performing thorough incident investigations. Your work will directly support OSHA reporting requirements program auditing and continuous improvements in client safety performance.

As a trusted partner to our client you will regularly review and refine health and safety programs to ensure ongoing compliance completing routine facility inspections and delivering impactful employee training. You will conduct industrial hygiene surveys including air and noise monitoring and help facilitate safety committee and emergency response team discussions. Your observations and site visit documentation will translate into actionable deliverables that strengthen daytoday safety operations. You may also support environmental compliance data collection and will take on specialized projects that include LOTO procedure development JHA creation and participation in DOT/RCRA seminars.

This is a handson influential position for someone passionate about creating safer workplaces and helping clients achieve their operational goals.

Working with an energetic and high performing team this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Health Safety and Environment: Monitor and review performance against health safety and environment (HSE) key performance indicators (KPIs) and patterns of behavior within the area of responsibility. Take action to improve performance and to resolve noncompliance with the organizations HSE policies procedures and mandatory instructions.
• Project Management: Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues or oversee relationship management with a group of more transactional clients and customers.
• Organizational Capability Building: Use the organizations formal development framework to identify the teams individual development needs. Plan and implement actions including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology policy regulation or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development attending conferences and reading specialist media.
• Analysis of As Is and To Be: Document complex as is and to be processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the to be capability to record accurately the change required.
• Client Issue Diagnosis: Collate and conduct analysis of the tactical and operational information gathered through interviews and research to support the diagnosis of underlying client issues and problems and the design of single solutions.
• Solutions Analysis: Identify and evaluate complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.
• Request for Bid Solicitation/Proposal/Tender Response: Gather information and resources draft and complete proposals and fulfill all process requirements (in terms of deadlines documentation etc.) in response to complex bid solicitations request for proposal and request for tender to create the best chance of being awarded the contract.

What youll bring to the team:

• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Engineering Occupational Health and Safety or a related field of study
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in Health & Safety roles preferably in an industrial or manufacturing setting
• Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or similar certifications are preferred
• Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) preferred
• Certified OSHA 30 Hour trained
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 ISO 45001 OSHA regulations and other relevant standards
• Ability and willingness to work onsite in a manufacturing environment with physical demands (climbing ladders walking/standing on concrete potential respirator use)
• Ability to effectively communicate with the client line supervisors and skilled workers in a manufacturing setting
• Strong technical writing skills
• Bilingual (Korean and/or Spanish) is a plus and a strong differentiator

As a multicultural organization we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race color religion genetic information national origin sex (including same sex) sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions age disability or handicap citizenship status service member status or any other category protected by federal state or local law.

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