Sr. Safety Specialist

FNS, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision PPO

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Additional Paid time off

Years of Service Awards

Education Assistant Program

Job summary

FNS, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ is seeking an experienced EHS/Safety professional to lead site safety programs and ensure regulatory compliance across operations.

The role focuses on training, inspections, incident investigation, and maintaining safety records to support a safe workplace. You will coordinate with operations, contractors, and regulators, requiring strong English communication, Spanish training capability, and travel between sites.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of hands-on EHS or safety compliance experience in industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics or heavy equipment operations.
• Working knowledge of Arizona OSHA requirements and federal OSHA general industry standards, emergency planning, HazCom, PPE, powered industrial trucks and injury recordkeeping.
• Experience leading inspections, investigations, training, corrective action tracking and document control; able to communicate with regulators and customers professionally.
• Strong English communication skills and ability to train or arrange effective training for Spanish speaking employees. Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel between sites, walk industrial yards, and work around operating equipment while following site safety rules.

Responsibilities

• Maintain site specific accident prevention / safety plans, emergency action plans, fire prevention procedures, hazard communication programs, PPE assessments, equipment rules, and applicable permits.
• Maintain an indexed evidence system showing when training, inspections, drills, audits, and corrective actions occurred.
• Lead routine self inspections, document findings with owners and due dates, verify closure in the field, and prepare records and management representatives for inspections; coordinate with authorities as appropriate.
• Set and enforce site specific PPE rules; coach supervisors and document follow through.
• Oversee vehicle and equipment controls, operator qualifications, and safe towing / recovery procedures.
• Conduct job hazard analyses for nonroutine work; coordinate lockout/tagout, fall protection, electrical safety and other controls.
• Maintain chemical inventories and training for battery materials; coordinate response plans with leadership and responders.
• Investigate injuries and near misses; preserve evidence, assign corrective actions and verify effectiveness.
• Partner with operations to apply corrective coaching and track findings.

Skills

EHS compliance

Safety training

Regulatory knowledge

Spanish language

Communication

Job description

Since its inception in 1995, FNS has been focused on providing the best total logistics services by implementing our core values: trust, communication, team play, challenge, and balance. Through trust, we can be a logistics partner that customers trust with a diverse group that works together based on a strong, unified belief. By communicating with and accommodating the voices of customers and co-workers we can deliver the best services. Our team play is enhanced by the appreciation and cooperation with each other with a focus on a singular goal. Challenging the status quo and innovating, FNS is unafraid of failure and strives to develop and improve our processes. Work-life balance strives to provide individuals with happiness to achieve and grow together.

For 2025, we have set out to become one of the nation’s top 25 logistics companies with more than $1,500M in sales, with the best employee and customer satisfaction, and a network of over 100 different partners.

To achieve our goals, there is an emphasis on three traits of work. We promote a family-like working environments allow us to help promote every member’s work-life balance, allowing us to develop cooperation and care for one another like family. We are nominated by our customers whom we can grow with based on a trusting relationship between our services and our customers. We specialize fields of work where professionals can nurture their talent, and we focus on every member’s work-life balance so that members may cooperate and care for each other like family. Our core values are integral to the success and growth of FNS.

To Discover more, please visit our website at http://www.fnsusa.com

Type: Full-Time

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities

Programs and inspection readiness

• Maintain site specific accident prevention / safety plans, emergency action plans, fire prevention procedures, hazard communication programs, PPE assessments, equipment rules, and applicable permits. Keep controlled copies available at each site and current digital backups.
• Maintain an indexed evidence system showing when training, inspections, drills, audits, and corrective actions occurred. Distinguish preventive records from actions completed after an incident or inspection; never backdate records.
• Lead routine self inspections, document findings with owners and due dates, verify closure in the field, and prepare records and management representatives for ADOSH, fire authority, customer, and insurer inspections. Coordinate citation responses with Corporate Safety and counsel as appropriate.

Field safety and equipment

• Set and enforce site specific PPE rules from documented hazard assessments, including footwear, hand protection, high visibility garments, and other task appropriate protection. Coach supervisors and document consistent follow through with employees and staffing agencies.
• Oversee pedestrian and vehicle separation, traffic plans, yard and dock controls, container handling, forklift and straddle carrier operations, reach stackers, yard tractors, trailers, and shuttle activity. Verify authorized operators, training and evaluations, pre use checks, maintenance escalation, and safe towing / recovery procedures.
• Conduct job hazard analyses for nonroutine work, contractor work and equipment changes; coordinate lockout/tagout, fall protection, electrical safety and other applicable controls with the responsible employer.

Chemicals and emergency preparedness

• Maintain chemical inventories, accessible safety data sheets, labels and hazard communication training for battery materials, propane, fuels and other workplace chemicals. Coordinate battery damage, thermal event, spill and fire response plans with site leadership and local responders; define when employees evacuate and when trained responders take over.
• Plan and document emergency exercises and evacuation drills at a frequency established by applicable law, permit, customer requirements and site risk. Record attendance, observations, action items and closure. Inspect emergency routes, eyewash / spill supplies and fire protection interfaces with qualified service providers.

Training, incidents and accountability

• Deliver orientation and recurring role specific training across shifts in a language and vocabulary workers understand; use qualified interpreters or bilingual trainers where needed. Maintain rosters, dated sign in records, materials, competency checks and retraining triggers.
• Investigate injuries, near misses, equipment damage and unsafe conditions; preserve evidence, identify contributing causes, assign corrective actions and verify effectiveness. Support required injury and illness recordkeeping and timely regulator notifications with Corporate Safety.
• Partner with operations leaders and staffing agencies to apply fair, documented corrective coaching and discipline under company policy. Track repeat findings and report unresolved or imminent hazards promptly to site leadership.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of hands on EHS or safety compliance experience in industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics or heavy equipment operations, including multi site responsibility.
• Working knowledge of applicable Arizona occupational safety requirements and federal OSHA general industry standards, emergency planning, HazCom, PPE, powered industrial trucks and injury recordkeeping.
• Experience leading inspections, investigations, training, corrective action tracking and document control; able to communicate with regulators and customers professionally.
• Strong English communication skills and ability to train or arrange effective training for Spanish speaking employees. Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel between sites, walk industrial yards, and work around operating equipment while following site safety rules.

The base salary range for this role is between $65,000-$75,000 yearly, and your base salary will depend on your experiences, qualifications, and skills.

Benefits (Full-Time ONLY)

• Health, Dental, and Vision PPO Insurance
• Life, STD, LTD Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Additional Paid time off (Bereavement, Wedding, Birth of a Child, etc.)
• Years of Service Awards
• Education Assistant Program (Based on Eligibility)

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