Health, Safety, and Environmental Specialist

GKN Automotive is seeking a Health, Safety, and Environmental Specialist in Newton, NC. The role involves developing and maintaining a comprehensive Health and Safety program, conducting inspections, investigations, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Health or 5 years of relevant experience, along with knowledge of OSHA and ISO 14001 standards. This is a full-time position.
Description

Role Purpose

To assist management in building and maintaining a fully functioning Health and Safety program that is capable of achieving world class results through best practices and benchmarking efforts.

Key Responsibilities
• Ensure the development, implementation and updating of required written safety and health programs and plans.
• Conduct investigations into employee inquiries, suggestions and complaints.
• Maintain required safety and health documents/files.
• Conduct periodic safety and health walk-through inspections of all workplace facilities.
• Conduct accident/injury investigations and illness exposure monitoring.
• Monitor program for reporting and investigating “near-miss” situations.
• Responsible for communicating when there is an issue affecting the Environment, Health, Safety or Quality to his / her respective Manager

Qualifications & Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Health, Safety, Engineering or related field or 5 years experience with a heavy background in a Safety related field,
• Background in environmental related fields.
• Working knowledge of OSHA, Fault Tree Analysis, Continuos Improvement, and Office Suite of tools. Self starter, driven, inquizative, detail oriented. All this could be derived from project work of internships that the canidate should be able to show and discuss.
• Ability to work under stress and deadlines
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 standard or environmental management systems.