• Job Description

  Req#: SAFET018335

  About Austin Industrial

  Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.

  Safety Technician

  Responsibilities include executing the site safety program on an assigned project. Educates and trains Austin project staff in safety requirements, best practices in incident preventions. Ensures compliance with company and customer safety policies. Other duties may be assigned.

  Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Build working relationships with customer representatives, project staff, and subcontractor safety representatives.
  • Assist in creating accurate safety reports and accident investigation documents
  • Assist in staff safety training and subcontractor development
  • Represent company in a positive and professional manner with the customer and subcontractors
  • Create and facilitate safety trainings and orientations aligned with project specifics and schedules
  • Participate in safety organizations outside of the company and in assigned region
  • Ensure compliance with the company’s current safety manual, policies, and expectations
  • Majority of time spent in the field observing work, coaching, auditing, and engaging craft employee-owners
  • Help project supervision resolve safety problems and issues in the field
  • Fill in for site HSE manager during absences
  • Other duties as assigned.

  Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

  Qualifications Required for this Position:

  Education – no minimum education requirements.

  Experience – 2 years of maintenance and construction experience.

  Certification/License: a Valid Driver’s License

  Austin ("The Company") is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy prohibits discrimination against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company's policy to comply with all federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

  Qualifications

  Experience

  Required 3 years

  Safety Technician

  Licenses & Certifications

  Required

  Valid Driver's License

• About the company

  Austin Industries was founded by Charles R.Moore in 1918. But the Austin name first became known in the Texas bridge building field when George Austin came to Dallas in 1889 as an agent for the George E. King Bridge Co. of Des Moines, Iowa. His brother...

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