Safety Technician (Eastover, SC) - Austin Industrial

Rate: $31.83 USD per hour

Description

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

This is a fulltime job working 40 hours a week. No Per Diem and no relocation assistance.

Safety Technician

Responsibilities include executing the site safety program on an assigned project. Educates and trains Austin project staff in safety requirements, best practices in incident preventions. Ensures compliance with company and customer safety policies. Other duties may be assigned.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must be a journeyman Safety Technician with 3 to 5 years of experience.

• Must have current OSHA 30 card/certification.

• Build working relationships with customer representatives, project staff, and subcontractor safety representatives.

• Assist in creating accurate safety reports and accident investigation documents.

• Assist in staff safety training and subcontractor development.

• Represent company in a positive and professional manner with the customer and subcontractors.

• Create and facilitate safety trainings and orientations aligned with project specifics and schedules.

• Ensure compliance with the company’s current safety manual, policies and expectations.

• Majority of time spent in the field observing work, coaching, auditing, and engaging craft employee-owners.

• Help project supervision resolve safety problems and issues in the field.

• May fill in for site HSE manager during absences.

• Must be able to perform work wearing personnel protective equipment. Including but not limited to the following: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; work at heights; balance for extended periods of time.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Education – OSHA 30

Experience – 3 to 5 years of experience in the industrial maintenance and construction industry.

Must pass medical and background check, as a condition of employment.

This is a fulltime job working 40 hours a week. No Per Diem and no relocation assistance.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) and Spanish (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088\_EEOC\_KnowYourRightsSp\_10\_20.pdf) .

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

• This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

• Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

Accessibility Note

• If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

Qualifications

Licenses & Certifications

Required

• OSHA 30

• Valid Driver's License

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.

For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.