Job TitleSafety Technician
Job Description SummaryJob DescriptionThe Safety Technician reports to the senior field leader, with a dotted line to EHS. They promote a peer-to-peer culture of safety responsibility, safety inclusion, and safety improvement while continuously expanding the site’s safety knowledge through industry-accepted best practices. This role will be heavily involved in the human factors of safety and how to perform work as safely as possible.
Key Responsibilities:
- Safety: Drive safety culture among peers, building peer-to-peer accountability at the site level. Lead safety committees and meetings, creating materials and actions accordingly. Coach technicians on proper site escalation procedures.
- Maintenance: Own safety work orders, site Austin Action Items, projects, and network actions. Inspect technician PPE, tools, and maintenance equipment in order to reduce the likelihood of workplace incidents and injuries, and to maintain a safe working environment.
- Monitoring: Perform job hazard analysis to identify hazards within the workplace. Conduct audits on a timely basis to ensure compliance with Amazon, CWS, and local/state/federal agencies. Facilitate, document, and ensure all employees at the site receive required safety trainings.
- Support: Partner with site leadership to develop an action tracker for Good Catches that require follow-up. Work with safety counterpart and site leadership to download the “CWalk” feedback and provide specific feedback on site safety improvements or concerns based on the information received.
- Communication: Report out safety metrics to site leadership and regional safety managers. Attend Safety meetings to address safety issues that are impacting the customer.
Basic Qualifications:
- Knowledge of complex conveyance, building, and automation systems with a focus on safe operation, repair, and proper Lock Out techniques.
- A working knowledge of OSHA and DOT regulations
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project, with a focus on Excel-based data analysis.
- Ability to work flexible schedules/shifts, ensuring each shift is being audited and engaged equally.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Associates or higher degree from a vocational school or college with a focus on Mechanical or Electrical fields.
Physical Demands:
- Must have the ability to reach overhead, kneel, squat, climb steps/ladders, use an aerial lift, and occasionally lift a maximum of 50 lbs. of equipment.
- Ability to perform tasks wearing appropriate or required PPE, which may include but is not limited to a hard hat, face mask, face shield, and composite toe shoes.
- Regularly required to crouch or bend and reach to perform effective inspections/observations and auditing activities.
- Involves movement between departments, floors, and properties to facilitate work, averaging 6 to 12 miles per day.
- Work in a warehouse environment with fluctuating temperatures.
- Regularly required to type on a computer for 1-2 hours per day.
What’s Next?
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Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $38.41 - $45.19
