SAFETY Specialist - NSS; 2nd Shift

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Nova Space Solutions, LLC (NSS) is a joint venture between Wolf Creek Federal Services, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chugach Government Solutions, LLC) and Amentum Technology, Inc. When you join NSS, you also become a part of a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, Chugach Government Solutions, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

Empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Nova Space Solutions may be the right fit for you!

The NSS Safety Specialist oversee accident prevention policies and programs, as well as training and implementation of those programs. Manages post-accident investigations in accordance with regulatory agencies.

This position is 2nd Shift Safety Support – Critical Systems at Michoud Assembly Facility, LA.

Work Model:
Onsite/In-Office

• Provide Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) program support assuring compliance with SHE policies, requirements, and controls to include performing surveillance of users/tenants, other NASA contractors, and visitors.
• Assess facilities and operations to identify hazardous conditions and control methods to minimize the level of risk directly or indirectly related to performing an operation or operating a facility; and ensures the residual risks identified during the assessment are accepted by the appropriate level of management based on the overall level of risk classification assigned the facility or operation prior to the actual startup or restart of the facility or operation.
• Perform and evaluate hazard analyses and safety assessments and review hazardous operation procedures for potentially hazardous operations and provide feedback to the Government as requested.
• Participate in Operational Readiness Assessments (ORA), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), Production Readiness Reviews (PRR) and other similar safety reviews to include those performed by users/tenants and other NASA contractors to assess and evaluate the safety of potentially hazardous facilities and operations and provide feedback to the Government as requested.
• Research safety regulations and informs senior management of changes. Implements actions to maintain compliance.
• Manages injury review process to determine and correct root cause. Performs job hazard analyses, system auditing and ergonomic task analysis to ensure safe working conditions.
• Manages special safety assignments and projects to ensure adherence to safety regulations and to determine needs for updating safety codes. Makes and implements safety policies and procedures as appropriate.
• Formulates, implements and maintains policies, programs and techniques necessary to achieve company goals and regulatory requirements including record retention.
• Ensures that corrective measures and risks meet acceptable safety standards for human interaction.
• Analyzes planning documents and develops safety engineering approach to meet customer, NASA, and other applicable requirements.
• Analyzes systems to identify and eliminate safety hazards, integrated hazards analysis, the systematic application of safety policies to the design of NASA Flight hardware, and assistance in the overall implementation of safety practices for systems/subsystems.