Safety Specialist - EHS Coordinator

Overview

Safety Specialist – EHS Coordinator
Gabbs, Nevada

• Provides field HSE support and guidance throughout all activities. Fosters a safe culture by being informed, mindful, learning, fair and respectful
• Ensure compliance with state and federal MSHA regulatory and contract HSE requirements. Enforces company policies and procedures
• Assists in the development and delivery of safe operational processes
• Performance measurement: identifies potential and actual areas of improvement and assists in setting and formulating goals and tools for their achievement; provides input to leading and lagging HSE performance measures
• Assists teams in identifying hazards, assessing risks, and identifying relevant controls to manage and reduce these risks. Conduct and follow up on workplace assessments. Manage PPE program
• Performs audits to measure the level of safety culture and inspections per audit plan
• Incident management: ensures incidents are recorded and reported with proper case management; prepares initial detailed incident reports and conducts immediate incident and near-miss investigations
• Training and coaching: ensures safety expectations are communicated to the workforce; provides training sessions as per Training Plan and competency development requirements; educates workforce on lessons learned from previous and industry incidents
• Contingency management: provide immediate response in emergency situations; create and maintain effective emergency response and contingency drills to maintain and increase staff competency
• Measures required environmental parameters
• Monitors the quality of data entered in the reporting and action tracking tools
• Contractor/Vendor management: maintains records, tracks expiration dates, and notifies vendors if expiring – Insurance, Site Specific, MSHA 5000-23 for all contractor/vendors; records keeping for Certificate of Liability Insurance and Site Specific MSHA 5000-23 paperwork; conducts Safety Site Specific training with all visitors and contractors; prepares Safety MSHA Site-Specific packets for contractors/vendors
• Document control: new miner training paperwork record keeping, AIS sheets, track cards, vehicle inspections, monthly fire extinguisher inspections, annual hearing and pulmonary testing

• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Must be highly organized and capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong follow-up skills and attention to detail with problem resolution abilities
• Must be self-driven with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Demonstrated safety performance
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite;
  Adobe, eMaintenance (preferred)

• Valid Nevada Driver’s License
• Visual acuity, clear speech and hearing ability, cognitive ability, hand/eye coordination
• Walking, climbing stairs and occasional ladders, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, pushing, pulling, reaching, twisting, balancing, repetitive motion, driving, and sitting for extended periods
• Proper use of Personal Protective Equipment as required
• Must have good hand/eye coordination and vision to safely fulfill all in-plant job requirements
• Must be able to work in all types of weather conditions and in an industrial environment around hot, noisy process equipment with exposure to dust, sand, gravel, diesel exhaust, etc.
• Occasional travel required
• Occasional hours on off-shift may be required
• Pass required background check, physical examination and drug screens

• Minimum 2 years prior HSE experience in a mine setting – MSHA regulated
• HAZCOM development
• Demonstrates safety leadership
• Blue Card Certified (preferred)
• Motivated self-starter – conduct tasks with little or no supervision
• Able to work independently and as a team