What are the responsibilities and job description for the Safety Professional position at Cleco?
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The Safety Professional II will enhance Cleco’s capability in the development and implementation of fundamental safety programs for both employees and contractors. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to promote a safe working environment and ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations. Under the direction of management, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and delivering training, as well as providing professional consultation and technical expertise on health and occupational safety matters affecting Cleco’s employees and contractors.
Key Responsibilities
Required Education, Skills & Experience
The Safety Professional II will enhance Cleco’s capability in the development and implementation of fundamental safety programs for both employees and contractors. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to promote a safe working environment and ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations. Under the direction of management, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and delivering training, as well as providing professional consultation and technical expertise on health and occupational safety matters affecting Cleco’s employees and contractors.
Key Responsibilities
- Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, sense of belonging, customer service, and operational excellence.
- Develops safety-related training materials and delivers training on safety management processes. Assists employees with the implementation of new safety initiatives.
- Assists in the development and delivery of regulatory and company-required safety rules, policies, and procedures for employees and contractors.
- Provides a visible safety presence in the field with operations, maintenance, and contractor work groups to ensure consistent application of safety standards.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for operations, maintenance, engineering, and contractor activities to ensure compliance with all applicable safety requirements.
- Participates in safety assessments across company departments and contractor operations, building knowledge and capability throughout the organization around safe work practices.
- Participates in incident investigations involving employees and contractors, focusing on identifying root causes, promoting organizational learning, preventing recurrence, and recommending corrective actions.
- Coaches and mentors’ employees, supervisors, and contractors to promote ownership of Human Performance and Energy-Wheel principles at all levels of the organization.
- Provides leadership to transmission, distribution, and generation safety committees, as well as compliance system owners, to ensure effective maximum value creation.
- Conducts site safety observations focused on safe work practices and engages employees and contractors in coaching conversations when corrections or improvements are needed.
- Reviews Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) and Job Safety Briefs (JSBs)/tailboards to ensure that tasks, hazards, and mitigations align with the work being performed by employees and contractors in the field.
- Oversees fundamental safety programs for employees, and ensure contractors safety programs area aligned with industry requirements, including but not limited to: Confined Space Entry, Emergency Response, Electrical Safe Work Practices, Lockout-Tagout, Fall Protection, Line Break/Equipment Opening, Incident Investigation, Mobile Equipment, Personal Protective Equipment, Insulating Protective Equipment, Switching and Clearance, Protective Grounding Practices, Process Safety Management, and lifesaving procedures.
- Develops and maintains strong working relationships with managers, supervisors, employees, and contractors to ensure alignment with Cleco’s safety culture and organizational goals.
- Performs or ensures completion of health testing, air monitoring, noise monitoring, and hazard risk assessments are conducted, as required.
Required Education, Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or other applicable curriculum or equivalent work experience.
- Equivalent work experience is minimum 3-5 years of related experience with prior safety experience preferred.
- Step progression levels based on skill proficiency and scope of job.
- Strong business acumen pertaining to the Utility industry
- Strong knowledge of leading practices for their practice area
- Strong planning and project management skills
- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job
- Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner
- Building Organizational Talent*
- Building Partnerships
- Leading Teams
- Business Acumen
- Communication
- Courage
- Building Self-Insight
- Building Talent*
- Driving for Results
- Energizing the Organization
- Driving Execution
- Building Trusting Relationships
- Driving Innovation
- Planning and Organizing
- Safety
- Establishing Strategic Direction
- Analytical skills
- Compliance