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Safety Technician- Austin Industrial (Phoenix,AZ)

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

To learn more about us, visit .

Safety Technician

Responsibilities for developing and implementing safety policies, conducting training, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment. Construction: With high-risk tasks like working at heights, heavy machinery operation and managing hazardous materials, construction companies require rigorous safety oversight. Manufacturing: Factories and production facilities have complex machinery and operational hazards. Safety managers ensure that production lines are not only efficient but also safe. Oil and Gas: In an industry known for its high risks, safety managers implement strict protocols to prevent accidents and environmental hazards. Transportation and Utilities: These sectors face challenges such as hazardous materials, extreme weather conditions and evolving regulatory standards that require vigilant safety management.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Select and assign staff to separate roles, ensuring equal opportunities in
    hiring and in promotion.
  • Prepare and maintain records, reports, and formulate correspondence
    relative to the job.
  • Monitor and organize special studies and/or analysis of safety programs
    and policies/procedures.
  • Organize and take part in assessing already existing safety
    programs and policies, assessing accident/injury reports, and arranging
    accident/injury-related statistics.
  • Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the need
    arises. Recommend solutions to issues, prevention measures, and other
    avenues for improvement.
  • Identify the training and development needs of company staff.
  • Coordinate various activities like scheduling work assignments,
    monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting clear priorities.
  • Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to find out possible
    unsafe conditions.
  • Collaborate with company medical services unit to provide and
    organize emergency services for injured and/or sick staff.
  • Establish target areas and long-term accident prevention and cost control goals.
  • Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are bound
    to have effect on the organization.
  • Function as a representative of the company when it comes to society or
    industry safety programs.
  • Regularly provide training and coaching across all staff levels as required
    by the government’s safety rules and regulations.
  • Make sure that new employees are well-informed as regards safety
    instructions before they start work, emphasize, and explain any
    form of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions.
  • Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis at workplace
    that ensures calmness.
  • A good safety manager must be someone who pays attention to the
    smallest of details to prevent accidents and/or injuries.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills. This is to
    enable relevant information about different situations to be properly and necessary actions.
  • Must possess and display an elevated level of organizational and coordinating
    abilities at all times.
  • He/she must be someone that is able to prioritize tasks (especially in the
    case of always putting safety first)
  • Must possess the power of persuasion. Most times it is not enough to be
    able to communicate but to also do so in an effective manner. In the
    process of explaining safety policies, good persuasion skills are
    to pass the message across properly.
  • Possess BS or BA in safety management or in any other related field of
    study, while an MS will be an added advantage.
  • Recognized certification(s) in risk management and safety/health
    management.
  • Other duties as assigned.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience – 4 years of maintenance and construction safety experience.

Certification/License: A valid Driver’s License and CSST/NCCER

Physical, Mental & Environmental Requirements

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties. Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces. Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.

Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

Work may be performed in industrial and construction environments with exposure to weather conditions, temperature extremes, noise, dust, fumes, moving equipment, vibration, and other site-specific hazards. Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.

Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English and Spanish.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

Accessibility Note

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

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