Lead Safety Specialist (Multi-State)

Position:              NAMER EAST Lead Safety Specialist               

Location:             New York, On-site

Salary:                  $100,000 - $110,000/annually

SUMMARY

The Lead Safety Specialist provides support for the Clients EHS program to strengthen safety advocacy and assure environmental, health and safety compliance across the sites to which they are assigned. They are responsible for the day to day Environmental, Health and Safety tasks supporting and reporting to management. Experience in auditing and performing tasks associated with an occupational safety program is required. Outstanding communication and writing skills are required; experience self-motivating within an existing framework as well as project management is extremely helpful. The role is highly collaborative in nature offering support to multiple work groups. 

 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Have a current passport or be able to obtain one.
• Able to travel (international or domestic, as required) approximately 25% of the time or more, occasionally with limited notice.
• Able to work evening or weekend hours when required, such as during an emergency or high-priority event.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manages EHS programs and initiatives to meet regulatory requirements and EHS needs of client account.
  • Maintain ISO, OSHA equivalent and/or ICS certification as required.
• Implement provided Health and Safety programs at the site level including but not limited to:
  • Site metrics
  • Regulatory documentation
  • H&S audits and risk assessments
  • Awareness training
  • Incident investigation
  • Ergonomic evaluations
• Responds timely to additional requests from onsite management.
• Coordinates the site Emergency Response Team (ERT):
  • Recruit and train ERT members
  • Coordinate quarterly practice sessions.
  • With assistance from required parties, facilitates site wide evacuation drills.
• Support infectious disease and public health response as required
• Report information as required to onsite management.
• Respond as needed during “after hours” emergencies. 
• Deploy awareness training to promote safety culture in the workplace.
• Maintain site EHS metrics and distribute as required. 
• Collaborate with Security and Workplace to monitor standards and regulations.
• Process documents and report periodically to program management teams to identify hidden risks or nonconformity issues.
• Assist in preparing permits and evidence of compliance with environmental regulations
• Conduct regular (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual) audits and inspections in a timely manner and submit to the appropriate party.
• Track and report progress on health and safety observations arising from monitoring activities , audits and incidents. 
• Make sure sites have easy access to EHS documentation such as Safety Data Sheet binder, Evacuation maps, etc. (coordinate with FM partners as needed).
• Using provided meeting technology, schedule and facilitate a variety of meetings and webinars to disseminate gathered information.
• Maintain a client service approach to problem-solving of health and safety concerns.
• Investigate workplace incidents and near-misses, prepare reports, and recommend preventive measures.
• Communicate concerns, issues, and recommended resolutions to EHS stakeholders and the management.
• Provides health and safety support for events, both onsite and offsite. 
• May travel to other sites as needed.
• Directly line manages team members within assigned area.
• Indirectly manages, assigning and appraising tasks and providing guidance and support to, safety and security officers within assigned area.
• Supports global and regional level projects and initiatives as required.
• This list is partial.  Other tasks deemed important to the furthering of EHS at the client site may be assigned and are part of the job requirements.
  • The functions listed above describe the business purpose of this job. Specific duties or tasks may vary and be documented separately. The employee might not be required to perform all functions listed. Additional duties may be assigned, and functions may be modified, according to business necessity.
  • All assigned duties or tasks are deemed to be part of the essential functions, unless such duties or tasks are unrelated to the functions listed, in which case they are deemed to be other (non-essential) functions.
  • Employees are held accountable for successful job performance. Job performance standards may be documented separately, and may include functions, objectives, duties, or tasks not specifically li