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** Attendant I - Safety**
**Job Category****:** Technicians **Requisition Number****:** ATTEN003649 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**
* Initiates JSAs and obtains, reads, understands and enforces safe work permits, hot work permits and confined space entry permits.
* Obtains and reviews entire permit at job site, identifying any mistakes and ensuring that any 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. Ensures that all workers have on the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) specified on the permit.
* Follows all procedures while work is in progress. Maintains 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.
* General housekeeping duties and other duties as assigned.
**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, social security card & valid TWIC card.
**KEY SKILLSETS & ABILITIES:**
* Organization and Judgment: Demonstrates initiative and exercises good judgment, planning work and carrying out tasks without detailed instructions; makes constructive suggestions; prepares for problems or opportunities in advance and undertakes additional responsibilities.
* Attention to Detail: Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently.
* Adaptability**:** Ability to adapt quickly to change and be open to considering new approaches to solving problems and work processes.
* Language / Writing: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively in one-on-one and small group situations, including clients and employees.
* Customer Orientation: Demonstrates concern for meeting internal and external customers' needs in a manner that provides satisfaction for the customer within the resources that can be made available.
**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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