Health and Safety Officer

Description:

Under limited supervision, supervise coordinate and assess the effectiveness of Health and Safety programs/policies, and in-field activities through supervision of personnel and/or projects. Leads processes in the Health & Safety Management System, including incident investigations and hazard assessments to ensure compliance with government laws and regulations and company policies.

Essential Functions:

• Audits processes and facilities within area (s) of responsibility to ensure Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) is in compliance and conforms not only to Corporate requirements, but with local, federal, state and business requirements.
• Provides safety input for production and maintenance planning.
• Conducts and leads hazard evaluations, risk assessments and initiates corrective actions and controls for correction. Manages H&S staff in this process. Completes incident investigations, determines risk levels, and manages complex root cause analysis.
• Manages Health and Safety projects.
• Manages MSHA/OSHA/State Mine Inspector visits, evaluates filed activities, addresses potential violations with inspectors, and ensures documentation of all potential Violations are completed as required.
• Inspects work areas and addresses identified non-conformities to ensure safe work requirements are attained.
• Applies knowledge of applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances, statutes, regulations, rules, policies and procedures to support safe Production.
• Presents Health and Safety related information and possesses intermediate knowledge of site processes in order to respond to questions or concerns from employees, managers and other stakeholders.

Job Scope:

• Nature of Work: Works on complex issues and implements solutions through individual effort but may delegate more routine tasks to others
• Level of Interaction: Collaborates with peers in the same functional area and/or department, and has high external interaction
• Autonomy/Decision-making: Works under moderate supervision and has latitude in some situations to set objectives, priorities and timelines that may impact departments or individual work groups.
• Budgetary responsibility: Assists with budget preparation and monitoring.
• Managerial responsibility: may supervise people (needs may vary at location) and is expected to manage functions, projects or programs and make most day-to-day business decisions autonomously.