Health & Safety Specialist

OXEA Corporation Company Overview | World leader in Oxo Chemicals

Oxo products are the core competency of OXEA Corporation. We are producing more than 70 oxo intermediates and oxo derivatives for customers in a wide range of industries with various end market applications. Our chemicals are important ingredients in products that are used in daily life around the world. "We" refers to more than 1,200 OXEA employees worldwide. At our plants in Germany, the USA, and China, we produce intermediates and derivatives.

Position Overview

The Health & Safety Specialist provides technical and field-based support for the site's occupational health and safety programs within a chemical manufacturing environment. This position partnerswith Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Security, contractors, and other site functions to identify and mitigate workplace hazards, strengthen safe work practices, support regulatory compliance, and promote safe and reliable manufacturing operations.

The Health & Safety Specialist supports key programs and activities including field safety, contractor safety, incident investigations, regulatory compliance, safety training, audits and inspections, emergency preparedness, and corrective action management. This role serves as a visible Health & Safety resource in the field and contributes to Process Safety Management (PSM), safety performance improvement, and other initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, regulatory compliance, and the site's overall safety culture.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical and field-based Health & Safety support to Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Security, contractors, and other site functions to identify hazards, evaluate risk, and support the safe execution of work.

• Conduct routine field observations, workplace inspections, safety assessments, and hazard evaluations; communicate findings and partner with responsible departments to develop and implement appropriate corrective actions.

• Administer and support assigned occupational safety programs and safe work practices, including Job Safety Analyses (JSAs), personal protective equipment (PPE), hazard communication, lockout/tagout, confined space entry, hot work, and other applicable site safety programs.

• Provide Health & Safety guidance and field support during routine operations, maintenance activities, construction, outages, turnarounds, and other non-routine or higher-risk work activities.

• Support the site's contractor safety program, including contractor orientation, field oversight, safety performance, and coordination with contractor and site representatives to address identified safety concerns.

• Participate and lead in incident and near-miss investigations, including fact gathering, root cause analysis, documentation of findings, identification of corrective actions, and communication of lessons learned.