Market Area Safety Specialist

Safety Manager

Responsible for the development and execution of all Safety strategic goals and offers safety related budgetary guidance for the Area in accordance with WM Safety Services guidance. The role is located in Atlanta, GA and is responsible for ensuring our sites adhere to safety standards. This role requires 70% travel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Corporate/Market Area Safety Strategy: Works closely with Corporate and Market Area Senior Leadership Teams to understand, support, and align safety strategy, goals, and objectives.

• Drive Cam System Management: Oversees, manages, and consults with Market Area and Site leaders on Drive Cam System Management.
• Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention Program Management: Identifies, reduces, and eliminates tasks that present a high risk for serious injury and or fatality. Applies SIF logic to identify job tasks, activities, and situations that present a high SIF risk.
• Safety Communications: Works closely with EH&S team to ensure appropriate dissemination and implementation of EH&S policies, corporate safety communications, and initiatives.
• Incident Management: Determines severity and initiates formal investigation as necessary. Ensures all relevant incident data is captured in the WM EH&S portal. Creates and disseminates both qualitative and quantitative reports on Site and or Market Area incidents analyses.
• District Specific Safety Plan: Analyzes incident trends and works close with both Market Area and Site Leadership to ensure DSSP is in place and operational.
• Hazardous Energy Control Program: Has oversight of the WM Hazardous Energy Control Program and is able to direct, train and coach others on the relevant topics to ensure HECP protocols are being followed.
• Regulation (DOT, OSHA, etc.) Management: Has knowledge of Federal, State/Provincial DOT/OSHA regulations as they pertain to WM operational requirements.
• WM / Customer Facilities Compliance Management: Management capabilities to oversee site/safety management systems. Can conduct reviews of new equipment installs. Ensures inclement weather / natural disaster preparedness plans are in place. Conducts Safety Audits / Inspections and assists with commercial insurance management issues.
• Safety Recognition Program Management: Establish performance criteria/thresholds and feedback mechanism for effectiveness evaluation.
• Employee Health Management: Works closely with Corporate Subject Matter Experts to ensure all sites are following the Medical Monitoring Program and are in adherence to the WM Industrial Hygiene Program Management.
• Protective Equipment Management: Is considered the SME on WM PPE policies and procurement for their Market Area.
• People Development (Safety specific): Must be able to constructively develop and coach others on overall risk management and safety topics.
• Employee Observations: Can coach and train Market Area Safety Specialist, market area leaders on safety trends from EH&S Portal, DriveCam, and SIF data.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory duties.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma and four years of relevant work experience.
• Experience: 5 years to seven years in Safety or Operations Management.

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Preferred
• Certified Industrial Hygienist Preferred
• Professional Engineer (PE) License Preferred
• Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) Preferred
• Registered Environmental Manager (REM) Preferred
• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) Preferred

• Strong knowledge in Safety Rules & Regulations including DOT and OSHA, strong communication and leadership skills, and public speaking experience required.
• Execution: Ensuring others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities, measuring progress, and ensuring accountability against those metrics.
• Planning & Organizing: Establishing an action plan for self and others to complete work efficiently and on time by setting priorities, establishing timelines, and leveraging resources.
• Influencing: Using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes.
• Driving for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.
• Coaching & Developing Others: Providing feedback, instruction, and development guidance to help others excel in their current or future job responsibilities; planning and supporting the development of individual skills and abilities.
• Facilitating Change: Encouraging others to implement better approaches to address problems and opportunities, leading the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace.
• Building Customer Relationships: Ensuring that the customer's internal or external needs are met; building productive relationships with high-priority customers; taking accountability for customer satisfaction and loyalty; using appropriate and interpersonal techniques to prevent and resolve escalated customer complaints and regain customer confidence.

Benefits: At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days.