Safety Specialist

The role

The Safety Specialist administers permit, training, inspection, and recordkeeping systems. This person audits compliance in the field and serves as a point of contact for host site safety representatives, general contractors, and regulatory inspectors.

What you will do

• Maintain the Field Service Safety Program, Operations Procedure and SSSP Template.
• Track EPA and OSHA developments affecting field service scope.
• Maintain equipment-specific Energy Control Procedures and safety forms.
• Review energized electrical work permits and confined space entry permits.
• Confirm staffing requirements for energized testing and attendants.
• Review Pre-Task Plans for energized, confined space, elevated and refrigerant work.
• Conduct documented inspections of work areas and equipment.
• Audit lockout/tagout, refrigerant work, and PPE selection in the field.
• Deliver or coordinate new hire and refrigerant safety orientations.
• Maintain injury and illness recordkeeping and lead root-cause analysis.

Required qualifications

• Five or more years of hands-on environmental, health and safety experience in mechanical construction, HVAC service, industrial refrigeration, electrical contracting or mission-critical facilities.
• Equivalent experience as a working technician or foreman with formal safety responsibility will be considered.
• OSHA 30-Hour Construction.
• OSHA 30-Hour General Industry required within 12 months of hire.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of lockout/tagout, NFPA 70E, confined space entry, and fall protection and rescue planning.
• Incident investigation, root-cause analysis and OSHA recordkeeping experience.
• Current CPR, AED and First Aid certification, or the ability to obtain within 60 days of hire.
• EPA Section 608 Type II certification within 12 months of hire and Universal certification within 24 months.
• Valid driver's license with an acceptable motor vehicle record.
• Ability to obtain construction site and data center access credentials.
• Ability to wear all required PPE, climb ladders and work from elevated platforms, enter confined spaces, and respond outside normal business hours.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, environmental science or engineering.
• CSP, ASP, GSP, CHST or OHST certification, or active candidacy.
• Direct experience in data center commissioning or critical facilities service.
• Experience with A2L refrigerants, low-pressure centrifugal chillers, CO2 transcritical systems, or UPS battery systems and DC arc flash assessment.
• Environmental compliance experience, including regulated waste streams and refrigerant management.
• Experience building a safety function from an existing written program.

About the company

ThermalWorks transforms data center cooling with ultra-efficient, modular systems. Endeavour builds technology infrastructure for the benefit of all.