Safety Coordinator

Seeking an Experienced Safety Coordinator (Bilingual) to Join Our AustinTeam

Overview:

Mr. Greens has proudly grown into one of the largest privately-owned produce distributors in Florida and Georgia. With deliveries 365 days a year, 7 days a week, and multiple runs per day, Mr. Greens has set the gold standard for service. We serve a diverse range of clients, including restaurants, hotels, country clubs, caterers, grocery stores, and retail outlets.

Job Summary:

This is a Safety position responsible for assisting in the daily operations of the Safety Department, administering all Safety's policies, procedures, and programs to assure profitable performance and growth of the organization, and providing worker's compensation support and assisting the Safety Director in other projects as required.

Duties

• Participates in the investigation of vehicle accidents and injuries, identifies causes, and find corrective actions to alleviate any future occurrences.
• Through observations, media, or occurrences, review current safe work practices and develop new or corrective practices to promote a safe work environment.
• Engage associates to follow the safe work methods into their daily job functions.
• Assist in presenting new hire and annual safety training programs that capture the attention of associates and entails all the required elements of Department of Transportation (DOT) and OSHA compliance.
• Assist with new employee training such as Power Equipment certification, provide retraining(if applicable)
• Provide physical training of powered equipment if necessary.
• Track new employee performance and monitor their progress.
• Audit the training process.
• Administrative duties such as: assisting the Safety Director, setting up files, setting meetings, and maintaining training logs/files.
• Aid with projects and produce miscellaneous statistical reports as required for Management and Safety.
• Ensure all warehouse training are current and complete.
• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
• Other duties as related or assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• High school diploma or General Education Development (GED) or equivalent.
• College or associate’s degree preferred.
• OSHA10 preferred

Experience

• Minimum of 6 months' experience in a Safety or Risk Management Department.
• 1-2 years' Worker's Compensation Claims Management experience preferred.

Professional skills

• Solid Excel skills, extremely organized, reliable, and self- motivated.
• Technical knowledge of DOT and state laws.
• Strong interpersonal, telephone, and written communication skills.
• Solid organization skills.
• Able to handle several tasks at the same time, with numerous interruptions, and must be able to keep the information confidential.
• Excellent working knowledge of Word, Excel, and Microsoft Outlook.
• Ability to work independently.

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• May be required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to touch, manipulate or feel; reach with hands and arms; climbing or balancing and crouching, kneeling, crouching, or crawling and speaking and hearing.
• May be required to lift up to 40 pounds.
• Specific vision skills that may be required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
• May sit at a computer for extended periods or remain at a workstation for extended periods or until relieved by a supervisor.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Paid weekly

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by associates within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job. To perform this job successfully, a person must be able to perform each essential task satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.