Senior Safety & Environmental Specialist

Senior Safety & Environmental Specialist; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

S&C Electric Company in Chicago seeks a Senior Safety & Environmental Specialist to strengthen our Health, Safety & Environmental Services function. You will provide technical consultation, develop training content, and support compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead audits, improve programs, and mentor the HSES team while traveling to S&C locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety or environmental related field; 5+ years in safety & environmental roles preferred.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and assignments.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training.
• Incident investigation proficiency including risk assessment and root cause analysis.
• Willingness to travel to other S&C locations (within and outside United States).
• Experience in engineering and manufacturing environments; data analytics experience.
• Flexibility to work non-traditional hours when needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide Safety & Environmental guidance for HSE programs (BBS, LERP, RCRA, Hazard Communication, LOTO, NFPA 70E, Confined Space, Ergonomics, PIV, air/noise monitoring, waste management, DOT, OSHA compliance).
• Refine programs and procedures to improve effectiveness and ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
• Train and support site teams on safety requirements and initiatives.
• Track and interpret federal, state, and local safety and environmental regulations; assess impact on operations.
• Coordinate facility audits and inspections; document corrective actions and follow-ups.
• Develop safety/environmental training content and delivery modes; assess competency needs.
• Facilitate ergonomic assessments and recommendations; use standard tools and digital modeling.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive environmental initiatives and waste reduction.

Skills

Safety & Environmental

Training design

Incident investigation

Data analytics

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and/or Environmental, Mechanical/Industrial/Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, or equivalent experience

Job description

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner!

Hours

• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) Hybrid

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $87758 - $116285.18. Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria.

Join our Team as a Senior Safety and Environmental Specialist!

Are you passionate aboutSafety? S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to help support ourSafety & EnvironmentalServicesfunction. Reporting to the Global Health, Safety & Environmental Services department, this position will work with the corporate HSE team and assists with company safety environmental activities to assure compliance with legal requirements utilizing economical, effective, and efficient concepts. This position works closely with leadership to provide technical consultation, support, and guidance to leadership and team members on safety & environmental matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Safety & Environmental guidance and support for Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) programs, which include but not limited to: Behavior Based Safety (BBS) programs, Location Emergency Response Plan (LERP); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Hazard Communication, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Electrical Safe Work practices (NFPA 70E), Confined Space, Ergonomics, Powered Industrial Vehicles (PIV), industrial air and noise monitoring, sustainability and waste management compliance, Department of Transportation (DOT), as well as other applicable OSHA compliance to reduce workplace injury.
• Refine existing programs and procedures to improve effectiveness and efficiency or eliminate their need. Reviews and updates safety policies and procedures on a routine and as needed basis to assure compliance with applicable required federal, state, and local regulations and corporate standards.
• Provide active support to S&C Corporate team members (Engineering, R&D, Quality, IT, HR, Sales, Service and others) by training team members on safety requirements and assisting the site to ensure compliance with HSE programs and initiatives.
• Track Federal, State and Local safety & environmental regulations and evaluate their effects on company operations.
• Interface with various stakeholders (e.g., Operations, technical support, etc.) to meet assigned safety & environmental objectives and drive action items to completion.
• Establish and coordinate facility audits, inspections, and observations to assure all facility operations are in compliance with Local, State, and Federal regulations; follow-up with Operations to ensure corrective actions are completed and documented; Conduct audits as needed and perform systematic review of audit data entry and analysis, track/trends for all audits.
• Develop suitable safety and environmental training content and delivery mode, in line with global, regional, and legal requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify competence needs, adjust curriculum to reflect site-specific demand and organize and provide appropriate training using a Learning Management System
• Facilitate virtual and physical ergonomic assessments and recommendations using standard ergonomic analysis tools and/or Digital Human Modeling to identify and prioritize ergonomic risk factors to comply with corporate guidelines and standards to improve operator efficiency, quality, reduce cost, improve safety and eliminate operator injury.
• Collaborate with cross-functional organizations within S&C to drive environmental initiatives including – but not limited to – waste reduction, reuse, recycling, resource conservation, circularity, recyclable contents, and materials, etc.
• Collaborate with, mentor and teach others within the HSES team as well as S&C Electric company on HSES and S&C best practices and procedures

What you’ll Need To Succeed:

Job Requirements (To select this job at a minimum you must have the following):

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and/or Environmental, Mechanical/Industrial/Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Safety & Environmental professional (preferred), or equivalent experience inan engineering and manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated sustained high-level performance in safety functions with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to simultaneously handle a variety of projects and assignments and to bring an effective approach to the solution of technical objectives.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training.
• Incident Investigation proficiency including risk assessment and root cause analysis, countermeasure development, and PDCA measures.
• Willing to travel to other S&C locations within and outside United States.
• Experience with engineering, R&D, laboratory or heavy manufacturing environment.
• Experience in data analytics and finding correlations in data.
• Must be able to work flexible shifts as needed.

Preferred:

Professional EHS Certifications including but not limited to: ASSP, BCSP, NSC, or other accredited institutions

Major Physical Demands:

• This job may require periodic travel by car and/or airline to S&C locations and perform in-person inspectionsand investigations in a wide variety of factory and office environments or attend off site seminars andtraining activities for continued safety and/or environmental development. 5% or less.
• Activities such as standing, extensive walking, climbing stairs / ladders, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling,bending, reaching, handling and may be exposed to hot/cold temperatures will occasionally be required.Frequent use of computers and office equipment is required.
• Ability to travel occasionally to other facilities and flexibility to work non-traditional business hours as needed.