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Health Safety Associate

General Description: 

The Health and Safety (H&S) function contributes to the success of EDP Renewables NA (EDPR) by ensuring regulatory compliance and implementing a proactive approach towards worker safety across multiple locations. The H&S Analyst will support the EDPR goal to develop and implement H&S management processes and drive continuous improvement across all business lines.

Main Accountabilities:
  • Be an advocate for H&S, driving a strong and committed safety culture throughout the organization
  • Monitor and audit regulatory compliance and H&S processes at assigned construction and operating sites
  • Assist field teams (operations and construction) to identify key H&S hazards and provide recommendations to eliminate or reduce them
  • Establish measurable H&S benchmarks for assigned construction and operating sites
  • Assist with quantitative and qualitative root cause analyses; demonstrating a strong drive to troubleshoot problems and design solutions
  • Assist in maintaining EDPR H&S procedures
  • Assist with development and delivery of H&S training programs, including those designed to meet OSHA, State, and EDPR requirements
  • Assist in reviewing H&S requirements for contractors and suppliers
  • Review and approve H&S related Corrective and Preventative Action Requests to maintain ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001certifications
  • Perform at a fast pace, with self-motivation and strong initiative
  • Additional duties as required

Direct Reports: 0
Travel: 30%

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • 2 – 5 years of Health & Safety experience in power, construction or a related industry
  • OSHA training (30-hour preferred)

Preferred knowledge:
  • Experience in tower climbing/rescue
  • Experience and/or knowledge of HV electrical
  • Experience with cranes & rigging
  • Experience with heavy equipment and trucking
  • Experience and/or knowledge of excavation and trenching

Behavioral requirements:
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • High attention to detail
  • Demonstrated ability to perform duties independently and remotely
  • Ability to perform multiple duties in a collaborative working environment
  • Ability to be self-motivated
  • Good time-management skills and demonstrated efficiency in providing technical support for multiple concurrent activities
  • Exemplary standards of integrity, honor, safety, ethics, quality, and productivity
  • Ability to travel on short notice
  • Ability to prioritize activities according to changing needs in dynamic environment
  • Ability to work extended hours on short notice
  • Ability and willingness to respond to site emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as needed

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:
  • Sitting/Standing/Flexibility: Ability to frequently perform physical tasks including standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting, squatting, and reaching approximately 75% of the time while on wind farm sites. Ability to stand and sit for 8 or more hours when in an office environment.
  • Walking: Ability to walk .25 to .5 miles per day, including across unpaved and rough surfaces when on wind farm sites
  • Speech/Reading: Ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently and deliver a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form
  • Vision/Hearing: Ability to interpret and follow a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form
  • Hearing: Ability to interpret and follow
  • Climbing: Ability to climb turbine towers
  • Weight, including harness and tools, must be in accordance with the weight limit as specified by the ANSI Fall Protection Standards a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Lifting: Ability to frequently lift items weighing up to 20 pounds and to occasionally lift items weighing between 20 and 40 pounds
  • Tolerance to Extreme Weather Conditions: Ability to work in adverse weather conditions 25% of the time while on wind farm sites.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)