Safety Manager - Austin Industrial - (El Dorado, KS)

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

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial (https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial).

Safety Manager:

Manages the site safety program on an assigned project. Manages the team of safety professionals on their assigned project site (where applicable). Educates and trains

Austin project staff in safety requirements, best practices, and incident prevention. Ensures compliance with company and customer safety policies.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Build working relationships with customer representatives, project staff, and subcontractor representatives

• Create accurate safety reports and accident investigation documents
• Lead and participate in 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

• Participate in safety organizations outside of the company and in assigned region
• Ensure compliance with the company’s current safety manual, policies, and expectations

• Develop and maintain the site Safety Execution Plan (SEP) and facilitate annual reviews

• Engage in cross-site activities including cross-audit opportunities with regional or area managers

Qualifications

• OSHA 30 required. Preferred certification as one or more of the following: BCSP OHST, BCSP CHST, NCCER Construction Safety Technician, NCCER Safety Technology, OSHA 500, or OSHA 501, or equivalent

• Minimum of three years of progressive experience in safety and health processes
• Industrial, manufacturing, and construction experience preferred

Position Specific Success Factors

The Behavioral Success Factors selected from Austin’s dictionary of Behavioral Success Factors that are the most important in this position:

• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Building a Successful Team
• Driving for Results
• Planning and Organizing
• Conflict Management

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.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf).

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.

Accessibility Note

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

Licenses & Certifications

• OSHA 10

Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.