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Job Summary:

Provides support on health and safety to production and site personnel under the guidance of the site HSE leader. Assists in the analysis, review and sustainability of Health & Safety Management Systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Plan Maintains skills and knowledge required to perform job duties.
• Determine gaps within corporate health and safety initiatives and local health and safety policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Build an understanding of HSE culture.
• Maintain confidentiality and appropriate recordkeeping standards in line with corporate data protection and retention requirements.
• Do Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards.
• Report any work-related injury, illness, incident or hazard through internal reporting processes.
• Work as a health and safety resource and liaison between shop floor and management.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of hazard identification, incident investigation and risk assessments processes.
• Support closure of corrective and preventive actions.
• Communicate effectively to create safety awareness.
• Perform basic administrative tasks as required.
• Participate in health and safety inspection and audit programs.
• Actively participate and lead incident investigation and reporting.
• Gather data for the analysis of safety related trends.
• Assist in maintenance of local health and safety policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Support health, safety and wellness initiatives.
• Support implementation and maintenance of Emergency Response processes.
• Assist in local employee engagement initiatives to drive an interdependent culture.
• Follows all applicable standard work, process documentation and quality procedures.
• Raises issues to minimize cost and quality exposures.
• Performs quality checks.
• Identifies and controls non-conforming material.
• Communicates effectively with the assigned team and with all support teams.
• Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements.
• Participates actively in ways to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.

Competencies:

• Action oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Builds networks - Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Decision quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Self-development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Health and Safety Fundamentals - Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting and participating in actions to improve health and safety in order to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
• Health, Safety and Environment Management Systems - Interprets and applies international standards through practical application within the operating environment to achieve and maintain an effective management system and external certification.
• Risk Assessment - Evaluates hazards within the work environment by applying hazard identification and risk assessment techniques to analyze and prioritize risk, enabling a selection of control measures that reduce risk as low as reasonably practicable.
• Manufacturing Knowledge - Demonstrates the knowledge of manufacturing by correctly implementing changes in current processes, equipment, and applications to meet the function's needs and contribute towards continuous improvement.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.

College, University or equivalent degree in Industrial Safety preferred.

Experience:

Requires some work experience or intermediate level knowledge obtained through education, training or on-the-job experience.

This position is for second shift. Initial training may require day shift work.

Core responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Work with cross functional teams to complete COMET HSE Incident Investigations
• Work with cross functional teams to address safety incident corrective actions
• Conduct risk assessments in both Humantech (ergonomics) and HEART
• Conduct training, inspections, and support HSE risk improvements.
• Participate as a site Emergency Response Team Member

Requirements

• Shop floor manufacturing experience.

Nice to have, not required:

• Experience as an ERT and/or HSE experience

Job Health and Safety

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category On-site with Flexibility

Job Type Shop

ReqID 2430284

Relocation Package Yes

100% On-Site Yes

Due to the operational nature and specific job duties of this role, work is required to be completed 100% in person/On-site.

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