Address
Form of work
SalaryAt PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.
Principal / Safety Specialist- Ergonomist
The Principal / Senior Safety Specialist/Ergonomist at PGE will lead initiatives and manage all aspects of the organization's soft-tissue injury prevention efforts, including workforce conditioning, ergonomics, and ADA accommodation programs.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Evaluating the workplace and engaging with workers to identify ergonomic interventions and accommodation solutions.
- Analyzing trends in company data and industry practice and preparing presentations and communications.
- Maintaining and improving workforce conditioning and ergonomics programs, keeping them alive and effective.
- Assisting with ADA accommodations, helping to ensure they meet business objectives and comply with all relevant state and/or federal laws and regulations. Integrating industry best practices into existing programs.
- Serving as a subject matter expert to managers and employees on soft-tissue injury prevention, ergonomics, and accommodation.
- In collaboration with other experts, designing and delivering educational programs to managers and employees.
Education/Experience/Skills:
- A bachelor’s degree in health or exercise sciences, or in studies related to health and safety, or equivalent experience.
- At the principal level, eight or more years (at the senior level, five or more years) in professional health and safety, health care provision, or workplace accommodation, with a focus on soft-tissue injury prevention or ergonomics. Experience in electric generation, transmission and distribution operations, or industrial environment. Experience working with a represented workforce (union) preferred. Professional experience as an athletic trainer or in sports medicine is also valued.
- Professional certification is preferred and might include one or more of the following:
- Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE)
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
- Associate Safety Professional (ASP)
- Construction Health & Safety Technician (CHST)
- Occupational Health & Safety Technologist (OHST)
- Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP)
- Certified Occupational Safety Specialist (COSS).
Detailed Job Information
Key Responsibilities
Consultation/Education Proactively provides information to employees, managers, and other departments. Analyzes business needs and leads collaborative efforts with other areas of HR to deliver business safety solutions aligned to industry best practices. In collaboration with other departments, develops and implements safety educational strategy for employee and/or public safety. Leads the design and delivery of safety educational programs and materials.
Program Design and Program Management Proactively identifies safety programmatic needs. Recommends or develops innovative safety programs to meet business objectives and comply with all relevant state and/or federal laws and regulations. Integrates industry best practices into existing programs. Collaborates with other areas to ensure program alignment.
Reporting and Analysis Leads investigations in collaboration with managers and other staff. Tracks, reviews, and analyzes data and prepares presentations and communications. Leads action items resulting from investigatory reports and/or data and trend analysis. Uses predictive analytics to develop new programs or initiatives.
Compliance May provide formal written commentary to regulators on proposed regulations. Oversees regulatory and compliance reporting. Tracks compliance related documentation. In collaboration with Legal Services, responds to questions from regulators and serves as a point person for safety-related regulator inquiries and communications. Ensures all projects and initiatives comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Special Projects Initiates and leads special projects to meet corporate objectives engaging closely with other departments and other areas within HR. Leads meetings and/or specialty teams to implement projects or initiatives. Depending on position may assume leadership roles in emergency response up to and including incident command.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Functional Competencies
- Advanced knowledge of employment laws related to area of employee health and safety.
- Advanced knowledge of PGE’s policies, procedures, collective bargaining agreements and benefit plans
- Advanced knowledge of industry best practices
- Advanced skills in project management
- Advanced skills in writing reports
- Advanced skills in facilitation and presentations
- Advanced skills in systems and programs used in functional area, including data retrieval.
General Competencies
- Advanced customer focus skills.
- Advanced safety leadership skills
- Advanced skills in analytical thinking
- Expert skills in problem-solving
- Advanced oral and written communication skills
- Expert interpersonal skills
- Advanced decision-making skills
- Advanced organization and prioritization skills
- Advanced knowledge of business process interrelationships
- Advanced business acumen.
- Advanced skills in change leadership
- Advanced risk management skills
Physical and Cognitive Demands
Cognitive Level
Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).
Cognitive
- Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines, and time-sensitive tasks.
- Ability to follow accuracy standards.
- Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks.
- Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment.
- Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress.
- Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change.
- Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback.
- Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement.
- Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks.
- Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization Demonstrates sound memory.
- Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks.
Schedule/Attendance
- Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule.
- Ability to work long hours.
- Ability to work a variable schedule.
- Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather.
- Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance.
Physical Capabilities
- This position requires a valid driver’s license and a history of safe driving practices.
- Frequent driving/travel/commute within service territory
- Occasional driving/travel/commute inside/outside the service territory
- Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
- Lifting/pushing/pulling/carrying: Up to 10 lb.
- Unstable surfaces requiring balance:
- Elevated areas (i.e., catwalks, roofs, and high buildings)
- Walking distances and surfaces (long distances and over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces)
- Stairs (over 10 steps)
- Ladders (over 10 rungs)
Environment - Indoor/Outdoor
- Office
- Plant
- Field
Compensation Range:
$87,225.00 - $173,875.00 In addition, this position is eligible for a performance-based incentive bonus. Actual total compensation is commensurate with experience, skills, and education
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click
here
. Join us today and power your potential!
Assisting with storms or other Company emergencies is a part of all positions at Portland General Electric.
PGE is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. PGE will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
PGE does not discriminate on the basis of disability. We recognize individuals have a variety of abilities to offer and we believe there is much to value and celebrate by incorporating different abilities into the work we do. One very important way we live this out is in our application and interview process. We work hard to support individuals who may need an accommodation to fully participate in these processes. If you feel you may need an accommodation, or would like to request one, please notify the Talent Acquisition Specialist (Recruiter) associated with the job posting. You may also make this request by contacting
talentacquisition@pgn.com
or by calling 503-464-7250. The Recruiter will provide information and next steps for the accommodation process. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) team is also available for support. You can contact them at dei@pgn.com
. To be considered for this position, please complete the following employment application by the posting close date. Posting closes at midnight (Pacific Time) on the closing date below. If no date is listed, job is open until filled.
April 8, 2024
