Job Opening: EH&S Technician

Job Role: This position is a balance between spending time in the process areas observing, interacting, and coaching employees and contractors on safe work practices and implementing Environment Health & Safety standards and practices across the site.

Job Location: Houston, 77043

Schedule: 6AM-4PM Monday-Friday (Weekends IF needed)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Implement detailed, task level, day to day EH&S (primarily safety and industrial hygiene) programs, utilizing Corteva EH&S work processes, standards, and procedures.
• Ensures that the safety and industrial hygiene aspects of the site’s Operating Discipline are adequate and applied to achieve safety performance goals.
• May be the first point of contact for safety, industrial hygiene, and environmental issues.
• Coaches individuals on EH&S related tasks and activities compared against the Corteva safety standards, and site safety rules.
• Assists in developing and achieving department and site EH&S goals.
• As required, participates in the safety related reviews of projects, including management of change (MOC) reviews.
• As required, conducts and documents investigations of incidents and ensures follow up actions to prevent re-occurrences are completed.
• Perform audits and self assessments on EH&S standards and programs, including safe work permit reviews, isolation of energy reviews, elevated work reviews, etc.
• Participate in Corteva Corporate EH&S Integrated Audits.
• Create and communicate Safety LERs to the site.
• Attend contractor safety tailgate meetings during projects.
• Complete special projects to help improve plant EH&S performance.
• Conduct site EH&S orientation.
• Provide site specific safety training as directed by EH&S department.

Daily Expectations:

• Attend department morning meeting.
• Conduct safety walks of process areas and active jobs ensuring that safety standards and safe work practices are being followed through observation and interaction.  Assist Operations and Maintenance with correcting any issues that are identified during the safety walk. This activity should be at least 50% of the Safety Tech’s time.
• Review active Core Permits

Monthly Expectations:

• Audit completed Core Permits.
• Verify isolation procedures as current.
• Conduct Self Assessments as required by the Corteva standards.
• Complete assigned training, document reviews, and compliance tasks.
• Participate in department safety meetings.

• Excellent communication (verbal, written, and presentation) skills. 
• Working knowledge of all EH&S/Safety work process and tools, working knowledge of plant operations and processes related to EH&S.
• Must be able to apply Corteva EH&S Standards and Policies.
• Can determine applicability of EH&S tasks and activities as related to standards/requirements.
• Conduct training for the site’s employees and contractors.
• Good computer skills to work with all of the EH&S work process tools as well as standard Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Power Point).