Senior Safety Leader – Chemical Plant | 20% Bonus & Relocation

Strategic Human Capital, LLC; Ohio; On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Annual bonus

Retirement plan

Job summary

Strategic Human Capital, LLC is seeking a Safety Superintendent to lead a site-wide Safety, Health, and Emergency Response program for a chemical manufacturing operation. The role drives process and behavioral safety, develops policies, and ensures compliance across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and contractors.

The position leads safety training, hazard assessments, incident prevention, and regulation adherence while partnering with plant leadership to strengthen safety culture and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Progressive safety leadership experience within an industrial manufacturing environment; chemical, petrochemical, refining, polymers, or other PSM-regulated process manufacturing experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading safety programs and influencing Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, contractors, and plant leadership.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations and Process Safety Management requirements for chemical manufacturing.
• Knowledge of industrial hygiene, hazardous-material evaluation, emergency response, workers' compensation, ergonomics, incident investigation, and job/task hazard analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and sustain Safety, Health, and Emergency Response policies and systems.
• Experience with safe-work practices including hazard assessments, PPE, respiratory protection, supplied-air systems, chemical protective clothing, and other industrial safety controls.
• Experience leading or supporting incident investigations, Root Cause Analysis, corrective-action management, audits, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for site Safety, Health, and Emergency Response programs.
• Champion the organization’s Safety Principles and Life Saving Rules and behavioral safety programs.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and continuously improve safety policies, procedures, and safe-work practices.
• Ensure robust safe-work systems and hazard assessments are established and utilised across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and contractor activities.
• Support compliance with applicable OSHA and Process Safety Management requirements.
• Provide leadership and technical guidance on OSHA compliance, Process Safety Management, industrial hygiene, and emergency response.
• Analyze safety performance, incidents, trends, and indicators to identify risk and corrective actions.
• Participate in incident investigations and root cause analyses and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Manage Safety, Health, and Emergency Response training for employees and contractors.
• Develop and coordinate emergency response drills and competency development.
• Maintain readiness of fire protection equipment and related safety systems.
• Lead safety personnel through performance management and career development.
• Balance department budgets including PPE and emergency resources.
• Serve as on-call safety leadership resource outside normal hours.

Skills

Safety Leadership

OSHA Regulations

Process Safety

Incident Investigation

Industrial Hygiene

Contractor Oversight

Education

Bachelor's degree in Safety/OSH

PSM training

Tools

Hazard Analysis Tools

Job description

Strategic Human Capital, LLC is seeking a Safety Superintendent to lead a site-wide Safety, Health, and Emergency Response program for a chemical manufacturing operation. The role drives process and behavioral safety, develops policies, and ensures compliance across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and contractors.

The position leads safety training, hazard assessments, incident prevention, and regulation adherence while partnering with plant leadership to strengthen safety culture and