Safety Specialist

Ahlstrom; Kaukauna (WI); On-site; USD 69,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in paper manufacturing is seeking a Safety Specialist for their Kaukauna mill. This role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, developing training programs, and transforming the culture of safety within the organization. Candidates should have a background in occupational health and safety regulations, with 2-5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment being preferred. Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage are offered.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Company provided life insurance and short-term disability

Competitive 401(K) plan

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in a manufacturing setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Developing and conducting safety and health programs.
• Performing root-cause analysis investigations related to safety.
• Supporting health services and workers' compensation programs.

Skills

Strong understanding of safety regulations

Communication skills

Education

BA in Occupational Health

Job description

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The Safety Specialist is responsible for achieving optimum health and safety compliance and performance for our Kaukauna mill operations in a manner that meets or exceeds established performance expectations. The Safety Specialist is the key agent in evaluating and developing safety, health, and industrial hygiene programs, along with developing and conducting necessary training, managing required compliance reporting, and overseeing the facility’s Emergency Response Program. The Safety Specialist is also responsible for providing support to our operations leaders and must set the tone for safety accountability with this group.

Key Responsibilities

• Must follow Ahlstrom's manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures, and policies, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
• Walk to the manufacturing floor regularly to establish a Health and Safety presence and provide support.
• Support the Health Services team.
• Provide support in the Workers' Compensation program with an emphasis on process improvement and cost reduction.
• Evaluate, develop, deploy, and monitor safety and health programs, procedures, policies, and standards to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, customer, and Company safety and health standards and requirements.
• Provide support to the manufacturing leadership team in safety compliance, employee ownership, and safety accountability.
• Transform the culture of safety leadership and responsibility from functional leadership to manufacturing ownership and personal accountability.
• Provide focus, direction, leadership, training, and technical expertise to tactical teams and committees, such as the Joint Safety Committee, First Responders, etc.
• Identify, implement, and solidify the best-known preventive/compliance safety and health standards and practices into all operations.
• Develop, implement, and administer an internal safety and health hazard/risk assessment and standards compliance auditing process designed to validate adherence to best-known standards and practices.
• Lead root-cause analysis investigations procedure/process designed to reveal and capture intellectual wisdom from all near-miss and/or failure occurrences. Communicate post-incident and near-miss findings through written and verbal communications and detailed incident investigations.
• Lead continuous improvement processes to identify and eliminate high-risk tasks through review of historical incident data; leading/warning indicators, plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity observations; and other related methods.
• Provide applicable management/agency notification, oversight, interface, and coaching, and serve as the point of contact for all inquiries, communication, and interface with Federal, State, and Local agencies/authorities.
• Ensure safety and health is considered in all appropriate business activities and that safety pre-checks are completed before all facility, equipment, process, technology, and/or raw material modifications/changes.
• Ensure adequate safety and health controls are properly designed, installed, trained, and operating on all equipment.
• All other assignments assigned by management.

Qualifications

• BA in Occupational Health is preferred but not required.
• 2-5 years in a manufacturing setting preferred.
• Strong understanding of safety regulations and communication skills

What we offer

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Company provided life insurance and short-term disability
• Competitive 401(K) plan - eligible to start day one of employment.

Work Schedule and Location

• Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:30 AM - 3:00 PM, must be available for on-call duties, including weekends, and flexible to work outside of regular hours when required

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Manufacturing

• Industries

  Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing

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