What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Safety Professional position at Rhode Island Energy?
Company Summary Statement
As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities — PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy — provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.
Overview
The Sr or Lead Safety Professional’s primary responsibility is to lead, train, and mentor a team of Safety Professionals in the implementation of the Company’s Safety Program in support of both field and office employees. This includes evaluating safe work practices, interpreting, reviewing, and updating safety policy, procedures, and rules, supporting safety committees, facilitating incident investigation, conducting safety field observations, developing and implementing training for both Safety Pros and all our customers, and other operational needs as appropriate. May lead safety projects and initiatives across a single, local operation company or across multiple operation companies, enterprise-wide. Works to improve overall employee safety and health. Assists construction teams with evaluating safety plans and list plans. #RIE
Responsibilities
This position will be filled at the appropriate level based on the selected candidate's education and experience.
Senior Safety Professional: Bachelor's degree plus minimum 5 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience on a year-for-year basis, is required.
Lead Safety Professional: Bachelor's degree plus minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience on a year-for-year basis, is required.
Professional board certification, such as Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or equivalent. Preferred CUSP Certification Supervisory or leadership experience.
As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities — PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy — provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.
Overview
The Sr or Lead Safety Professional’s primary responsibility is to lead, train, and mentor a team of Safety Professionals in the implementation of the Company’s Safety Program in support of both field and office employees. This includes evaluating safe work practices, interpreting, reviewing, and updating safety policy, procedures, and rules, supporting safety committees, facilitating incident investigation, conducting safety field observations, developing and implementing training for both Safety Pros and all our customers, and other operational needs as appropriate. May lead safety projects and initiatives across a single, local operation company or across multiple operation companies, enterprise-wide. Works to improve overall employee safety and health. Assists construction teams with evaluating safety plans and list plans. #RIE
Responsibilities
- Consults with leaders, safety professionals, supervisors, field supervisors, and others to evaluate work practices and recommend safe methods for implementation based on knowledge of Company’s safety policies and procedures in addition to policies and regulations set by state and federal agencies.
- Serves as a subject matter expert to ensure all workers fully understand safety rules, procedures, and regulations.
- Participates and/or facilitates safety-related working groups to ensure all solutions to issues adhere to Electric, and Gas Utilities safety rules, procedures, and policies.
- Liaisons among teams to effectively bridge communications between employees and provides recent safety event updates and reports as needed
- Provides oversight of the effectiveness of communicating recent safety messages to the field and communicating safety concerns back to Operations and management.
- Assists in completion of incident investigations.
- Serves as a key point of contact to the business lines for the Corporate Safety Management System to ensure all incidents are entered in a timely fashion and with accuracy.
- Conducts field observations and provides feedback to crews and business lines.
- Leads safety-related projects and initiatives.
- Identifies injury trends and creates plans to address negative trends.
- Provides oversight of all positions in which driving is an essential function of the job.
- Performs other safety-related duties as assigned.
- May be assigned an emergency/storm role; this is a special assignment that is activated during storms and other emergencies when the Company needs to restore power or respond to other issues affecting customer service.
- This role may necessitate the need to work outside of normal working hours (e.g., evenings, weekends, holidays, etc.).
- The Company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both. The assigned work location may change. In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers.
This position will be filled at the appropriate level based on the selected candidate's education and experience.
Senior Safety Professional: Bachelor's degree plus minimum 5 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience on a year-for-year basis, is required.
Lead Safety Professional: Bachelor's degree plus minimum 7 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience on a year-for-year basis, is required.
- Experience includes a minimum of 3 years in the gas/electric utility industry.
Professional board certification, such as Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or equivalent. Preferred CUSP Certification Supervisory or leadership experience.