Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place. Job Title: Incident Investigator Location: Port Arthur, TX, 77641Duration: 12 Months Job Type: Contract Work Type: Onsite Job Description: Job Summary:
- Implements the safety management program by investigating and reporting the causes and contributing factors of environmental, safety, and health events.
- Monitors worker performance in the field to identify performance deficiencies and coach workers to restore compliance with the client safety and performance standards. Identifies, measures and reports on trends impacting site safety performance.
- Works directly with project-level functional leads (e.g., engineering, construction, subcontracts, procurement, project controls, document controls) to assist them in facilitating, investigating, and analysing incidents.
Major Responsibilities:
- Provides assistance in a wide variety of Environmental, Safety, and Health (ES&H) disciplines to facilitate implementation of client's ES&H program and ES&H Management System to include aiding compliance with client's ES&H standards, applicable regulatory requirements, and contractual commitments
- Investigates, determine the underlying causes, contributing factors and corrective actions for complex environmental, safety and health events as a subject matter expert in a highly matrixed organization.
- Assists with incident notifications, leads investigations, and prepares incident investigation reports
- Coach and assist field level ES&H representatives in investigating and reporting of low-level events.
- Assists in the identification and correction of performance trends impacting safety performance using principles of statistical analysis and statistical process control as part of continuous improvement.
- Leads teams in conducting risk assessment, studies, mitigation planning, and monitoring in response to ES&H issues
- Maintains ES&H databases, inclusive of incident events, audit/assessment findings, and corrective actions
- Prepares communications, writes reports, and prepares documents for program execution and records retention
- Research complex issues and provides regulatory interpretation and technical advice
- Recommends and implements improvements in processes, procedures, and work activities to minimize hazard potential
- Assists in the development, implementation, and maintenance of programs, systems, and procedures necessary for the safety and health of employees and protection of the environment and communities
- Identifies and supports any unique software systems and electronic innovation used by ES&H personnel
- Participates in and may lead employee training, emergency preparedness, and quality assurance programs
- Provides support to ES&H field and office personnel, inclusive of all ES&H disciplines
Education and Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) in ES&H, Management or related science/engineering discipline and 5-8 years of relevant experience or 9-12 years of relevant work experience.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Formal training and certification in Root Cause Analysis is required. Certification in Tap Root, Apollo, Blue Dragon, or Six Sigma is highly preferred.
- 5 years practical experience as a Root Cause Analyst in a large construction, operating, or governmental organization is required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to explain, explore and discuss safety issues with range of stakeholders
- Working knowledge of best professional ES&H practices in conducting accident investigations, compliance audits and project health surveys.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and autonomously as a subject matter expert in the field of Root Cause Analysis.
- Proven ability to operate effectively and work collaboratively in a complex integrated organization.
- Knowledge of safety procedures, engineering and construction systems, principles, and methodologies
- Prior training and experience in formal root cause analysis methodologies
- Prior experience as a root cause analyst in a large construction or operating company
- Prior experience working within a performance improvement or continuous improvement department
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.