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$60,000 - $70,000 per year | Portage, MI | On-site | Permanent

We are a well-established, privately held industrial mechanical, fabrication, and construction organization with nearly 80 years of history. Our teams support complex customer environments across manufacturing, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemical, energy, and other industrial markets. Safety is an integral part of how we operate. Because our employees work across multiple customer facilities and project sites, our safety professionals gain exposure that is difficult to replicate in a single-facility environment. We are adding a Safety Coordinator to our Southwest Michigan team and are particularly interested in an early-career professional who wants hands-on experience, strong mentorship, and the opportunity to grow into meaningful ownership of the safety function.

Fantastic early-career opportunity: Gain hands-on safety experience across multiple industrial and construction environments.

Real mentorship: Receive a full week of dedicated onboarding with the Safety Director and two experienced Safety Coordinators.

Not sink-or-swim: Ongoing support from Safety Coordinators, Group Managers, Foremen, and leadership as you develop.

Broad safety exposure: Work with OSHA compliance, JSAs, hazard plans, inspections, training, investigations, corrective actions, and site-specific safety programs.

Career runway: Develop from a supported Safety Coordinator into someone trusted to independently own project and site safety responsibilities.

Strong total compensation: $60,000-70,000 base plus $450/month auto allowance, fuel card for applicable business travel, company phone, and strong benefits.

Stable organization: Join an established company with decades of history and continued growth.

Great culture: Collaborative, easygoing, field-oriented team that values relationships and practical problem-solving.

The Safety Coordinator will partner with operations, field supervision, employees, and leadership to develop, implement, and maintain workplace safety programs across office, shop, customer, and project environments.

This role is an excellent fit for a recent safety graduate, someone completing a safety-related degree with meaningful internship/co-op experience, or an early-career safety professional ready to broaden their experience.

• Develop and update site- and project-specific safety programs.
• Develop and update Job Safety Analyses and task-specific hazard plans.
• Conduct and document job-site and shop safety inspections.
• Identify hazards and develop corrective actions.
• Follow through to ensure deficiencies are resolved.
• Develop and deliver safety training and maintain compliance records.
• Conduct project and job-site orientations.
• Provide regulatory guidance to field supervision and employees.
• Investigate incidents and accidents and complete required reporting.
• Track and report safety and health metrics.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable OSHA and local, state, and federal requirements.
• Communicate customer- and project-specific safety expectations to field teams.
• Support PPE and safety-supply initiatives.
• Maintain safety documentation and SDS information.
• Support confined-space and industrial-hygiene activities as needed.

• Safety-related degree, coursework, internship/co-op experience, or 1-5 years of relevant safety experience.
• Foundational understanding of OSHA and occupational safety principles.
• Exposure to construction, manufacturing, industrial, EHS, occupational safety, or field safety environments preferred.
• Comfortable spending meaningful time at customer/job sites.
• Confident enough to speak up when something is unsafe.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build credibility with experienced field employees.
• Self-starter who asks questions, seeks answers, and becomes increasingly independent.
• Strong organization, communication, and follow-through.
• GSP, CHST, BCSP certification or progress toward certification is a plus.

• $60,000-70,000 base salary
• Full-time, 40 hours/week
• Typical schedule: 7:00 AM-4:00 PM
• Portage/Kalamazoo, MI area
• Combination of office and field/job-site responsibilities
• $450 monthly auto allowance
• Fuel card for applicable work travel
• Company phone
• Strong benefits package

Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.