Senior Safety Professional

Job Requirements

About the Role & Team

"We Create Happiness.” That’s our vision at Disney Experiences, and it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you’ll help inspire that magic by enabling our teams to push the limits of entertainment and safely create the never-before-seen!" Are you ready to join this team and make an impact?"

As a Senior Safety Professional, you will be an important resource to operating partners. You will drive the identification, assessment, analysis, and solving of a broad spectrum of safety issues across a diverse group of Disney Experiences businesses.

The Senior Safety Professional will report to the Manager, Safety .

What You Will Do

On any given day, as a Senior Safety Professional , you might:

• Serve as an integral partner to the assigned operations team, assisting with developing safety and wellbeing strategies designed to mitigate risk and drive culture

• Understand and deploy Integrated Safety Management principles

• Drive the implementation of safety initiatives, perform risk assessments, job task analysis, analyze injury and illness trend data, evaluate safety performance, find opportunities to identify risk and partner with operations to develop creative mitigation solutions

• Improve performance, review source material (rules, codes, laws, and standards) identify and share industry practices

• Ensure implementation of applicable safety standards and established regulations

• Participate in industrial hygiene monitoring and ergonomic assessments

• Lead and/or participate in incident investigations and follow-ups

• Manage relationships and work as part of a team within a matrix environment with all levels of leadership and employees

• Engage and collaborate with local partners to drive and ensure consistency

• Work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously

• Serve as the Safety & Health Duty Manager on a rotational basis

• Communicate leading and lagging indicator analytics and trends to improve safety

Required Qualifications & Skills

Here’s what you need to be successful at this job:

• 5+ years of occupational safety experience or relevant safety experience

• Education and demonstrated experience in incident investigation, root cause analysis and high hazard risk assessment

• Knowledge of relevant industry standards

• Experience creating, deploying and auditing high hazard safety programs

• A practical understanding of risk-based and data-driven safety approaches, not just rules and enforcement

• Experience with strategic thinking, prioritization, and initiation of tasks

• Resolve conflicts and diffuse difficult situations

• Prioritize competing risks and initiatives in a fast-paced environment

• Confidence communicating with and influencing leaders and employees at all levels

• Strong writing, presentation, and facilitation skills to all levels

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience supporting Engineering Services, Facilities, Building Maintenance, Rides/Attractions & Shows, Construction, or similar technical operations

• Advanced knowledge of OSHA regulations, particularly: Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Electrical Safety, Fall Protection, Confined Space Entry, and Powered Industrial Equipment

• Understanding of Ride Motion Protection and Animation in Motion controls

• Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Engineering, Environmental Health, Occupational Health or related field

Preferred Education

• Master’s Degree in related field

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Disclaimer

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The hiring range for this position in Lake Buena Vista, FL is $101,600 -$136,100 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

This position is with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc., which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

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