SAFETY TECHNICIAN - Austin Industrial - Plaquemine, LA

About Austin Industrial Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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. To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial . 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. Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position. 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 Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. See the “Know Your Rights” poster available in English and Spanish . See the “Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision” poster available in English and Spanish . No Third-Party Inquiries Please This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). Accessibility Note If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.