Overnight Health & Safety Specialist

Role summary / purpose This position serves as an Owner representative, who is responsible for basic technical work in a wide range of health and safety disciplines to achieve compliance with the organization's H&S standards and with federal, state and local regulatory requirements. Works under general supervision and often self-directed. Key responsibilities • Monitors and observes work activity and provides technical and intervention direction to enable the prevention and control of H&S incidents and hazards. • Recommends improvements in basic processes, design, procedures, and operating equipment, to minimize the hazard potential. • Maintains current knowledge of specific requirements imposed by governmental agencies and internal programs, procedures and processes. • May provide technical guidance to less experienced personnel working on environmental, health or safety programs. • Assist work teams and vendors in resolving concerns and compliance deficiencies. • Know the respective H&S contractual requirements to ensure full understanding of expectations. • Ensure a safe work environment is maintained through the identification and correction of H&S-related hazards and risks. • Perform daily/routine field observations to identify unsafe conditions and at-risk behaviors, and environmental issues. • Interface with site Health & Safety professionals to integrate and discuss H&S issues and resolve related questions. • Interface with contractor safety representatives, site H&S professionals and project/contract manager(s) to correct deficiencies and resolve issues. • Attend and participate in project/outage meetings and Safety/Environmental Steering Team (SEST) meetings, Pre-Job Briefings and any other meetings required to communicate concerns and trends. • Perform incident trend analysis and develop safety/health improvement initiatives. • Administer and facilitate enforcement of safety initiatives. • Ensure communication delivery to project/outage work teams by following up with appropriate personnel. • Site safety inspections shall also include observations for environmental issues such as container labeling/control, potential refueling spills, hazardous materials, etc. • Provide routine updates of H&S issues to the site H&S contacts. • Participate in incident investigations, as necessary. • Assist with or provide training to contractors as needed for various health and safety topics including site orientation. • Assist with improving outage/project safety/health and help provide a safe work environment for all employees. • Primarily monitor safety/health in all phases of project. • Communicate with all project/outage employees regarding job safety/health and where applicable, environmental compliance. • Notify appropriate project lead personnel to facilitate correction of any deficiencies in a timely manner. • Report all findings to the respective contracting firm management and site H&S/EHS contacts. • Have a working knowledge of basic environmental requirements to identify non-compliance issues. • Report H&S contractor incidents to appropriate site contacts. • Immediately notify appropriate personnel of incidents of potential asbestos, or lead-containing materials encountered by employees. • Maintain a log of identified H&S/EHS issues and resolutions. • Document observed unsafe behavior or conditions (and safe behavior). Requirements – education & experience • 10 or more years of discipline experience…