Health and Safety Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Participate in incident investigations and facilitate root cause analyses;
• Develop, coordinate and conduct EHS Training;

• Provides expertise and guidance to supervisors and management on EHS matters related to applicable regulations.
• Interface with outside vendors, contractors, and engineers regarding facilities, chemicals, and health, and safety matters;

• Manages and maintains program records. Ensures records are accurate, complete, and compliant. Incorporates relevant documents into departmental files. Organizes records so they are readily accessible;
• Develops, fulfills, monitor and updates the prevention and protection plan;
• Identifies workstations requiring additional medical examinations;
• Identifies the workstations that, at the recommendation of the occupational medicine doctor, require aptitude testing and / or periodic psychological control;
• Monitor the functioning of protection systems and devices, measuring and control equipment, as well as ventilation installations or other installations in the work environment;
• Checks the functioning status of alarm, warning, emergency signaling systems, as well as safety systems.
• Drawing up the intervention plan for fire prevention and extinguishing;
• Elaborates documents specific to PSI activity;
• Other SSM and PSI duties.

Skills and requirements:

• Undergraduate degree from an accredited institute of higher learning preferred;
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in a related field;
• SSM and PSI certificates are mandatory;
• Risk assessor certificate is an advantage;
• Proficient in the use of MS Office suite;
• Ability to work autonomously and ability to adapt in a rapidly growing and evolving workplace;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Medium to advanced English speaker.