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JOB TITLE: Safety Technician
DIVISION: Corporate - Operations
LOCATION OF WORK: Salt Lake City, UT
TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS: Minimal travel (<10%)
DESCRIPTION:
The Safety Technician assists the USNC ES&H Team in the planning, coordinating, and implementing Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation's Environmental Health and Safety programs, policies, and procedures to maintain the desired healthy safety culture. This position assists in ensuring companywide compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support site management's requirement to safely execute a quality process.
- Assist with hazardous, non-hazardous, and non-regulated waste management, including proper handling, labelling, storage and shipping.
- Assist in administering the company's Health & Safety Program locally; site Accident Prevention Plans; Activity Hazard Analyses; Process Hazard Analyses; and other site-specific plans, procedures, and policies
- Assist with Health & Safety Training, ensuring employees understand hazards associated with site conditions and activities and methods to mitigate those hazards
- Audit and inspect site conditions and activities; initiate corrective and preventive actions and verify the effectiveness of actions taken
- Assist in maintaining the facility wide, web based chemical inventory list and Safety Data Sheets
- Provide guidance of safety improvements
- Assist incident investigations with affected supervisor, assuring actionable causes of incidents are acted on by managers and supervisors and verifying the effectiveness of actions taken
- Assist in conducting weekly safety meetings with site staff.
- Industrial Hygiene sampling and monitoring as needed
- Maintain an inventory of industrial hygiene instrumentation and monitoring equipment
- Work closely with technical and operations staff to provide effective and efficient safety and industrial hygiene support
- Other duties as assigned by the ES&H Manager and/or ES&H Supervisor
- Encourages a healthy safety culture by promoting a safety conscious work environment.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- AS degree in Occupational Health or other applicable discipline or the equivalent of 3 years of experience as a Safety Technician
PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCES:
- Strong interpersonal skills along with excellent written and verbal communications.
- Ability to focus on details as required.
- Proficient in MS Office Suite, Including MS Teams.
- Ability to explain complex issues to others in a manner easily understood by both associates in the industry and those with limited knowledge of industrial safety.
- Excellent problem/conflict resolution skills, with the ability to handle and diffuse difficult situations in a positive manner.
- Self-motivated, ability to initiate with instruction from supervision.
TO APPLY:
Please include the following in your application in PDF format:
EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENTS:
To confirm to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
- Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for an immigration-related employment benefit (e.g., H-1B, TN, green card, etc.)?
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT:
USNC embraces diversity and equal opportunity and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are striving to build the diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce that will make our technology a reality. USNC actively encourages applicants from historically underrepresented backgrounds to apply to this and other roles, acknowledging and committing to address the historical lack of diversity within the nuclear and aerospace industries.
USNC does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
ABOUT ULTRA SAFE NUCLEAR:
Based in Seattle, Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) develops nuclear hardware and services for reliable, clean energy anywhere on Earth and in space. USNC offers full-stack capabilities including specialized reactor design services, advanced materials and fuel development, and reactor manufacturing and system deployment.
USNC has offices in USA, Canada, France, Korea, Poland, South Africa, the UK and more.