Safety Coordinator

ARD Logistics•Charleston, SC

43d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Safety Coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring the safety and health of all employees across all shifts. You will foster a safety-first atmosphere and motivate employees to remain injury-free throughout all work sites. The Safety Coordinator will identify, coordinate, automate, or improve safety processes and tasks, and enable execution lead by the Director of Safety.

Requirements

Experience in Science, Engineering, Environmental or Health and Safety disciplines.
An understanding of Risk Management, certified management systems and auditing programs.
Sound Microsoft Office skills, and the ability to learn and adapt to several information technologies systems.
The ability to co-ordinate and manipulate large amounts of data from varying sources into succinct and well-structured reports.
Ability to interact and build strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders, at all levels of the business.
Effective time management, attention to detail, and competing priorities management skills.
A willingness to be self-motivated and hands-on while working un-supervised.
Must be able to work with minimum supervision.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Management, dispatch, and dock experience required, preferably warehousing industry.
Must be experienced in OSHA recordkeeping requirements.
Moderate computer skills.
Some knowledge of Microsoft office is a plus.
Must have advanced Microsoft Excel experience and knowledge.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Capable of handling frequent interruptions.
Must be able to lift, bend, stoop, reach, and climb.
Must be able to lift to 50 pounds unassisted.
Must be able to stand for up to 8 hours per day and overtime as required.
Work involves occasional lifting to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 75 pounds assisted, operating material handling equipment, bending, stooping, reaching, and climbing.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Six months experience working in a warehouse/logistics environment preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist the site in maintaining compliance with all aspects of the GAA environment, Health and Safety policies, processes, and systems.
Assist the site in upholding compliance with ISO, and OHSAS standards.
Provide support in risk assessments, incident investigation and the appropriate corrective actions.
Support the implementation of site EHS compliance and risk mitigation programs to meet regulatory and corporate requirements.
Support and deliver site awareness and training programs on Environmental, Health and Safety requirements and responsibilities.
Help with projects and other initiatives in support of the site achieving EHS KPIs.
Act as site administrator and subject matter expert for the corporate EHS system.
Develop effective reporting/analysis tools for Environmental, Health and Safety key performance indicators.
Provide administrative support to the site EHS Committee.
Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Conduct daily inspections to ensure compliance with local state, federal, federal safety regulations as well as OSHA compliance and DOT (Department of Transportation) compliance.
Follow established guidelines for equipment maintenance.
Assist with inventory research projects as requested.
Assist Operations Manager and Supervisor with duties as assigned.
Manage the efficient flow of inbound material by directing and supervising receiving team.
Complete all safety training.
Maintain acceptable attendance in accordance with policy.
Meet productivity standards with error ratio standard (1 per 1,000).
Maintain housekeeping assignments.
Comply with necessary PPE, as required.
Has the authority to stop production if defective or unsafe parts or condition appear.
Has the authority to reject non-conforming material from the supplier.
Is empowered to prevent non-conforming material from reaching the customer.