Sr Safety Professional- Ergonomics
Job Description
Location Anaheim, California, United StatesBusiness Walt Disney World ResortDate posted Jun. 12, 2024
Job Summary:
About the Role & Team
"We make magic.” That’s our motto at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you’ll help inspire that magic by enabling our teams to push the limits of entertainment and create the never-before-seen!" "“We create happiness.” That’s our motto at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. And it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you’ll help encourage that magic by enabling our teams to push the limits and build the never-before-seen! Are you ready to join this team and make an impact?"
As a Senior Safety Professional, you will be an important resource. You will drive the identification, assessment, analysis, and solving of a broad spectrum of safety and ergonomic issues across a diverse group of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts businesses.
The Senior Safety Professional will report to a Manager of Safety
Responsibilities
What You Will Do
On any given day, as a Senior Safety Professional, you might:
- You will work in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously
- Drive the implementation of safety and ergonomic programs, performing job task analysis, facility, and design/modifications, analyzing injury and illness trend data, evaluating safety performance, and finding opportunities to improve safety and ergonomics performance.
- Lead the development and implementation of ergonomic strategies and tactics
- Lead and/or participate in incident investigations and follow-ups
- Improve performance, review source material (rules, codes, laws, and standards) identify and share industry practices
- Ensure implementation of applicable safety standards and established regulations
- Manage relationships and work as part of a team within a matrix environment with all levels of leadership and employees
- Analyze injury and illness data, prepare presentations on trends and mitigation plans, then share them with your peers/leaders
- Serve as the Safety & Health Duty Manager on a rotational basis.
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications & Skills
Here’s what you need to be successful at this job:
- 5+ years of industrial safety and ergonomics experience in a related industry such as maintenance, manufacturing, hospitality, entertainment/theatrical, transportation, distribution/warehouse
- Knowledge and hands-on application in regulatory standards, best-practices and guidelines, such as ergonomics, incident investigation and root-cause analysis
- Experience with strategic thinking, prioritization, and initiation of tasks
- Experience with proper writing, speaking, and presenting to all levels of employee
- Resolve conflicts and diffuse difficult situations.
- Experience with assessing, analyzing, identifying, and solving body motion and ergonomic issues across a diverse group of Disney Parks and Resorts businesses.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in the entertainment/hospitality industry
- Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or Certified Safety Professional (CSP) designation
- Board Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE)
- Bi-lingual language skills
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in occupational safety/or health, industrial hygiene, life science, physical science, or engineering.
Preferred Education
- Advanced degree in Ergonomics or Human Factors Engineering
