Job Location : Oglethorpe,GA, USA
Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services 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. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.
This is a fulltime maintenance job working 40 hours a week (4/10's). No per diem and no relocation assistance.
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.
* 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.
* May fill in for site HSE manager during absences.
* Must be able to perform work wearing personnel protective equipment. Including but not limited to the following: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses.
* While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; work at heights; balance for extended periods of time.
* Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education - OSHA 30
Experience - 2 years of maintenance and construction experience.
Must pass drug screen, as a condition of employment.
This is a fulltime maintenance job working 40 hours a week (4/10's). No per diem and no relocation assistance.
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.
We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about Austin, please go to
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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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 (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
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Become an Owner
Unlike other companies that may be privately or publicly held, Austin is 100% owned by our employees. It's a source of pride for everyone one of our 5,700+ employee-owners that we have vested interest in the day-to-day success of our company. We share Austin's growth and profitability and are accountable to ourselves for doing everything it takes to serve our customers with excellence and to make Austin the best it can be. After all, We Own It. Learn more at www.austin-ind.com.