Safety Technician

Interface is a global flooring solutions company and sustainability leader, offering an integrated portfolio of carpet tile and resilient flooring products that includes Interface carpet tile and LVT, nora rubber flooring, and FLOR premium area rugs for commercial and residential spaces. Made with purpose and without compromise, Interface flooring brings more sophisticated design, more performance, more innovation, and more climate progress to interior spaces. A decades-long pioneer in sustainability, Interface remains "all in" on becoming a restorative business. Today, the company is focusing on carbon reductions, not offsets, as it works toward achieving its verified science-based targets by 2030 and its goal to become a carbon negative enterprise by 2040.

Position summary:
The Safety Coordinator/Instructor will provide consistent safety assistance through a variety of functions such as training development and delivery, providing safe instruction on operations, performing guided audits and inspections, maintaining records, and addressing associate concerns regarding safety and health.

Educational requirements:

• High school diploma or GED
• Completion of college course work a plus
• Completion of a Train-the-Trainer type program or willingness to successfully complete
• Completion of an OSHA course or willingness to successful complete

Skills and experience:

• Two to three years' experience in manufacturing environment.
• Good communication skills, written and verbal
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred.
• Demonstrated skills in classroom type instruction for delivery of information to any size group as well as one-on-one type training.
• Ability to provide a strong, safe work ethic.
• Has working knowledge of manufacturing type jobs.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software.
• Excellent development and lecture presentation skills.
• Must be self-motivated to generate opportunities for the team to reduce exposure to risk and increase the same spirit in co-workers in all departments.
• Must be able to work with supervision in other departments to assist in the coordination of efforts to make sure associates are trained effectively and efficiently.
• Have working knowledge of and ability to learn OSHA regulations in order to train associates and conduct audits.
• Demonstrate effective organizational skills.
• Able to become certified in safety & health certifications.

Essential duties:

• Support Interface departments in safety functions as directed by Safety Leadership,
• Act as a department liaison with operators and line supervisors,
• Conduct audits of activities and documents as directed by Safety Leadership,
• Effectively deliver training of health and safety topics,
• Utilize the current ISO training database to track regulatory training required by job description, effectively enter information into database, and help supervision maintain training of all employees.
• Audit job performance versus the standard safe work practices and report findings to Safety Leadership.
• Assist in development of additional H&S compliance procedures & documents as needed.
• Provide and / or conduct safety training material.
• Assist with incident response, investigation and follow-up.
• Monitor the progress of Corrective/ Preventative actions from Health & Safety findings and report findings to Safety Leadership.
• Assist with administrative type duties in support of the Safety Connections/ Safety Corrections/Critical Risk Surveys program.
• Assist with the development of improved methods of compliance.
• Comply with and coach others on all expected safe behaviors and practices.
• Comply with Interface policies & procedures.
• Understand and support Interface commitment to sustainability.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Safety Leadership.