About This Position
DSC Dredge in Poplarville, MS is seeking a Health, Safety & Environmental Specialist to lead our HSE efforts. This role will support approximately 70 manufacturing team members in Poplarville, and will spend at least a few days per month in our Reserve, LA facility working with the HSE Manager to create programs and innovate safe and effective processes and procedures.
Position Responsibilities
- Assists in development of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable HSE federal, state and local legislation and codes governing health, safety and environmental matters.
- Directs safety programs to ensure a safe environment is maintained and compliance with safety standards are met.
- Manages permitting, tracking and reporting for all environmental issues including water, equipment and air as applicable.
- Assesses risk potentials of workplace hazards and designs plans to mitigate employee exposure.
- Conducts on-site reviews and audits of operations and facilities.
- Interfaces with HSE regulatory agencies, including fulfilling reporting requirements.
- Monitors all current information on HSE regulations and requirements and modifies programs to meet standards.
- Ensures requirements of customer’s HSE programs are met by working directly with customer or compliance companies retained by customer.
- Ensures corrective action plan follow-ups are completed.
- Conducts accident investigation, data analysis, and recurrence prevention programs and procedures.
- Delivers employee HSE training including OSHA & MSHA required topics.
- Partners with the Human Resources Manager for workplace incident reporting and investigations.
- Investigates and evaluates all new HSE equipment.
- Responds and provides assistance to all emergency situations.
- Facilitates monthly safety committee meetings while ensuring appropriate participation amongst all departments.
- Provides monthly safety reviews during all staff meetings, in addition to any necessary training that needs to take place.
- Advises managers to establish safety objectives, plan programs to achieve those objectives and consistently integrates safety into the culture of the organization.
Minimum Requirements
- High School diploma or GED; Associates Degree or Bachelors Degree from a 2-4 year college or university in Risk Management, Industrial Safety and Health, Safety Engineering, Safety Management, or closely related field, is preferred.
- Minimum of 2-3 years experience in HSE field preferably in manufacturing or construction, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Certification in HSE field (such as CSP, ARM, CIH, COSS, OSHA 30) is preferred.
DSC Dredge, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This technologically driven company takes pride in being the world's leader in customized dredging solutions.