Transportation Health & Safety Specialist

Job Description
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
We are currently seeking a Transportation Health & Safety Specialist in Arcadis U.S. who will continue to support our vision to Zero incidents. This position requires promoting teamwork, embracing challenges, prioritizing objectives, and developing proactive solutions. This position will also be responsible for composing technical procedures by collaborating with leadership to gain a thorough understanding of each Business Areas (BAs) operation. This position can be based anywhere in the U.S. Some travel will be required to complete a variety of H&S related assignments.
This role will sit in the Enabling Functions Team. Our Enabling Functions span H&S, HR, Legal, IT and beyond. In every role you'll play a major part in driving the growth of our business by bringing your expertise, strategic vision, commercial focus and operational excellence.
Role accountabilities:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Full-time assignment involving periods of (~25%) travel to complete a variety of health and safety-related assignments.
• Further develop understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of the client's business and the industry sector, to facilitate personal networking and develop personal credibility in industry.
• Support programs related to Department of Transportation regulatory compliance including providing administrative and technical support related to hazardous material shipping, commercial motor vehicles, railroad safety, traffic control safety and aviation safety.
• Support the Arcadis US Health & Program by helping with day-to-day management of the safety program including but not limited to motor vehicle safety, injury reporting and management, safety management system support, safety vendor management, and other H&S program related task
• Provide technical and regulatory direction, guidance, and implementation of health and safety standards.
• Ensure training records, health/safety Standards or handbooks, incident/accident reports, or other documentation are appropriately maintained.
• Provide guidance in personal protective equipment selection.
• Complete ergonomic evaluations and provide guidance to staff regarding their workstation set up.
• Identify appropriate training mechanisms and develop and deliver training programs (with oversight and support provided, as necessary) educating staff on health and safety.
• Develop presentation and training materials.
• Lead health and safety trainings.
• Perform worker and task observations to identify questionable behaviors. Work with teams to develop appropriate solutions to mitigate site hazards.
• Help gather and analyze leading and lagging health and safety statistics from all offices and project sites across North America.
• Participate in and/or lead incident investigations.
• Complete periodic office audits virtually and in person.

Desired skills for the position include:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Knowledge of Federal, State, and local environmental regulations including but not limited to air, hazardous and solid waste, water, chemical and petroleum bulk storage, environmental assessments, RCRA, SARA, and CERCLA
• Hazardous material shipping experience in the ground and air modes
• Commercial motor vehicle experience
• Familiarity with construction site hazards and hazard mitigations
• Knowledge of OSHA Federal health and safety regulations
• Strong technical writing and written communication skills
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and professionalism
• Developing specialty in at least one area of HS (e.g., LOTO, Confined Space, Electrical Safety, Fire Protection, Respiratory Protection, Fall Protection, Respiratory Protection, asbestos, lead, indoor air quality, hazardous materials)
• Act as safety professional and safety leader

Qualifications & Experience:
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Safety & Health, or Engineering (Environmental, Civil, or related), Environmental Science, or a related discipline preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant experience preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 hr. OSHA Construction or 30 hr. OSHA Construction
• 40-Hour Hazwoper Trained
• Experience in Oil and Gas Health and Safety
• Knowledge of Management Systems (ISO 14001, 50001, 18001)
• Experience Health and Safety Auditing
• Registrations/Certifications : ASP, CIH, CSP, CDGP, etc.

Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start date, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $70,800 - $101,775.00.
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