Safety Training Officer
About the role
About Us
When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.
The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields – each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.
At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!
If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences – then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!
Position Location
This position is located onsite in Annapolis Junction, MD.
Job Overview
The Safety Officer supports all the functions of a comprehensive environmental safety health and risk program; ensuring that the project is following all federal, state, and local safety regulations. This may involve inspections, filling out government paperwork, sampling wastes and materials, and monitoring tradesmen and contractors performing project activities in all assigned facilities. The Safety Officer ensures compliance with state and federal regulations/guidelines regarding occupational safety and health and chemical wastes. The incumbent will administer programs to ensure employee safety and customer compliance with safety, health and environmental regulations for specified facilities, operations and the visiting public. Additionally, the Safety Officer will conduct accident investigations.
Pay Rate: $42.09 /hourly
Work Model: Onsite/In-Office
Responsibilities
Essential Duties & Job Functions:
- Ensures compliance with safety procedures through inspections, training and evaluations.
- Conducts safety training for all levels of the organization.
- Assists frontline management in root cause investigations and preparation of reports.
- Coordinates safety audits and inspections and coordinates specific audit/inspection processes.
- Participates to develop site-specific safety procedures and new safety procedures.
- Conducts air sampling and monitoring in areas as required and generates required reports.
- Conducts Job Hazard Analysis programs (JHA, AHA, etc.)
- Able to identify and evaluate safety issues and recommend corrective actions to be taken.
- Monitors all hazardous and non-hazardous materials used by company to include, but not limited to: procurement, receiving, storage, use and disposal.
- Acts as an integral member of the Spill Response Team.
- Operates customer and company owned motor vehicles and/or other equipment.
- Knowledgeable in applicable codes, standards and regulations including but not limited to EPA, MDE, OSHA, NFPA, and IBC.
- Supports snow team and other department staff as needed or directed with a requirement of overtime and adjusted schedules.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
Mandatory
- High school graduate or equivalent GED.
- At least (3) years of equivalent job-related experience.
- Possess relevant certifications to show progressive knowledge and growth in field.
- Knowledgeable in applicable codes, standards and regulations including but not limited to EPA, MDE, OSHA, NFPA and IBC.
- Medically and physically able and willing to wear a respirator.
- Ability to deal with a variety of people in a professional, courteous manner in diversified situations.
- Ability to perform assigned work tasks with minimal supervision.
- Able to identify and evaluate safety issues and recommend corrective actions to be taken.
- Ability to pass pre-hire background and drug screen.
- S. Citizenship.
- Ability to obtain and maintain the required intelligence community level clearance.
- Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record.
- Ability to work overtime as needed.
- Ability to lift 50 pounds independently and 75 pounds in a team lift.
- Required to obtain OSHA 501 Trainer credentials after attaining five (5) years of documented safety experience.
Preferred
- Broad based knowledge of general industry and construction methods.
- Possess an active intelligence community level clearance.
- Basic knowledge of industrial hygiene, case management, industrial medical practice (regular and emergency), hazardous materials evaluation / control, workers compensation, and personal protective equipment types / technical detail, ergonomics, and job / task analysis.
Disclosures
Chugach Government Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, disability, genetic factors, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Chugach will provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Chugach Government Solutions or any of its subsidiaries, please email [email protected].
Chugach Government Solutions supports pay transparency and is committed to equitable and competitive compensation practices. Compensation for this role will be determined based on factors including job responsibilities, experience, skills, internal equity, geographic location, and applicable contract requirements. Where required by law, compensation ranges will be provided to candidates during the hiring process.
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