Safety Intern
Department: Safety
Reports to: Safety Manager
Interacts With: Other Employees (in their department and outside of the department)
Job Summary
The Safety Intern supports the organization’s health and safety programs by assisting in the implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of workplace safety initiatives. This role provides hands-on experience in identifying hazards, conducting safety inspections, maintaining compliance documentation, and promoting a culture of safety across all departments.
The Safety Intern collaborates with Safety leaders, Human Resources leaders, and Production teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and company policies while gaining practical knowledge of occupational health and safety practices.
This position also supports and coordinates a wide range of administrative and operational functions to ensure efficient business operations. The Safety Intern plays a key role in supporting workflows, maintaining compliance with company policies, and facilitating communication across departments to promote a safe and effective workplace.
Essential Functions
- Ability to work approximately 40 hours per week.
- Ability to receive feedback and learn from others.
- Knows how to complete required paperwork for Safety and administration.
- Proactive and able to help solve problems.
- Accomplishes daily assigned tasks and meets productivity requirements.
- Ensures paperwork is timely, accurate, and complete.
- Able to prevent and minimize disruptions to the workflow.
- Deals effectively with sudden changes in daily priorities.
- Communicates problems and issues in a timely manner with appropriate management.
- Attends meetings and trainings as required.
- Ability to learn all facets of the position.
- Reliable, consistent work attendance is mandatory.
- Knows and follows Safety standards and policies.
- Responsible for good housekeeping.
- Ability to help out in other areas/departments when needed.
- Works with the Safety department to complete tasks.
- Distributes and collects toolbox talks monthly.
- Assists with Safety audits weekly.
- Assists with rigging repair/order.
- Assists with documentation for Safety Meetings.
- Assists with administrative tasks for injuries/incidents.
- Assists with incident investigations.
- Assists with compliance inspections.
- Performs shop walk-throughs and Safety monitoring.
- Performs recordkeeping functions for Safety documentation.
- Assists in distributing and receiving Safety documentation.
- Assists with Safety inspections by completing and monitoring required items.
- Collects documentation and files for the company.
Position QualificationsCompetency Statements
- Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Accurate – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Communication, Oral – Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
- Decision Making – Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
- Detail Oriented – Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
- Energetic – Ability to work at a sustained pace and produce quality work.
- Enthusiastic – Ability to bring energy to the performance of a task.
- Friendly – Ability to exhibit a cheerful demeanor toward others.
- Goal Oriented – Ability to focus on a goal and obtain a predetermined result.
- Honesty / Integrity – Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
- Initiative – Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
- Judgment – Ability to formulate a sound decision using the available information.
- Motivation – Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
- Reliability – The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
- Responsible – Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one’s conduct.
- Self-Motivated – Ability to be internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his/her own drive or initiative.
- Working Under Pressure – Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.
Experience
- One to two years of related experience.
Pay: $19.00 - $21.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: In person
