Safety Professional

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Job Description

The Safety Specialist II will enhance Cleco’s capability in the development and implementation of fundamental safety programs. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to provide a safe environment and to ensure compliance with all federal, state and local rules and regulations. Under the direction of management, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, training and providing professional consultation and technical expertise associated with health and occupational safety matters.

Key Responsibilities.

- Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, diversity and inclusion, customer service, and operational excellence.

- Develop safety-related training material and perform training on safety management processes. Assist employees with implementation of new safety initiatives.

- Assist in the development and delivery of regulatory and company required safe rules, policies, and procedures.

- Provide a visible safety presence in the field with operations, maintenance, and contract work groups.

- Serve as subject matter expert for operations, maintenance, and engineering on projects to ensure compliance with all applicable safety requirements.

- Participate in safety assessments, that could be across company departments building knowledge and capability throughout the organization around safe work practices.

- Participate in incident investigations, enhancing capability throughout the organization to conduct effective investigations that focus on determining root cause(s), learning, prevention recurrence and recommend corrective measures.

- Coach and mentor personnel to facilitate ownership of Human Performance at all levels of the organization.

- Provide leadership to transmission and distribution and generation safety committees and compliance system owners to ensure maximum value creation.

- Conducts site safety observations focused on safe work practices and conduct coaching conversations with workers when corrections are required.

- Reviews JHAs and JSB-tailboards to ensure tasks, hazards and mitigations are in alignment with the work being performed in the field.

- Oversite of fundamental safety programs include, but are not limited to: Confined Space Entry, Emergency Response, Electrical Safe Work Practices, Lockout-Tagout, Fall Protection, Line Break Equipment Opening, Incident Investigation, Mobile Equipment, Personal Protective Equipment, Insulating Protective Equipment, Switching and Clearance, Protective Grounding Practices, Process Safety Management, and lifesaving procedures.

- Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with managers, supervisors, employees and contractors to ensure alignment with Cleco’s goals and safety culture.

- May be responsible for performing or ensuring health testing, air monitoring, noise monitoring, and hazard risk assessments are conducted, as required.

- Qualifications

- Required Education, Skills & Experience - Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or other applicable curriculum or equivalent work experience.

- Equivalent work experience is minimum 3-5+ years of related experience with prior safety experience preferred.

- Step progression levels based on skill proficiency and scope of job.

- Strong business acumen pertaining to the Utility industry

- Strong knowledge of leading practices for their practice area

- Strong planning and project management skills.

- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job.

- Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner.

Licenses and Certifications - Certifications such as ASP, CSP, CSHO, COSS, CUSP, OSHT, and CHST are a plus.

Primary Competencies

BEHAVIORAL

- Attracts top talent

- Balances stakeholders

- Builds effective teams.

- Business insight.

- Communicates effectively

- Courage

- Demonstrates self-awareness

- Develops talent

- Drives Results

- Drives vision and purpose

- Ensures Accountability

- Instills trust

- Nimble learning

- Plans and Aligns

- Safety

- Strategic mindset

TECHNICAL

- Analytical skills

- Compliance

May perform other duties as assigned.

Salary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.