Senior Safety Engineer, Ford Energy

Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS).

The Senior Engineer, Occupational Safety, working without supervision, is the site health and safety subject matter expert responsible for developing innovative solutions to occupational safety and security concerns.

Responsibilities

• Guides other team members for the implementation of plant-wide safety processes including safety operating system, emergency response planning, and safety training orientations, by providing expertise on the application of occupational safety programs.
• Participates in the implementation of regular inspections and audits to identify and assess workplace hazards, unsafe conditions, risks, and related issues.
• Supports and participates in launch activities of new projects, safety/ergonomic risks for new equipment/processes, off-standard understanding, approvals, etc.
• Consults with multiple cross-functional leaders for accident investigations and near misses, applies risk management expertise to properly identify underlying causes and guides the development and implementation of corrective actions.
• Conducts needs assessment and identifies requirements for new training programs to prevent employee injuries and illnesses and the elimination of hazards in the work environment.
• Leads the delivery of Occupational Safety and Security projects partnering with external auditors/consultants and with other functional leaders.
• Supports and leads continuous improvement initiatives in partnership with senior leaders across Health and Safety initiatives and provides recommend updates to existing Occupational Safety function-specific policies, guidelines, programs, and procedures.
• Demonstrates expertise in technical occupational safety subjects such as risk assessment and hazard identification, incident investigation, injury statistics reporting, safety program development, industrial hygiene and exposure monitoring, safety equipment and systems, etc.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Safety/Health Sciences, or any other related discipline.
• Experience: Minimum 4 years of occupational safety work experience with a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, or a related field.
• Work Requirements: Involves frequent lifting of more than 10 to 25 pounds. Work performed requires a good deal of walking or standing and may include some sedentary work and working conditions that include moderate noise levels.
• Must be available to work various shifts as needed.
• Domestic and international travel may be required.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.