Safety Manager - Austin Industrial (Plaquemine, LA)

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial.

Safety Manager

Responsibilities for developing and implementing safety policies, conducting training, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Select and assign staff to different 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 also 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, and also

ensure that the needs are met

• Coordinate various activities like scheduling of work assignments,

monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting of clear priorities

• Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to finding out possible

unsafe conditions

• Work hand-in-hand 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 costcontrol goals
• Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are bound

to have effect on the organization

• Act 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, and also emphasize and explain any

form of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions

• Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis situation at workplace

that ensures calmness.

• 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

Safety Manager Requirements - Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• A good safety manager must be someone who pays attention to the

smallest of details so as to prevent accidents and/or injuries

• Good communication and interpersonal skills are required. This is to

enable relevant information about different situations to be processed

properly and necessary actions to be taken

• He/she must be able to work as a team member or even a team leader

when needed to do so

• Must possess and display a high level of organizational and coordinating

abilities at all times

• Must have good leadership skills and also exhibit an exceptional level of

motivational abilities

• He/she must be someone that is able to prioritize tasks (especially in the

case of putting safety first at all times)

• A good manager in charge of safety must be proactive at all times.

He/she must be willing and able to tackle issues head-on.

• Must possess the power of persuasion. Most times it isn't 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 needed

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

• A certified safety professional status is required
• Recognized certification(s) in risk management and safety/health

management

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education - no minimum education requirements.

Experience - At least 4 years of working experience as a safety management

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

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

See the "Know Your Rights" poster available in English and Spanish.

See the "Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision" poster available in English and Spanish.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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