Title:  Senior Health and Safety Policy Specialist

What You Will Do

As a Sr Health & Safety Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for maintaining up-to-date, effective, and accessible policy documentation that complies with health and safety regulations, while also ensuring thorough communication of policies to all stakeholders. 

• Oversee policy creation, review, approval, and distribution.
• Lead policy review meetings and track follow-up actions.
• Monitor incidents and audits to identify policy improvement opportunities.
• Communicate policy updates through various channels.
• Coordinate training updates to reflect policy changes.
• Ensure alignment with MSHA, OSHA, ISO, and other standards.
• Manage document translations for global accessibility.
• Maintain version control and enforce document management protocols.

What You Bring To Freeport

• HS Diploma/GED and seven (7) years of experience in Occupational Health & Safety, Technical Writing, Technical Training, Communications, Regulatory Compliance or a related field; OR 
• Bachelor’s degree and three (3) years of experience in Occupational Health & Safety, Technical Writing, Technical Training, Communications, Regulatory Compliance or a related field; OR 
• Master's Degree and one (1) year of experience in Occupational Health & Safety, Technical Writing, Technical Training, Communications, Regulatory Compliance or a related field
• Create, edit and manage controlled documents such as permits, policies, standard operating procedures, user guides, risk assessments, change management plans, emergency response plans, communication plans, etc. 
• Ability to review and interpret regulatory or standards documents in order to inform policy changes 
• Collaborate efficiently on document creation or changes with a multi-departmental team in a virtual setting 
• Prioritize multiple concurrent projects with minimal oversight 
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills 
• Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills 
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced use of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Microsoft Copilot

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in health and safety field work implementing policies or inspecting policy compliance 
• 1+ year experience participating in the creation or updating of policies specific to health and safety hazards in an industrial setting 
• Knowledge of MSHA or OSHA regulations via past experience in either training, implementing, auditing or enforcing these regulations 
• Previous experience conducting administration of a controlled document library in Microsoft SharePoint or Teams sites involving basic feature proficiency such as permissions management, creating metadata, configuring versioning, customizing document views, etc. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and its “Review” functions such as document compare, document markup, track changes, and comments to manage document review/edit process 
• Previous experience using compliance task tracking software (i.e. Enablon Compliance Module) 
• Multi-lingual (Spanish)