Safety Engineer Senior

About the position

The Safety Engineer will support a fast-paced manufacturing/start-up environment by helping establish and maintain a strong safety culture, ensuring regulatory compliance, and proactively identifying and reducing workplace risks. This position will have a strong presence on the production floor and work closely with employees, supervisors, engineering, maintenance, and operations leadership. The ideal candidate is hands-on, proactive, and comfortable working independently while supporting a growing second-shift operation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine floor inspections, safety audits, and hazard assessments.
• Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors and drive corrective actions to completion.
• Investigate incidents, injuries, and near misses and perform root-cause analysis.
• Support compliance with OSHA and applicable federal, state, and local safety requirements.
• Develop and deliver safety training, toolbox talks, and employee communications.
• Support Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), machine guarding, PPE, hazard communication, ergonomics, electrical safety, and emergency response programs.
• Conduct Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs/JSA) and risk assessments for new and existing processes.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations during equipment installation, process changes, and new-product/start-up activities.
• Maintain safety documentation, inspection records, corrective-action tracking, and safety metrics.
• Coach supervisors and employees on safe work practices and help strengthen accountability for safety.
• Serve as the primary safety resource for second-shift operations.

Requirements

• Label: Bachelor's degree and at least 1 year of environmental health, fire safety or safety experience OR Master's degree and no experience OR At least 3 years of environmental health, fire safety or safety experience
• Label: Qualified candidates, excluding current employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States.
• Label: We do not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Environmental Health & Safety, or a related field preferred.
• 3–5+ years of safety experience in manufacturing, industrial, automotive, warehousing, or a start-up environment.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA General Industry (29 CFR 1910) requirements.
• Experience with LOTO, machine guarding, powered industrial trucks, PPE, HazCom, ergonomics, fall protection, and electrical safety.
• Experience conducting incident investigations and root-cause analysis (RCA).
• Ability to recognize hazards and make practical, risk-based recommendations.
• Strong communication and coaching skills with both hourly employees and management.
• Comfortable challenging unsafe practices and holding employees and leaders accountable professionally.
• Able to work independently with limited safety leadership present on second shift.
• Strong organizational, documentation, and follow-through skills.
• Experience in a new facility, manufacturing launch, equipment installation, or rapidly changing start-up environment is highly desirable.

Benefits

• competitive market-based compensation
• comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee wellbeing