Senior Safety Specialist

Job Summary

Provides subject matter expertise with a technical focus on event learning, incident management, investigations, and near-miss processes. Facilitates learning teams and supports Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) approach to strengthen operational learning and Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention. Performs in-depth event analysis, identifies trends and control gaps, develops sustainable corrective actions, and partners with leaders and stakeholders to implement improvements

Essential Functions

• • Facilitate Learning Teams with a focus on human and organizational performance principles to support learning. Leads serious injury (SIF) investigations that may include a formal causal analysis. Conducts event reports with executive leadership.
  • Works in close collaboration with corporate, operations and safety leadership to develop and implement sustainable corrective actions and process improvements to prevent incidents.
  • Facilitates regular meetings to verify timely completion of corrective actions from event learnings and maintains corrective action log.
  • Tracks and analyzes high-energy events to identify trends, direct or critical controls, and
  • improvement opportunities.
  • Hosts weekly departmental meetings to review and classify incidents according to the Safety Classification and Learning (SCL) model. Maintains data accuracy in the incident management database.
  • Manage projects associated with program implementation and maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Serves as a serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention advocate presenting or training as requested, covering topics including Human and Organizational Performance fundamentals (HOP), energy wheel, high-energy hazard identification, critical controls, and operational learning.
  • Prepares and communicates findings from high value learning events across the business.

Essential Functions Continued

• • Develops safety related communications for inclusion into daily communications, meetings and
  • bulletins.
  • Supports the high-energy controls assessment process.
  • Collaborates and builds partnerships with stakeholders, managers, supervisors, and crew members
  • to promote integration and adoption of SIF prevention, HOP and event learning.
  • Trains and supports additional Learning Team Facilitators.

Education Description

Requires a bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, Psychology, Engineering, Business, or related technical field.

Experience

• • Requires at least five (5) years of relevant work experience which may include safety, human and organizational performance, incident investigation/management or continuous improvement.
  • Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and/or Associate Safety Professional (ASP) certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

• • Able to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, reach, climb stairs and ladders, and poles.
  • Able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a minimal amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
  • Able to demonstrate and apply manual dexterity to operate a personal computer and common office equipment.
  • Able to sit, stand or walk for long periods of time.
  • Able to operate a motor vehicle and drive a motor vehicle daily or for extended time periods, in a safe manner, and enter/exit vehicle unassisted.

Working Conditions

• • Required to participate in CenterPoint Energy’s All Hazard Emergency Operation Plan (AHOP).
  • Able to work indoors in an office environment and outdoors with occasional exposure to all weather conditions, equipment, and noise when at field installation sites.
  • This position will require approximately 10-15% travel across the six-state footprint.