Sr. Safety Specialist

FNS•Phoenix, AZ

4d•Onsite

About The Position

FNS is seeking a Sr. Safety Specialist to join their team in Phoenix, AZ. This full-time role focuses on maintaining and improving safety programs, ensuring compliance with regulations, and promoting a safe working environment. The company emphasizes core values of trust, communication, team play, challenge, and balance, aiming to be a top logistics provider with excellent employee and customer satisfaction. FNS promotes a family-like working environment that supports work-life balance and fosters cooperation and care among team members.

Requirements

Three or more years of hands-on EHS or safety compliance experience in industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, or heavy equipment operations, including multi-site responsibility.
Working knowledge of applicable Arizona occupational safety requirements and federal OSHA general industry standards.
Familiarity with emergency planning, HazCom, PPE, powered industrial trucks, and injury recordkeeping.
Experience leading inspections, investigations, training, corrective action tracking, and document control.
Ability to communicate professionally with regulators and customers.
Strong English communication skills.
Valid driver's license.
Ability to travel between sites.
Ability to walk industrial yards.
Ability to work around operating equipment while following site safety rules.

Nice To Haves

Spanish fluency is strongly preferred.
Ability to train or arrange effective training for Spanish speaking employees.

Responsibilities

Maintain site-specific accident prevention/safety plans, emergency action plans, fire prevention procedures, hazard communication programs, PPE assessments, equipment rules, and applicable permits.
Keep controlled copies of safety documents available at each site and maintain current digital backups.
Maintain an indexed evidence system for training, inspections, drills, audits, and corrective actions, distinguishing preventive records from post-incident actions.
Lead routine self-inspections, document findings with owners and due dates, verify closure, and prepare records for various inspections.
Coordinate citation responses with Corporate Safety and counsel.
Set and enforce site-specific PPE rules based on hazard assessments.
Coach supervisors and document consistent follow-through with employees and staffing agencies.
Oversee pedestrian and vehicle separation, traffic plans, yard and dock controls, and various equipment operations (forklifts, straddle carriers, reach stackers, yard tractors, trailers, shuttle activity).
Verify authorized operators, training, evaluations, pre-use checks, maintenance escalation, and safe towing/recovery procedures.
Conduct job hazard analyses for non-routine work, contractor work, and equipment changes; coordinate safety controls.
Maintain chemical inventories, accessible safety data sheets, labels, and hazard communication training for workplace chemicals.
Coordinate response plans for battery damage, thermal events, spills, and fires with site leadership and local responders.
Plan and document emergency exercises and evacuation drills.
Inspect emergency routes, eyewash/spill supplies, and fire protection interfaces.
Deliver orientation and recurring role-specific training in understandable language, using interpreters or bilingual trainers as needed.
Maintain training records, including rosters, sign-in sheets, materials, competency checks, and retraining triggers.
Investigate injuries, near misses, equipment damage, and unsafe conditions; preserve evidence, identify causes, assign corrective actions, and verify effectiveness.
Support injury and illness recordkeeping and timely regulator notifications.
Partner with operations leaders and staffing agencies to apply corrective coaching and discipline.
Track repeat findings and report unresolved or imminent hazards promptly.