Occupational Safety Specialist

Company:

INEOS Oligomers

Grade: 34/35

Salary Range: $102,000 - $152,000 (Salary commensurate with experience)

Organizational context and job purpose

Organizational Context:

INEOS is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products. It comprises 29 businesses each with a major chemical company heritage. Its production network spans 154 sites in 27 countries throughout the world.

INEOS products make a significant contribution to saving life, improving health and enhancing standards of living for people around the world. Our businesses produce the raw materials that are essential in the manufacture of a wide variety of goods: from paints to plastics, textiles to technology, medicines to mobile phones - chemicals manufactured by INEOS enhance almost every aspect of modern life.

The INEOS Oligomers division includes a wide range of products ranging from LAO, PAO and PIB to Specialty Oligomers, iso-paraffines, cyclopentane and isoamylene which are made in Europe and in the Americas and sold worldwide. 

With LAO manufacturing facilities in Canada and Belgium, INEOS Oligomers is one of the large merchant suppliers of Linear Alpha Olefins (LAO).

 LAO is used in a variety of industries, with main markets being comonomers for polyethylene, feedstock for production of lubricants, surfactants, lubricant additives, and paper sizing chemicals, and base stock for drilling fluids. PAO is a synthetic lubricant.

As part of its growth strategy, INEOS Oligomers invested $500 million in a new world scale LAO & PAO production facility located in Chocolate Bayou, Alvin, Texas.

Purpose of the job:

Occupational safety specialist will analyze many types of work environments and work procedures. The Specialist will inspect workplaces for adherence to regulations on safety, health, and the environment. In addition, the incumbent will design programs to prevent disease or injury to workers and damage to the environment.

Environment/ Context

Program Development and Implementation: Develop, implement and oversee execution of written programs to ensure site compliance and sustainability.  Interpretation and implementation of Federal OSHA and industry recognized safety regulations and standards.

Developing and maintaining management information systems which identify potential hazards in all facilities.

Interaction with Federal, State and Local regulatory authorities regarding all Environmental and Sustainability matters, including inspections, audits, recordkeeping, NOV (Notice Of Violation) resolution, normal reporting obligations, surveys and other issues

Responsibilities AND Accountabilities

• Monitor and analyse EH&S Data and calculate metrics and key performance indicators. Monitor and maintain databases to ensure data is accurate and current
• Provide quality assurance and oversight on safety programs and systems including, OSHA compliance, Safety Committees, Audit Reports etc.
• Problem solving including anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace conditions that may cause workers' injury or illness through chemical, physical, ergonomic, or biological exposures.
• Lead internal partners to develop and maintain EH&S Scorecards
• Collect data and participate in annual OSHA Reporting
• Support EH&S communications to include safety meeting development and distribution, Risk Alerts, etc.
• Provide administrative support for web based safety systems
• Use problem solving skills to detect hazardous working conditions and safety problems; check equipment and/or work area regularly. Report or correct unsafe working conditions; make a wide range of recommendations and/or improves safety procedures; enforce safety regulations and procedures as appropriate to role.
• Monitor safety issues after taking corrective action and ensure continued compliance.
• Develop corrective action plans to respond to internal/external audits, inspections and incidents.
• Lead environmental, health and safety audits.
• Review and or author work plans and Job Hazard Analysis daily as part of the operational work team support.
• Maintain and analyze basic records and provide reports on compliance performance to internal customers.
• Recognize a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers. Use problem solving skills to determine whether action is needed.
• Identify the need for and collect information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities.
• Integrate information from a wide variety of sources; detect trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; create relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes.
• Formulate and/or make recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluate options by considering implications and consequences; choose an effective option.
• Implement decisions or initiate action within a reasonable time.
• Include fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
• Identify hazards in the workplace.
• Collect samples of potentially toxic materials for analysis.
• Inspect and evaluate workplace environments, equipment, and practices for compliance with corporate and government health and safety standards and regulations (OSHA)
• Design and implement workplace processes and procedures that help protect workers from potentially hazardous work conditions.
• Investigate accidents and incidents to identify their causes and to determine how they might be prevented in the future.
• Conduct training on a variety of topics such as safety, health, security and emergency preparedness.
• Examine lighting, equipment, ventilation, and other conditions and materials in the workplace that could affect employee health, safety, comfort, and performance.
• Seek to save money by lowering insurance premiums and workers’ compensation payments and by preventing government fines.
• Develop and conduct employee safety and training programs.
• In addition to protecting workers, work to prevent harm to property, the environment, and the public by inspecting workplaces for chemical, physical, radiological, and biological hazards.
• Work with engineers and physicians to control or fix potentially hazardous conditions or equipment. Collect and analyze data in the workplace.

Skills Required

Level of education & Experience in general

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational health, safety, or a related scientific or technical field (engineering, biology, or chemistry) with minimum 10 years’ experience in the petrochemical, chemical or refinery industries or High School Diploma with 15+ years’ experience in the petrochemical, chemical, or refinery industries.

Technical skills

• Strong knowledge of OSHA, NIOSH, ACGIH and EHS legislation, regulations and standards in general.
• Technical expertise must include all of the following: Hazardous Energy Control, Electrical Safety, Line Break, Confined Space Entry, Elevated Work, etc.
• CSP (Certified Safety Professional) Preferred.
• Ergonomists
  • Evaluate the relationship between people, environment and equipment, use findings to improve human interaction with processes and systems in order to maximize workers' comfort, safety, and productivity.
• Health advocate
  • Work to protect people and the environment from hazardous radiation or chemical exposures.
  • Managing and enforcing compliance with heat stress OSHA guidelines
• Industrial or occupational hygienist
  • Identify and monitor exposure to health hazards, including but not limited to lead, asbestos, noise, poisons, communicable diseases, etc.

Behavioral skills

• Strong computer skills
• Communication skills - written and verbal
• Planning and organizing
• Prioritizing
• Problem assessment and problem solving
• Information gathering and information monitoring
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Customer service orientation
• Teamwork

Must be able to acquire a TWIC card

ADA Physical requirements, visual acuity requirements and environmental conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and perform tasks requiring repetitive use of hands.  The employee must occasionally walk, stand, and travel by car, airplane or other means. Exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

Employee must have the ability to see written documents, computer screens and to adjust focus.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.

Work Environment:  This job is performed mainly in a temperature-controlled office environment.

Our culture is one of honesty and integrity with an emphasis on safety, health and environmental performance.On our team, people are acknowledged for embracing new practices that help create real value for customers.