Safety Specialist
Best Friends Animal Society

Location: Kanab, Utah

Hiring Range: This position's hiring range is anticipated to be $57,000 to $67,000 annually, depending on experience, plus great benefits!

Interviews will occur weekly until the position is filled.

Summary: The Safety Specialist supports the development and maintenance of a strong safety culture and advancement of organizational safety goals through the implementation of safety programs and procedures, development and delivery of targeted training, performance of audits and inspections, provision of operational support for safety committee(s), and promotion of safe work practices at all levels of the organization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Treat people around you with Kindness and Compassion, build trust by demonstrating authenticity and following through on your commitments, prioritize your well-being like you do our mission, and work to build strong relationships with your colleagues by participating in communication loops to share and receive honest feedback. You are responsible and accountable for the culture you add to your team dynamic.
  
• Lead the performance of safety inspections at Kanab-based facilities and make recommendations for correcting identified unsafe conditions and work practices, and work with internal business partners to ensure the completion of identified corrective actions.
  
• Maintain hazard, incident, and investigation reports in accordance with departmental procedures and regulatory standards.
  
• Implement, and maintain safety programs and procedures to eliminate, control, or mitigate injury and illness hazards and to comply with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
  
• Manage safety training programs, procedures, and records.
  
• Periodically report on training progress and work with department management to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory safety training requirements.
  
• Oversee the safety committees and lead the process of ensuring compliance with assigned corrective, preventive, or other actions.
  
• Research and recommend options for safety products to meet OSHA and NIOSH standards.
  
• Prepare special reports, memos and other documentation as requested.
  
• Other duties as assigned.
  

Skills and Experience:

• Customer-centric, non-judgmental approach to engaging with adopters, partners, visitors, volunteers, and colleagues; familiarity and comfort with an open adoption process.
  
• Resourceful, get-it-done attitude; initiative to assist in any area or process; problem solving, seeking answers independently and enthusiastically; flexibility to persist until lifesaving outcome goals are achieved; demonstrated leadership skills.
  
• Strong interpersonal skills, a team player, personable, professional, and able to get along with people from different backgrounds, as well as the ability to handle sensitive and confidential situations.
  
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with well-developed organization skills to juggle multiple competing tasks and demands.
  

Physical Requirements:

• Perform daily strenuous activity including, but not limited to lifting up to 40 pounds, carrying, reaching, stooping, squatting, cleaning, and bending.
  
• Work at a computer or driving a car for extended periods of time with repetitive typing, sitting, arm, and hand motion.
  
• Work indoors and outdoors in a variety of weather conditions including extreme heat and cold.
  
• Valid driver's license, ability to qualify to be added to Best Friends insurance, ability to travel, including overnight stays, when needed.
  
• Daily hours and days of the week may vary according to the needs of the department schedule.
  

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends Animal Society is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, or domestic partner status.

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Best Friends Animal Society.

Culture Statement and Responsibility

We value attitude over aptitude, and we treat Kindness as a discipline because it is paramount in our culture along with our other Guiding Principles. Culture is how we talk to and treat ourselves and one another, it's how we generate and respond to change, it's how we plan and make decisions, it's how we do what we do.

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