Safety Specialist Job at Ahlstrom, Kaukauna, WI

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  • Ahlstrom
  • Kaukauna, WI

Job Description

The Safety Specialist is responsible for achieving optimum health and safety compliance and performance for our Kaukauna mill operations in a manner that meets or exceeds established performance expectations. The Safety Specialist is the key agent in evaluating and developing safety, health, and industrial hygiene programs, along with developing and conducting necessary training, managing required compliance reporting, and overseeing the facility’s Emergency Response Program. The Safety Specialist is also responsible for providing support to our operations leaders and must set the tone for safety accountability with this group.

Key Responsibilities

  • Must follow Ahlstrom's manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures, and policies, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
  • Walk to the manufacturing floor regularly to establish a Health and Safety presence and provide support.
  • Support the Health Services team.
  • Provide support in the Workers' Compensation program with an emphasis on process improvement and cost reduction.
  • Evaluate, develop, deploy, and monitor safety and health programs, procedures, policies, and standards to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, customer, and Company safety and health standards and requirements.
  • Provide support to the manufacturing leadership team in safety compliance, employee ownership, and safety accountability.
  • Transform the culture of safety leadership and responsibility from functional leadership to manufacturing ownership and personal accountability.
  • Provide focus, direction, leadership, training, and technical expertise to tactical teams and committees, such as the Joint Safety Committee, First Responders, etc.
  • Identify, implement, and solidify the best-known preventive/compliance safety and health standards and practices into all operations.
  • Develop, implement, and administer an internal safety and health hazard/risk assessment and standards compliance auditing process designed to validate adherence to best-known standards and practices.
  • Lead root-cause analysis investigations procedure/process designed to reveal and capture intellectual wisdom from all near-miss and/or failure occurrences. Communicate post-incident and near-miss findings through written and verbal communications and detailed incident investigations.
  • Lead continuous improvement processes to identify and eliminate high-risk tasks through review of historical incident data; leading/warning indicators, plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity observations; and other related methods.
  • Provide applicable management/agency notification, oversight, interface, and coaching, and serve as the point of contact for all inquiries, communication, and interface with Federal, State, and Local agencies/authorities.
  • Ensure safety and health is considered in all appropriate business activities and that safety pre-checks are completed before all facility, equipment, process, technology, and/or raw material modifications/changes.
  • Ensure adequate safety and health controls are properly designed, installed, trained, and operating on all equipment.
  • All other assignments assigned by management.

Qualifications

  • BA in Occupational Health is preferred but not required.
  • 2-5 years in a manufacturing setting preferred.
  • Strong understanding of safety regulations and communication skills

What we offer

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Company provided life insurance and short-term disability
  • Long-term disability, Critical Illness, & Accident insurance
  • Competitive 401(K) plan - eligible to start day one of employment.

Work Schedule and Location

  • Location: 600 Thilmany Road, Kaukauna, WI (On-Site)
  • Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:30 AM - 3:00 PM, must be available for on-call duties, including weekends, and flexible to work outside of regular hours when required

Apply today & start your career with Ahlstrom!

Job Tags

Temporary work, Local area, Immediate start, Flexible hours, Monday to Friday,

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