Environmental Health & Safety Specialist 2

Overview

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead projects aimed at anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling safety hazards.
• Ensure the EHS Management System elements are applied effectively throughout operations. Develop new procedures, inspections, trainings, or reports as needed.
• Drive thorough investigations for all incidents and accidents and ensure timely completion of corrective actions. Lead the team in developing effective root cause analysis and countermeasures.
• Develop and guide management to improve their effectiveness as safety leaders.
• Effectively communicate company metrics to functional teams and leadership.
• Conduct site audits, inspections, evaluations, and reviews as necessary.
• Provide safety and process safety expertise for engineering and design.
• Support deliberate improvement efforts to improve overall EHS program performance.
• Evaluate existing or emergent risk management control technologies and provide information, regulatory assessment, and interpretation and required reporting, and technical expertise to management and employees.
• Analyze and assess plant safety trend data to drive safety resource allocation and drive ergonomic initiatives to reduce injuries.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Must be able to work 2nd shift. 
• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety or related disciplines or equivalent subject matter knowledge skills and abilities acquired through work.
• 3 years’ experience working in a position with responsibility for safety programs preferably in a manufacturing or industrial segment.
• Experience developing and implementing safety programs, policies, and training.
• Ability to be self-directed and complete work with minimal day-to-day supervision.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ASP, CSP, CIH, CHMM, or other professional certification.
• Experience working with union partnerships.
• Applied knowledge in health and safety disciplines including Hazard Communication, LOTO, Confined Space, Electrical Safety, Fall Protection, Incident Investigation, Ergonomics, Behavioral Based Safety, Machine Guarding and Lean Manufacturing
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Understanding of ISO 45001

Essential Duties and Physical Demands:

• Ability to walk/stand frequently per shift
• Ability to climb limited per shift
• Ability to sit frequently per shift
• ability to lift/carry and push/pull 

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.