Safety Coordinator

Department: Human Resources

Location: West Chicago, IL

Minimum Salary: $61,082

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Shift: 2nd Shift

Scheduled Work Hours: 2pm-10:30pm OR 3pm-11:30pm Monday- Friday, Saturdays as needed

For nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud of being awarded the Great Place to Work certification, along with being recognized as a Best Workplace to Work in Chicago and Best Workplace to Work in Manufacturing and Production. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a SAFETY COORDINATOR. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The Safety Coordinator will work closely with our Safety Manager by maintaining a variety of safety, health and/or environmental programs to ensure practical, cost-effective measures are in place within the workplace to continuously improve our safety culture and to assure the highest possible degree of safety for employees.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Coordinate and provide safety training programs for new employees along with monthly and annual required programs in both English and Spanish.
• Assist with the creation of and implementation of various projects, such as Personal Protective Equipment assessments, Safety Data Sheet organization, GHS labeling, training organization and improvements, chemical inventories, lab equipment safety, and/or procedure updates.
• Ensures OSHA compliance through auditing required programs such as: powered industrial trucks (forklift), confined spaces, LOTO, fire extinguishers, hearing test and other programs.
• Identify and evaluate hazardous conditions, compliance, and practices during on-site inspections and audits.
• Ensure corrective action processes are in place for responding to and correcting safety audit findings.
• Compiles required safety reports, statistics and other data as requested.
• Performs other duties and/or assignments as directed.
• Conduct or assist with safety-related training as needed.
• Develop department level safety committees and conduct required monthly meetings.
• Complete and document monthly safety audits of all departments.
• Conduct Job Hazard Analysis on high-risk processes to help eliminate or reduce injuries.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bilingual English/Spanish required with the ability to communicate verbally and written.
• 2 years of experience within a manufacturing environment preferred.
• General knowledge of occupational safety within a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Previous coursework and training in Occupational Safety Requirements, Environmental, Safety & Occupational Health Management and/or OSHA guidelines is preferred.
• Some college, with classes within health and safety or a related field preferred but not required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES

• Effective communication skills, verbal/written including public speaking and presentation skills.
• Ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using sound judgment that is consistent with company standards, practices, procedures, regulations, or laws.
• Work well in a team setting, as well as individually with minimal supervision.
• Interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish effective professional relationships with employees and management.
• Leadership skills with the ability to positively engage employees in support of safe work practices.
• Have strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal skills, and be a self-starter.
• Possesses a continuous improvement mindset with strong problem-solving skills.
• Established as credible and trustworthy leader.
• Maintains a high level of confidentiality.
• Advanced computer skills, including the ability to create and maintain spreadsheets and effectively put a presentation together.

BENEFITS & SALARY

The Jel Sert Company is committed to pay transparency and will provide further compensation information during the interview process. The minimum compensation for the Safety Coordinator is $61,082. Compensation is determined by a candidate’s experience, education, skills, training, and the internal equity within our organization. Actual compensation to be paid will be determined upon an offer. In addition to a competitive compensation package, regular full-time corporate employees of Jel Sert are eligible for our extensive benefits programs that can be reviewed here.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection).
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures and be able to discern differences between red/green/amber.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This position will work between the Manufacturing and office environment. One can expect to be out on the manufacturing floor up to 50% of their time. Will need to be available to spend time on all 3 shifts when required. Work hours are very flexible.

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.

Back up Safety Manager

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

This job is essential to ensure that Jel Sert is adhering and following safety regulations and standards through continuous and pro-active communication with Jel Sert manufacturing and warehouse operations employees and management. Also plays a key role in working towards minimizing worker’s compensation costs through administration of claims and communications with affected employees.