Field Safety Coordinator

Heritage Cooperative•Delaware, OH

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About The Position

The Field Safety Coordinator serves as a safety leader for Heritage Cooperative, supporting safety policies, training, and initiatives across its locations. The role involves conducting OSHA-like inspections and audits, identifying hazards, assessing risks, recommending corrective actions, and helping ensure that policies, procedures, training, and required records are current. The Coordinator documents findings and shares recommendations, best management practices, and lessons learned among facilities. The position supports workplace incident investigations, environmental and industrial hygiene sampling, personal exposure monitoring, and implementation of safety requirements. The Coordinator works with location managers and operations and management teams to strengthen compliance with safety policies and state and federal regulations. The role requires a strong field presence, frequent travel estimated at 50% or greater, and may involve overnight travel. Work takes place outdoors and across agricultural and industrial settings, with exposure to varied weather, chemicals, dust, noise, confined spaces, and heavy machinery.

Requirements

High school diploma.
Knowledge of safety regulations and best practices.
Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects and responsibilities.
Ability to travel for field audits; travel is estimated at 50% or greater and may include overnight stays.
Ability to work outdoors in all seasons and varied weather conditions.
Ability to walk, bend, stoop, climb, and lift or carry equipment or materials weighing up to 50 pounds.
Ability to climb ladders, stairs, and elevated platforms, including those on silos, grain bins, and farm machinery.
Ability to conduct detailed site inspections and investigations, with accurate reporting and strong observation skills.
Knowledge of chemical hazards, communication standards, and proper personal protective equipment use.
Knowledge of personal protective equipment and respiratory requirements.
Ability to assess and address hazards involving dust, pollen, mold, noise, confined spaces, and machinery.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, agribusiness, or a related field.
Experience in an agricultural cooperative or energy background.
OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certification, or willingness to obtain OSHA 30.
OSHA-Authorized Outreach Trainer.

Responsibilities

Represent Heritage Cooperative’s Core Values through customer service, integrity and trust, continuous improvement, and partnership.
Visit Heritage Cooperative locations to conduct OSHA-like inspections and audits.
Identify potential hazards, assess risks, and develop corrective actions to mitigate them.
Ensure locations maintain up-to-date policies and procedures.
Verify that required recordkeeping is completed.
Ensure employees receive training relevant to their tasks, including lockout/tagout, confined spaces, and powered industrial trucks.
Assist location managers with employee training and review training enrollment needs by division, location, and duties.
Document inspection findings, recommendations and corrective actions, best management practices, and lessons learned in reports.
Assist with workplace accident and incident investigations and recommend corrective and preventive measures.
Assist the Director of Safety Risk & Compliance and the Safety Manager.
Conduct environmental sampling, including water and air sampling using approved EPA methods.
Perform industrial hygiene activities, including personal exposure monitoring for noise, dust, and hazardous chemicals.
Help enforce and implement safety policies at the field level.
Coach and consult with operations and management on safety responsibilities and applicable policies and state and federal regulatory requirements.
Demonstrate safety policies, procedures, training, and initiatives, and foster open discussion of safety issues to improve the cooperative’s safety culture.
Travel to cooperative locations, estimated at 50% or greater depending on the facility audit schedule; overnight travel may be required.