Description:
Privately-owned custom manufacturer of generator enclosures located in Virginia Beach, Virginia is in search of a Safety & Maintenance Technician. The Safety & Maintenance Technician is responsible for providing support to the executive management team, supervisors, foremen and workers. This position will provide leadership and coordination of the day-to-day safety requirements of the production facility and staff, as well as manage, perform and oversee the maintenance of all production machinery and equipment within the production facilities. The Safety & Maintenance Technician works daily to ensure complete compliance with OSHA standards, and for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace and a functional facility
Responsibilities/Duties:
- Establish and promote a safe and healthy working environment in the business through formulating general safety, fire prevention, health policies/measures and equipment/machinery maintenance schedules
- Assist production management personnel in meeting their obligations under the relevant Occupational Health & Safety legislation, such as ongoing safety education, hazard identification and elimination, forklift training, etc.
- Ensure that the workplace is monitored and is fully in compliance with all applicable OSHA standards, rules and regulations in order to maintain safety in manufacturing facilities.
- Promote a proactive safety culture focused on incident prevention and regulatory compliance.
- Develop specific safety objectives and create actions plans to meet those objectives
- Maintain, review and report safety performance, identifying opportunities for improvement along with implementing preventative and corrective actions as required
- Ensure that all incidents and near miss accidents are reported and investigated immediately.
- Communicate, coach and assist the production staff to ensure that all safety expectations are understood and met.
- Review and be familiar with all applicable legislation and applicable standards, to ensure compliance on a regular basis.
- Monitor the workplace and ensure:
o Employees have and use safe tools, equipment and PPE.
o All tools and equipment are properly maintained.
o Ensure that Safety Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are maintained, and communicated to employees.
o All machinery/equipment is in good working condition and maintained regularly per the manufacturers standards
- Inspect, clean and maintain each vehicle used for service or warranty road trips and maintain stock of needed travel equipment, tools and materials.
- Participate in workplace safety and health planning meetings on a scheduled basis.
- Ensure managers and supervisors have the appropriate safety and health; accident prevention; and investigation training
- Ensure equipment/machinery in use is being used properly and correct any incorrect use through proper training
- Investigating close calls and other safety-related incidents that have occurred within the accident area
- Ensure the results of safety and maintenance inspections are documented; ensuring that corrective actions are taken; and providing recommendations for ways to prevent the violation of said safety policy or standards in the future
- Ensure the results of maintenance inspections are documented; making repairs to machinery reported as improperly functioning or not functional; and providing recommendations and/or execution of plan for machinery/equipment upkeep or replacement.
Skills:
facility maintenance, Troubleshooting, safety, Maintenance Management, Mechanical Repair, Safety Training, Osha Compliance, Electrical Mechanical
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
- OSHA knowledge and experience working in industrial safety (OSHA Certification preferred) and the ability to apply basic construction safety standards (core safety)
- Experience with maintenance and repair of large scale machinery and equipment
- Ability to demonstrate personal qualities and people skills such as demonstrating a positive work ethic, integrity, teamwork skills, diversity awareness, conflict-resolution, creativity and resourcefulness.
- Ability to demonstrates professional knowledge and skills such as strong communication skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, and an understanding of workplace organizations and systems
- Mechanical skills with hand and power tools
- Knowledge of hydraulic, air controlled and mechanical systems operations and ability to diagnose and repair or install such systems
- Ability to Interpret diagrams, drawings and schematics for equipment and machinery
- Knowledge in some quality control and ability to practice quality control methods
Experience Level:
Intermediate Level
About Aerotek:
We know that a company's success starts with its employees. We also know that an individual's success starts with the right career opportunity. As a Best of StaffingR Client and Talent leader, Aerotek's people-focused approach yields competitive advantage for our clients and rewarding careers for our contract employees. Since 1983, Aerotek has grown to become a leader in recruiting and staffing services. With more than 250 non-franchised offices, Aerotek's 8,000 internal employees serve more than 300,000 contract employees and 18,000 clients every year. Aerotek is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in talent solutions. Learn more at Aerotek.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
