Health and Safety Administrator jobs in Beaumont, TX

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About you and this role - What you will do in this role

In this role, you will serve as a Health & Safety Technician for Dow's East Texas HUB (ETH) Safety Team located in Orange, TX.  The East Texas HUB is made up of the Sabine River Operations (SRO) and the Beaumont sites and is strategically located in the heart of the Dow Gulf Coast sites. As part of these high value sites in the Dow fleet, you will have opportunity to learn and deepen your skills across several different technologies and processes.

You will share in the responsibility for the implementation of the Health & Safety (H&S) management system, to meet business objectives and to maintain the license to operate. As a Health & Safety Technician, you will provide hands-on industrial hygiene (IH) and health and safety (H&S) services to a wide customer base within the plants.

The Health & Safety Technician role is ideal for an experienced safety professional that:

• has a history of proven results requiring minimum supervision.
• exhibits strong multi-tasking, problem solving and time management skills.
• can lead by influence and collaborate with people of various backgrounds and experiences to achieve common goals.
• can clearly communicate verbally and in writing to internal and external partners.
• is skilled at building a high level of trust with stakeholders, utilizing the highest standard of ethics and integrity.
• demonstrates advanced skills and expertise in safety processes, procedures, and systems to perform a broad range of complex work assignments.
• can establish and maintain collaborative relationships with operations and maintenance personnel, including site and facility leadership.
• enthusiastically pursues a standard of excellence in H&S performance.
• is motivated to work in an environment of change and adapt positively to it.

The Details:

As the Health & Safety Technician, you will be ready to take on the following challenges and bring value to Dow as you:

• Coordinate, implement, and optimize detailed, task level, day to day EH&S programs utilizing the EH&S work process, standards, and procedures.
• Ensure that all IH, Health, and Safety aspects of operating discipline are effectively applied to achieve H&S performance goals. In most cases, you may be an owner for the H&S sections of Dow operating discipline system.
• Act as the Plant resource for related H&S information on procedures, guidelines, and standards.
• Serve as plant contact for IH and Health & Safety issues.
• Serve as an active member on facility EH&S Team.
• Coach teams and individuals on H&S related tasks and activities.
• Assist in developing and achieving area or plant H&S goals through collaboration with facility leadership.
• Ensure compliance tasks are completed.
• Perform or coordinate IH monitoring, data collection, analyzing and reporting for the Plant.
• Coordinate the audit schedule in the Safety & Health related areas.
• Participate in the Health & Safety related reviews and projects, as required.
• Participate in or lead Root Cause Analysis for H&S events, which could include gathering information, participation in incident investigations as Health & Safety Subject Matter Expert (SME) and ensuring follow up actions are completed to prevent re-occurrence.
• Perform Health & Safety Review for Management of Change (MOCs).
• Initiate and support MOC for Health & Safety standards, rules and processes in a timely manner and ensure MOC closure.
• Perform assessments of H&S standards and work processes as assigned.
• Develop and deliver training, as needed, to drive site or facility H&S knowledge.
• Act as a working team lead, providing subject matter guidance and coordinating work of others, as required.
• Demonstrate your commitment to a safe work environment by working safely and complying with environmental, health and safety standards.

• Prove your commitment to maintain ethical integrity in both successes and setbacks.

Qualifications - Required education, experience and abilities that are needed for this role (must haves)

• A minimum of a High School Diploma or GED.
• 4 or more years of relevant experience in either an EH&S role or industrial manufacturing environment.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications, such as Word and Excel, with ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Must be willing to work weekends, and holidays, when required.
• Must be willing to work overtime when required.
• Must have valid US Driver’s License.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Skills - An expanded list of qualifications that are "nice to have", but not essential

• 5 or more years of experience of EH&S and manufacturing or operations related experience.
• Candidate with defined examples of ownership and engagement in facility EH&S.
• Associates degree, or higher, in relevant field OR 3 years military experience.

Physical Requirements:

Candidate MUST be willing and able to do the following with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Wear required safety equipment, such as earplugs, goggles, and steel-toed shoes.
• Wear and use respirators.
• Climb stairs/ladders and work high off the ground.
• Stand or walk for extended periods of time. 
• Essential functions of this position may require use of safety equipment with weight limit thresholds that include the total of the individual’s weight plus any other tools/items carried to tools and other items and materials. Example: Safety equipment rated for a maximum weight limit of 300 total pounds.

All job offers are conditional and require a pre-employment medical examination to ensure ability to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

**The Dow Chemical Company does not offer relocation assistance for this position.  This includes reimbursement for travel expenses incurred to and from test sessions/interviews.  If you apply for a position that is not within the area in which you reside, you will be responsible for all costs that you incur. **

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.  

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. 
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building. 
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs. 
• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
  • Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).  
  • ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.  
  • Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation. 

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About Dow

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