Job Details
** Attendant I - Safety**
**Job Category****:** Technicians **Requisition Number****:** ATTEN003284 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
**Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities**
* Obtains and reviews entire permit at job site, identifies any mistakes, ensures that mistakes are corrected. Sets up the job per procedures for work being performed. Knows who to contact in case of emergency and where the nearest eyewash and safety showers are located.
* Ensures that proper equipment needed for job is in place. (e.g. vest, meters, radios, air horn, barricade tape or breathing air barricades and tags; fire extinguisher, charged water hose with nozzle, horn, fire blankets or burlap to cover drains, PPE).
* Follows all steps required before allowing work per guidelines and procedures specific to work being performed. Ensured that all workers have on the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) specified on the permit.
* Follows all procedures while work is in progress. Keeps visual and/or radio communication with crew. Observes work conditions and maintains awareness of anything that could endanger the workers.
* Conducts job completion routine and completes all documentation per procedure.
* Gathers equipment and notifies customer that job is complete.
* Assists others as needed.
**Qualifications**
**Education:** High School Diploma or GED preferred.
**Experience:** Previous experience in a plant preferred.
**Required Licenses or Specific Training:** Must have valid state id and social security card.
**Other Required Skills, Knowledge or Abilities:** Ability to read, write and comprehend English (operational, process, safety and quality instructions and work permits and Plant / Refinery Fire Watch and Fresh Air procedures). Second language is a plus.
Ability to quickly grasp training and pass certifications to work in-plant.
Ability to operate equipment including atmospheric monitoring meters (O2, H2S, CO & LEL), radios and fire extinguishers. Familiarity with plant equipment where work is being performed is helpful.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to quickly become proficient in the care and use of all site specific, facility required Personal Protection Equipment.
Must be able to work outdoors in an industrial environment.
Must demonstrate ability to work in a team environment and willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily.
**Interpersonal Communications:** Ability to read, write and comprehend English (operational, process, safety and quality instructions and work permits and Plant / Refinery Fire Watch and Fresh Air procedures). Second language is a plus. Must have good communication skills (verbal, written and interpersonal) and have confidence to tell someone that they may not perform work if conditions or procedures are not safe. Contacts with immediate associates and immediate supervisor for instructions, training and guidance. Frequent contact with customer and job site personnel so communication and interpersonal skills are critical to success.
**Physical Demands**
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, climb, stoop and bend. Uses hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
**Work Environment**
Industrial or shop environment. Frequently exposed to wet, humid, outside weather conditions and vibration. Works in some customer environments during later part of training. May be exposed to high pressure, chemicals, gas releases, or fire. The noise level in work environment is usually moderate.
**Reporting Relationships**
**Complexity of Duties and Decisions:** Must follow established operational, process, compliance and safety and emergency response procedures. Must adhere to specifications and schedule. Work is reviewed for completeness and accuracy, or inherent checks are built into the nature of the work. Most errors are caught during self-inspection or by higher level staff before leaving work unit.
**Authority:** Works under close supervision: Works with a supervisor or a more experienced Attendant or Technician to learn the job.
**About Total Safety:**
**Total Safety** is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, comprehensive flare services, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management.
**Total Safety** operates from 176 locations in 20 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).
**Total Safety** is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.
If you require special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment with Total Safety, please contact Human Resources at (713) ###-####. (For telecommunications device for the hearing impaired TTY, please contact 711).
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