Director of Quality & Safety

Estes Industries•Penrose, CO

4d•$80,000 - $90,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Quality and Safety is responsible for the implementation and maintenance of Estes’s ISO-9001 certification, oversight of permitting and licensing, and promotion of a strong safety culture. The Director will collaborate with the Director of Systems and other members of senior staff to develop and maintain processes and procedures, with a focus on manufacturing; and ensure product quality, personnel training, and implementing new quality assurance (QA) activities and procedures. In this role, the Director of Quality and Safety will also be responsible for company-wide document control and project scheduling.

Requirements

Associate degree or two years of vocational school required.
Proven time management, budgeting, problem-solving and analytical skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with extensive experience presenting information to audiences at all levels.
Supervising and leading.
Strategic planning and goal setting.
Maintaining and sharing a vision for safety and delegating effectively.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, and digital document storage.
Ability to conduct training.
Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
Extensive knowledge of current company safety policies and applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.

Nice To Haves

At least two years of related experience highly preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in health and Safety, Safety Engineering, Environmental Health, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Define, implement, and manage Estes’s quality strategy for optimal performance.
Provide management reporting and data analytics around quality escapes.
Coordinate response for internal and external process audits.
Collaborate with senior staff to develop and maintain processes and procedures.
Lead company effort to achieve and maintain ISO-9001 certification.
Oversight of maintenance of company licenses, permits, and certifications.
Develop, coordinate, and implement occupational health policies and procedures to promote and ensure effective safety operations in the organization.
Develop, prepare, and implement safety policies and procedures.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local safety laws, regulations, codes, and rules.
Ensure completion of required OSHA recordkeeping and reporting.
Provide technical and administrative support to the safety committee.
Stop operations and activities that could harm employees or equipment.
Identify opportunities to minimize workplace injuries, accidents, and health problems.
Conduct employee training on applicable safety standards.
Review safety training and recommend revisions, improvements, and updates.
Conduct safety inspections and audits to assess employee compliance with safety regulations.
Review accident and incident reports.
Ensure company-wide documents are received, transmitted, reviewed, changed, controlled, issued and stored as per project control guidelines.
Coordinate change control activities with all departments to implement and maintain the document management and control process.
Review document changes for adherence to document control procedures.
Distribute updated documents as needed.
Fulfill document retrieval requests.
Ensure staff members organize and archive documents by scanning, copying, physically and/or electronically filing according to control process and procedures.
Create, update and coordinate project schedules.
Work closely with team leaders to build, evaluate and optimize project schedules.
Organize, implement and maintain scheduling management system.
Assist to set up tasks to ensure completion of task as scheduled and updating status.
Provide scheduled reports to project team.
Interact with project team to define scope of work to develop and updated schedule.