Safety Leader - Full Time

Description

Position Summary:

The Safety Leader facilitates and leads Treeline’s health and risk management program. They collaborate with all team leaders and team members to actively minimize risk and provide safe working conditions for all employees.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute to developing and maintaining a safe working environment.
• Maintain personal safety and watch out for the safety of others.
• Comply with all OSHA safety guidelines.
• Communicate with team members and customers in a positive and collaborative manner. 
• Communicate both effectively and tactfully with a wide variety of individuals in person, on the telephone, through email, and via two-way radio.
• Consistently maintain a positive and problem-solving attitude.  
• Understands and adheres to Treeline’s employment handbook.
• Develop and train employees on HazCom policies. 
• Develop and train employees on Lock Out Tag Out procedures.
• Develop and train employees on emergency action plan. 
• Write, improve, and maintain job descriptions and job safety analyses for each job function. 
• Perform incident investigations to determine root causes. 
• Complete incident reports.
• Ensure follow-up on incidents to prevent future repeats.
• Assist with worker’s compensation, OSHA claims, and injury recovery. 
• Perform facility inspections with appropriate follow-up to ensure safety performance and compliance. 
• Perform inspections and visits to jobsites with appropriate follow-up to ensure safety performance and compliance.  
• Attain and maintain SHARP certification. 
• Perform hazard and risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies.  
• Attend Forest Product Group and other related safety meetings and implement pertinent information learned there within Treeline’s safety culture.
• Lead bimonthly safety team meetings within Treeline. 
• Lead safety trainings.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Possess excellent positive communications skills through telephone, email, and in-person visits with team members, customers, and other professionals.
• Must be results-orientated and able to work both independently and within a team environment. 
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• The ability to work as part of a team. 
• Ability to change plans on the go.
• Possess computer keyboard skills and or ability to learn through training.
• Behave Ethically: Understand ethical behavior and business practices and ensure own behavior and the behavior of others are consistent with these standards and align with the values of the organization.
• Build Relationships: Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others both internally and externally to achieve the goals of the organization.
• Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen and write in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques.
• Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Make Decisions: Assess situations to determine the importance, urgency and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
• Organization: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals, and track details/data/information/activities.
• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create and implement actions plans, and evaluate the process and results.
• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.

Physical and Environmental Requirements:

• Sitting – up to 80%
• Standing – up to 50%
• Walking – up to 50%
• Driving – up to 30%
• Frequent use of both hands
• Be able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Very accurate near vision; accurate far vision
• Minimal color discrimination and depth perception
• The ability to work outdoors
• The ability to work in all temperatures
• Wear OSHA required PPE