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Safety Professional

The Safety Professional develops plans, organizes, coordinates, and monitors safety programs to ensure compliance with occupational safety and health regulations, company and client policies and procedures. This is a site-based role based about 55 miles from Idaho Falls, ID at the Naval Reactors Facility on the Idaho National Lab. This position requires 95% outdoors and 5% office/administrative duties. The candidate will start on the night shift doing environmental work and then transition to a safety role in winter. Typical duties include:

• Investigates accidents to determine causes; prepares reports of investigations for use in recommendation of preventive measures and the development of safety programs
• Inspects worksites; prepares reports with recommendations for corrective actions
• Uses industrial hygiene monitoring equipment to test working areas for noise, toxic and other chemical and physical hazards
• Observes craft work to ensure compliance with policies and procedures
• Provides/develops technical safety training
• Conducts safety management training for supervisory and management personnel
• Assesses safety and health program performance; identifies trends through data analysis

Essential Functions: Intermittent sitting, walking, standing, bending, squatting, climbing, kneeling, twisting, and lifting. Lifting requirements limited to 50 lbs. in the form of supplies, drawings, etc. Longest distance carried of 100 feet. Hand manipulation is required for simple grasping, pushing and pulling, and fine manipulation. Right and/or left hands utilized. Occasional need to reach and/or work above the shoulder, for supplies, as well as below the shoulder for same. No foot controls necessary. Must be alert to equipment in the field, there will be occasional travel, will work near construction job site equipment when in the field, occasional need to work near hazardous equipment and machinery, continuous need to walk on uneven ground thus good balance and the ability to traverse construction site environment a must, potential exposure to dust, gas or fumes, noise, extremes in temperature (heat and cold) or humidity, and potential work at heights.