Job Title: Safety Engineer

Location: Stanford, CA 94305

Duration: 9 Months

Pay rate: $55.00/hr. on W2

Shift timing/schedule: Onsite, 8am to 5pm

Summary

The Safety Engineer works closely with Health and Safety staff and the Maintenance and Operations (M&O) trades to create safety protocols. Procedures and special assignments.

Core duties:

• Work closely with M&O management staff to recognize, identify, and evaluate hazardous conditions, behaviors, and work practices.
• Recommend appropriate containment and corrective actions for hazard control design, methods, procedures, and processes for all machines used in M&O.
• Develop draft safety procedures including Lock Out/Tag Out, Confined Space, Machine Guarding, Hazardous Waste Management, Mechanical Room Management, etc.
• Evaluate all system safety requirements and develop quality control system for M&O management
• Conduct health and safety surveys, quantitative and qualitative exposure/risk assessments, and data analyses; ability to provide recommendations for exposure/risk control
• Requires high level of professionalism and problem-solving.
• Demonstrate emotional intelligence and professionalism, especially in time-sensitive or high-pressure situations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or Safety Engineering required,
• Experience in safety engineering, process safety, systems safety, or related areas preferred,
• Occasionally lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds. Occasionally sitting, performing desk-based computer tasks.
• Occasionally stand/walk, twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, use a telephone, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 11-50 pounds.
• Rarely kneel, crawl, climb ladders, reach/work above shoulder, twist/bend/stoop/squat, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, grasp forcefully, write by hand, sort and file paperwork or parts, operate foot and/or hand controls, carry, push, and pull objects that weigh 40 pounds or more.

Working conditions:

• Must wear personal protective equipment as defined/required by job assignments.
• May require occasional work on weekends and evenings
• May involve long hours of standing and sustained communications/dialogue.
• May work in mechanical equipment rooms, kitchens, waste management areas, construction sites, indoor and outdoor storage areas,
• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with others,
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.