Environmental Heath and Safety Officer

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1.

Workplace Safety and EHS Program (35 %)

• Assess current engineering, laboratory, fabrication, shop, and manufacturing operations for workplace hazards and opportunities for improvement.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve practical safety policies, procedures, and work practices appropriate for Kaleidoscope's operations.
• Advise leadership on applicable OSHA requirements, recognized industry practices, and other relevant occupational safety requirements.
• Conduct routine workplace inspections and periodic formal safety audits.
• Identify unsafe conditions or practices and work with responsible stakeholders to establish corrective actions.
• Track significant safety findings and corrective actions through closure.
• Help establish appropriate safety metrics and periodically report safety status, trends, risks, and priorities to management.
• Support investigation of incidents, injuries, near misses, and significant safety observations, including identification of root causes and preventive actions.

2.

Project & Process Hazard Review (25 %)

• Participate in the review of new or non-routine engineering, fabrication, testing, and manufacturing activities before work begins.
• Facilitate or support job hazard analyses (JHAs/JSA), process hazard assessments, equipment risk assessments, and other appropriate hazard-review methods.
• Evaluate hazards associated with machinery, tooling, fixtures, test equipment, pressure systems, electrical systems, chemicals, thermal processes, mechanical energy, lifting, material handling, and other operations relevant to Kaleidoscope's work.
• Review prototype and experimental test setups where conventional production safeguards may not yet exist.
• Recommend engineering controls, administrative controls, PPE, training, guarding, interlocks, procedures, or other mitigations appropriate to identified hazards.
• Establish criteria for determining when a formal safety review is required before a project or activity proceeds.
• Verify that significant project hazards have been adequately identified and controlled prior to commencement of higher-risk work.
• Escalate unresolved safety risks to appropriate leadership when project teams and the Safety Officer cannot reach agreement.

3.

Equipment & Facility Safety (20 %)

• Review new, modified, relocated, or internally developed equipment for safety considerations prior to use.
• Advise on machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, emergency stops, stored-energy hazards, compressed gases, pressure systems, ventilation, chemical handling, fire prevention, ergonomics, and related areas.
• Partner with Facilities and operational leaders on facility-level safety improvements.
• Assist in establishing inspection and maintenance requirements for safety-critical equipment and safeguards.
• Review contractor activities when they introduce material safety risks to Kaleidoscope personnel or facilities.

4.

Procedures, Training & Documentation (20 %)

• Develop and maintain safety procedures that are appropriately scaled to a fast-moving engineering and manufacturing organization.
• Establish or improve programs as applicable for areas such as:

• Lockout/tagout and control of hazardous energy
• Machine and equipment safety
• Personal protective equipment
• Hazard communication and chemical safety
• Electrical safety
• Compressed gases and pressure systems
• Hot work
• Material handling and lifting
• Emergency response and evacuation
• Incident and near-miss reporting
• Contractor safety
• Laboratory and prototype-testing safety

• Determine required safety training by role and activity.
• Deliver or coordinate safety training and maintain appropriate training records.
• Provide concise, practical guidance that personnel can readily apply to project work.