Health & Safety Engineer

Introduction: The Health & Safety Engineer will be responsible for supporting daily health and safety functions at a facility in Bloomsburg, PA. This role requires ensuring that health and safety activities reduce risk, eliminate incidents, and comply with external regulatory requirements and internal management guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and sustain systems to drive compliance, fatality prevention, and injury reduction.
• Act as a key health and safety liaison with location manufacturing, maintenance & engineering departments to assist in executing strategic and tactical health and safety plans.
• Analyze injury and incident data and assist line management in implementing focused injury reduction efforts.
• Provide expertise to proactively address injury reduction efforts.
• Participate in injury/incident investigations to identify root causes and provide recommendations for prevention.
• Lead the location''s industrial hygiene program, including IH sampling plans, IH databases, employee exposure records, and hazardous material management.
• Manage PPE requirements and assist with health and safety audits.
• Maintain knowledge of federal, state, and local health and safety regulations.
• Develop, review, and facilitate health and safety training.
• Assess, evaluate, and minimize risks collaboratively with employees using technical knowledge of health and safety regulations.
• Assist in investigations of health and safety incidents, root cause analysis, and item closure tracking.
• Coordinate the development of systems to ensure accurate and timely metrics per corporate guidelines.
• Implement Human Performance systems and participate in continuing professional education.

Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 1 year of professional experience in health and safety in a manufacturing environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in health and safety in a manufacturing environment.
• Previous Occupational Health & Safety experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience implementing and maintaining health and safety programs.
• Industrial Hygiene experience.
• Experience with Behavior Based Safety programs.
• Experience with Ergonomic assessments.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience with Power BI or Advanced Excel Analytics.
• Experience or exposure to OSHA standards and manufacturing/industrial environments.