Safety Representative - Offsite Maintenance and Modernization (M&M) Office in Puget

The Offsite Maintenance and Modernization (M&M) Office in Puget is hiring a Safety Representative.

This position is for the Safety Representative that supports maintenance work on various construction efforts within the shipyard and shop environments. This position supports job site hazard analysis, industrial hygiene monitoring, injury investigations, safety inspections and coordination of safety training.

This position requires working onboard submarines.

The ideal candidate will cultivate and promote a positive TEAM environment, be highly motivated, demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills, and drive innovation and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will establish and maintain strong working relationship with the AIT team to ensure performance in safety, quality, schedule, and cost.

This individual will work collaboratively with on-site supervision to achieve department goals. This position requires a strong sense of ownership, responsibility, and accountability to achieve overall success.

Travel will be required to offsite locations to support coordination and oversight of related activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support new construction and delivered ship work
• Conduct daily safety walk-throughs of the ship and shop
• Enforce safety and ensure proper PPE is being applied for select applications
• Conduct on-hull paint sampling and lab results prior to conducting work
• Established daily on-hull hotwork permits
• Established and maintains confined space entry postings
• Ensure work is in accordance with local and Federal regulations: FPA, NFPA, OSHA, WAC, USN, EB
• Enforce/comply with safety and environmental programs; monitor trends and ensure compliance; consult with responsible departments
• Provide shipyard interaction and government interfacing
• Shall interface with Engineering, ships’ management and other off-site organizations
• Achieve and maintain safety, quality, cost, schedule, and performance goals
• Identify and address significant (including Level 1) problems in a timely manner
• Establish and execute annual audit plans; provide trend and performance analysis
• Collaborate with site leadership to ensure readiness for inspections and audits
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement efforts to support program goals
• Plan for risk identification and responsive mitigation strategies
• Monitor and improve workplace climate; reinforce desired workforce values behaviors; maintain morale
  
  

Required

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• A minimum of 1 year of Industrial-related Safety experience is required
• DoD Secret security clearance or higher is required
• Computer skills in MS Word, MS Project, Excel, Power Point and PQS
• Must be able to qualify and maintain Respiratory Protection certification
• Must be able to qualify and maintain Fall Arrest Protection certification
• Must be able to qualify and maintain Lifting & Handling / Industrial Trucks certification
• Must be able to qualify and maintain the EB Heavy Metals Program requirements
• Must be able to qualify and maintain a Shipyard Competent Person certification
• Must be able to qualify and maintain a Department Environmental Coordinator certification
• Ability to work onboard submarines
• Travel to other shipyards in the continental United States is required
• Required to work other than normal duty hours, to include evenings, weekends, and/or holidays
• Shift work and emergency overtime may be required
  
  

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/sciences
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and/or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) highly desirable
• 5 years of experience in military, shipbuilding, and ship repair, or manufacturing industry
• Fire Safety, EOD, and/or EMS/Paramedic experience
• OSHA General Industry or Maritime 10hr, 30hr, SCP training/certification
• OSHA/EPA HAZWOPER certification
• OSHA/EPA GHS and HAZCOM experience
• OSHA/NFPA 70E and/or Marine Chemist certification
• Training experience (MTS cert, OSHA Outreach, AHA Heart Saver Instructor, etc.)
• Radiological Dosimetry qualification (J / R qual)
• Welding, NDT, Electrical, RADCON, and QA experience in maritime environment
• The successful candidate will be expected to know, comply with and participate in site improvement goals for Safety, Quality, Cost, Schedule and Continuous Improvement
  
  

Skills

• Highly organized with the ability to multitask within a constantly changing environment
• Strong coordination skills across multiple disciplines and functional areas
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including technical correspondence
• Strong communicator with the ability to balance priorities
• The candidate must possess strong analytical, causal analysis, communication, organizational, planning, and writing skills under minimal supervision
• The successful candidate will be expected to know, comply with and participate in site improvement goals for Safety, Quality, Cost, Schedule and Continuous Improvement
  
  

Physical Qualifications

Climbing, Color Vision, Crawling, Heavy Lifting, Kneeling, Light Lifting, Medium Lifting, Pulling, Pushing, Reaching, Stooping, Twisting

Environmental Attributes

Acids or Alkalis, Cold, Dry, Dusty, Fumes, Hot, Inside, Noise, Oily, Outside, Wet