Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist

• Position Location: Milwaukee Plant
• Address: 1521 W. Bruce St., Milwaukee, WI 53204
• Hours: Monday through Friday/Flexible Hours
• Starting Salary Range: Depends on Experience

Mid-City Foundry is in need of a detail-orientated and passionate individual to provide a safe and healthy work environment for all employees and to ensure compliance with all health, safety, and environmental regulations.

Why Choose Us?

• We are a family-oriented culture who has been around since 1941.
• We provide 10 paid holidays per year.
• Eligible for performance and discretionary bonuses.
• We provide paid vacation days, personal days, and paid sick days.
• We offer health insurance and pay a large portion of the premium.
• We also offer health reimbursement plans, dental insurance, vision, and company paid life insurance, disability, and more.
• We provide a company match to a 401K account.
• We have a simplified employee pension plan that you are eligible for upon hire.
• We offer safety boot and safety glass reimbursements.
• We offer a tuition reimbursement program.

Key Responsibilities:

Compliance:

• Update and maintain safety policies and programs to meet applicable requirements.
• Maintain company safety manual.
• Manage company safety programs including but not limited to Lockout/Tag out, Confined Space, Hazard Communications, Respiratory Protection, Hearing Conservation, Electrical Safety, Fire Prevention and Emergency Response.
• Stay current on OSHA and state safety regulations and EPA and DNR environmental regulations.
• Review emergency procedures and ensure all locations are updated on 1st Aid, CPR and emergency equipment and training as needed.
• Conduct fire and emergency evacuation drills
• Ensure fire extinguisher inspections are up to date.
• Maintain First Aid, Trauma and Blood Borne Pathogens kits
• Maintain appropriate inventory levels of safety supplies and PPE. Work with suppliers and order supplies when needed.
• Develop and sustain a First Responder program
• Manage Sharps & Bio-hazard program
• Maintain SDS database.
• Review new SDS’ for health, safety, environmental and PPE requirements.
• Coordinate and /or conduct industrial hygiene testing.
• Perform respirator fit testing.
• Schedule and Track employee health testing (Audiometric, X-ray, Pulmonary Function Testing, Respirator Fit Testing, Medical evaluations)

Training:

• Determine safety training needs.
• Create, update and maintain safety training materials.
• Conduct safety training and orientation for existing employees and new hires

Risk Management:

• Chair Safety Committee meetings, prepare minutes and assignments.
• Identify safety and ergonomic improvement opportunities.
• Maintain Employee exposure and health records.
• Maintain OSHA 300 logs and other required reports and post as needed.
• Coordinate creation and maintenance of Job Safety Analysis and Job PPE requirements.

Claims:

• Accident Investigation and Analysis: Investigates accidents to establish facts related to their causation and obtain information useful in preventing reoccurrences of similar accidents.
• Review accident investigation reports prepared by supervisors and managers.
• Analyze accident investigation reports to identify loss trends.

Inspections:

• Conduct safety inspections to identify workplace safety hazards and behavior issues.
• Recommend corrective actions to eliminate hazards.

Vehicles/DOT:

• Ensure that the Truck Driver’s medical certification is up to date.

Miscellaneous Duties:

• Help create a culture of safety throughout the company.
• Assist HR with Workers’ Compensation claims administration and case follow-up.
• Assist HR with Return-To-Work and Light-Duty program
• Schedule and track all required air, water and discharge testing and communicate results to Management.
• Coordinate and assist with DNR/EPA environmental recordkeeping and reporting such as Tier II, SARA 313, emissions reports and inventories.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience in environmental, health and safety compliance in a manufacturing setting.
• Thorough knowledge of 29 CFR 1910 General Industry Standards in the US.
• Working knowledge of EPA and DNR rules, regulations and reporting requirements.
• Working knowledge of Wisconsin Workers’ Compensation laws
• An understanding of the function and application of hazard analysis tools and techniques
• Requires superior interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with employees, staff, management and organized labor groups, etc. Observes and communicates with all supervisors and employees on all shifts (flexible work schedule is required).
• Excellent presentation, and negotiating skills are required.
• Must possess superior organizational skills and be able to prioritize and work simultaneously on several projects.
• Ability to operate within a team atmosphere.
• Ability to shift priorities frequently and effectively perform under pressure.
• Valid Wisconsin Driver’s License to travel to our Grafton location as needed.

• Strong basic mathematics and computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Bi-lingual in Spanish is preferred.