Safety Superintendent

Environmental, Health & Safety

The Safety Superintendent is responsible for advancing a culture of safety excellence where everyone is engaged, empowered and innovative in cultivating a workplace that promotes the safety and health of our employees, contractors, and visitors. Major responsibilities include leading and supervising the occupational safety, emergency response, and facility security team including setting and measuring objectives for the team, managing, and improving systems, developing key staff, and ensuring effective communications.

• Develop and implement a strategic vision for safety performance and safety culture excellence. Analyze safety data, assumptions, resources, constraints, and the facility culture to develop a long-range course of actions to achieve that vision. Ensure safety vision aligns with overall EHS and Facility strategy.
• Ensure alignment and coordination of shared safety and health work processes with the business strategy. Ensure activities are rooted in company values.
• Measure safety and health performance by identifying key measures of progress, understanding limits and boundaries of data, and creating mileposts and symbols to rally support and encourage improvement.
• Monitor current and future safety and health regulatory requirements as well as Company Standards to ensure the facility is able to comply.
• Implement and improve processes that effectively and efficiently assess safety risk management and compliance assurance practices and systems.
• Establish systems and leverage technology to identify, assess, manage, and mitigate occupational safety and health risks and ensure regulatory compliance with applicable Federal, State, local regulations, and company policies.
• Identifies and implements best practices and leads continuous improvement initiatives to reduce work process risks, raise safety awareness, and improve safe work practices.
• Determine the skills, knowledge, and behaviors needed for safety success. Facilitate internal knowledge and skill sharing and utilize technology to ensure efficient and effective knowledge development. Ensure safety and health training programs are developed and conducted to ensure compliance with company, state and federal guidelines.
• Develops and implements safety policies, programs and processes that meet or exceed regulatory and company expectations. Works with all departments to review barriers to meeting expectations.
• Establish clear expectations for safety and health staff and hold staff accountable for those expectations. Foster continuous development of leadership and technical skills and create a learning environment that encourages efficient and effective processes.
• Foster employee engagement through communications of the shared safety culture and vision. Promote a culture of open communication and continuous learning through sharing of all safety and health incidents/near misses and developing a mature Human Performance Risk (behavioral safety) program by sharing both positive and negative messages but including possibilities of improvement.
• Develop effective communication channels, techniques, and tools that will reach the target audience including employees, contractors, and visitors with the key safety and health messages. Can influence others on new ideas and the benefits of change.
• Act as the facility’s representative on the Corporate Safety Council including obtaining site leadership input/consensus on issues prior to meetings and influencing Company efforts.
• Participate in government, industry, and community committees to provide an external forum of communication for representing the interests of the facility on safety and health matters.
• Maintains required stock of safety equipment, personnel training, injury and incident records, and workers’ compensation case management.
• Develops reports, action plans, and ensures timely follow-up for corrective actions identified through internal and external audits, incident investigations, industry best practice initiatives, etc.
• Other duties associated with safety management as needed.

This position has a significant impact upon the personal safety and health performance and culture of the facility. Ensuring the facility is not only operating within all applicable laws and regulations but is driving continuous improvement is critical to the successful operation. Can manage and influence both up and down in the organization.

Understands and complies with established departmental processes and procedures designed to support internal controls efforts. Identifies and brings to the attention of department management internal controls deficiencies. Understands and complies with Environmental, Health, and Safety department policies and processes.

Strong verbal and written communication skills demonstrated leadership capabilities including employee development and engagement skills, strong change management skills, strong analytical and decision-making abilities, and ability to deal effectively and diplomatically with regulatory authorities.

Time management: proven ability to achieve short term and long term results

• A Bachelor’s degree in a safety, industrial hygiene, occupational health, or related field
• A minimum of 5 years of directly related experience in the safety field, preferably in the chemical industry, with demonstrated knowledge of safety and health regulations.
• A recognized occupational safety or health certification that requires a formal rigorous screening process, a minimum of formal education and experience, a written examination and continuous maintenance education requirements - CSP, CRSP, CIH, ROH, CMIOSH or equivalent.
• Position requires effective organizational skills, time management skills, people management, and communication skills
• Microsoft 365 proficiency: Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc.

• CF Industries is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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