Site Safety Leader

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The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) is a Fortune 500 global power company whose mission is to improve lives by accelerating a safer and greener energy future. We provide affordable, sustainable energy to 15 countries through our diverse portfolio of distribution businesses as well as thermal and renewable generation facilities. Our workforce is committed to operational excellence and meeting the world's changing power needs. Combining deep local insight with a global presence and more than 30 years of experience, AES has a proven commitment to ensuring operational excellence in providing electricity to its customers.

AES is currently seeking a Site Safety Leader for its Harding Street Station (HSS), 1,100MW gas-fired conventional power plant located in Indianapolis. In close collaboration with HSS site leadership, the Site Safety Leader will proactively plan, direct, and implement the Company's safety expectations to ensure a safe, healthy, and accident-free work environment. This role will provide direct support to the HSS site team, ensuring the O&M teams are conducting their maintenance and operations activities in a safe manner for the protection of our employees, clients, contractors, subcontractors, and the public. The ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate strong leadership skills, work well in a team environment, have excellent communication skills, and will strive to enrich the Company Culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• This position will be focused on health & safety related matters at the Harding Street Station Natural Gas Power Plant

• Collaborate with HSS leadership to ensure HSS H&S programs are maintained and implemented to high standards

• Lead activities and efforts around health & safety-related incidents and investigations and perform Root Cause Analysis in collaboration with the HSS team

• Identify and build action plans and strategies through analytics

• Maintain compliance with legal and regulatory health & safety requirements

• Maintain and continually improve the Safety Management System

• Direct, develop and deliver health & safety training programs

• Contribute to achieve health & safety targets in support of business objectives.

• Acts as the lead health & safety person or technical authority on complex projects

• Lead, promote and implement H&S initiatives that establish and reliably deliver a high-quality safety culture and safety practices.

• In close coordination with AES global H&S teams, ensure lessons-learned and resulting improvement initiatives are both shared from HSS and implemented as received from elsewhere across the company.

• Other duties as assigned

Key Requirements:

• 5+ years related experience minimum

• Bachelor's degree in EHS or related field (preferred)

• In lieu of a recognized degree, having obtained an ASP, CSP, OSHA 510 or 511 certification will be expected

• Experience in supporting operations and maintenance of electric power generation and/or electric utility systems and equipment (preferred)

• Confirmed leadership skills

• Possesses a passion for Environmental, Health and Safety

• Possesses understanding of safety programs, understands how to operate with them and knows why they are in place

• Ability to effectively communicate and influence at all levels of an organization

• Able to build relationships and trust with key stakeholders and contractors; strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to review, analyze and draw conclusions from data; effectively use the conclusions to make and communicate key recommendations

• Strong computer and analytical skills

• Ability to lead assigned tasks to closure while maintaining a prominent level of professionalism

• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced and challenging work environment

• Demonstrates alignment with AES Values