Safety Technician (Eastover, SC) - Austin Industrial

Austin Industries, Inc.; Eastover (SC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial is hiring a Safety Technician to execute the site safety program on an assigned project. The role involves educating staff on safety requirements and best practices for incident prevention, while ensuring compliance with company and customer safety policies.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of relevant industrial maintenance and construction experience, a current OSHA 30 card, and the ability to train and coordinate safety across project teams.

Qualifications

• Must be a journeyman Safety Technician with 3 to 5 years of experience.
• Must have current OSHA 30 card/certification.
• Build working relationships with customer representatives, project staff, and subcontractor safety representatives.
• Assist in creating accurate safety reports and accident investigation documents.
• Assist in staff safety training and subcontractor development.
• Represent company in a positive and professional manner with the customer and subcontractors.
• Create and facilitate safety trainings and orientations aligned with project specifics and schedules.
• Ensure compliance with the company’s current safety manual, policies and expectations.

Responsibilities

• Majority of time spent in the field observing work, coaching, auditing, and engaging craft employee-owners.
• Help project supervision resolve safety problems and issues in the field.
• May fill in for site HSE manager during absences.
• Must be able to perform work wearing personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Maintain safety procedures and coordinate trainings per project timelines.

Skills

Safety training

Incident investigation

Field auditing

Communication

Education

OSHA 30 certification

Job description

About Austin Industrial

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.

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 .

This is a fulltime job working 40 hours a week. No Per Diem and no relocation assistance.

Safety Technician

Responsibilities include executing the site safety program on an assigned project. Educates and trains Austin project staff in safety requirements, best practices in incident preventions. Ensures compliance with company and customer safety policies. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties And Responsibilities

• Must be a journeyman Safety Technician with 3 to 5 years of experience.
• Must have current OSHA 30 card/certification.
• Build working relationships with customer representatives, project staff, and subcontractor safety representatives.
• Assist in creating accurate safety reports and accident investigation documents.
• Assist in staff safety training and subcontractor development.
• Represent company in a positive and professional manner with the customer and subcontractors.
• Create and facilitate safety trainings and orientations aligned with project specifics and schedules.
• Ensure compliance with the company’s current safety manual, policies and expectations.
• Majority of time spent in the field observing work, coaching, auditing, and engaging craft employee-owners.
• Help project supervision resolve safety problems and issues in the field.
• May fill in for site HSE manager during absences.
• Must be able to perform work wearing personnel protective equipment. Including but not limited to the following: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; work at heights; balance for extended periods of time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required For This Position

Education – OSHA 30

Experience – 3 to 5 years of experience in the industrial maintenance and construction industry.

Must pass medical and background check, as a condition of employment.

This is a fulltime job working 40 hours a week. No Per Diem and no relocation assistance.

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.

Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.

Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.

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.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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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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