Job Description
What We Do
CarParts.com is the go-to eCommerce platform for auto care and maintenance. We offer drivers quality parts at competitive prices and allow customers to schedule an appointment with a trusted mechanic directly from our website. We use world-class design principles and the latest technologies to deliver a fast, easy-to-use, and mobile-intuitive website. And with our company-owned national distribution network, we bring the best brands and manufacturers directly to consumers, cutting out the costs associated with brick-and-mortar retailers. Our more than 1,700 team members worldwide are dedicated to Empowering Drivers Along Their Journey.
Our Culture
At CarParts.com, we’re DRIVEN by our core values: Safety First, Customer Focused, and a Commitment to Excellence. These values guide us in everything we do and push us further in our growth both as a company and as people. They cultivate an environment where employees are inspired and empowered as we build and thrive together. All the hard work of our entire team has resulted in back-to-back record-breaking quarters since Q1 of 2020, as well as our inclusion in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s top 100 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles list for four years in a row (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). Join us
Job Summary
The DC Safety Coordinator position is responsible for driving and ensuring safety awareness of the distribution center on all shifts. In this strategic safety support role, you will closely support distribution center leadership and the company Safety Director in developing and implementing environmental, health, and safety (EHS) policies, procedures, training, inspections, and audits. The Safety Coordinator will ensure DC safety and security measures are followed, as well as monitor, support, and issue associate and contractor access badges. Assist with environmental, health and safety (EHS) inspections of the distribution center. Drive consistency with safety incident investigations, fact finding, data collection and root cause analysis, and corrective actions. You will drive pro-active safety culture engagement through risk mitigation and addressing unsafe behaviors and hazards in the workplace.
Key Responsibilities
- Promote safety awareness and cultivate distribution center safety culture. Works cooperatively and harmoniously with distribution center management, supervisors, leads co-workers, and support departments.
- Understand and ensure regulatory compliance with all state and federal regulatory laws and regulations.
- Maintain confidentiality of all aspects of job responsibilities.
- Completes assigned safety projects and tasks independently and work well within a team environment.
- Conduct safety training (new hire, refresher, job specific, powered industrial truck) sessions for associates and contractors.
- Inspects working conditions to ensure all areas and activities are compliant with health and safety guidelines.
- Prepares ad hoc safety reports detailing inspection process and other activities.
- Coordinates accident investigations, safety review meetings and safety committee meetings as needed.
- Suggests revisions to operational process methods and employee activity that does not meet health and safety expectations.
- Addresses any workplace related health and safety issues and accidents.
- Collaborate closely with distribution center leadership to monitor compliance and identify health and safety issues.
- Daily monitoring reports and impacts in i-warehouse software. (site specific)
- Ensure all powered industrial truck (PIT) safety training records are current and perform weekly checks for accuracy.
- Keep work areas safe, organized, and clean according to general warehousing/office practices and OSHA requirements daily.
- Conduct health and safety audits on operational compliance with safety policies and procedures.
- Participate in post-injury and incident investigations and evaluations.