Safety Engineer
Today• Lexington, NC
Join us in driving industry-leading health, safety, and environmental performance. We're seeking a Senior Associate to deploy our SERE strategy, lead transformational sustainability programs, and collaborate with stakeholders to protect our people and planet.
What will you do?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Safety, Health, and Environmental Engineer to join our Welcome, NC manufacturing facility. This position will ensure the manufacturing location complies with all applicable Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) requirements (e.g., State, Federal and Schneider-Electric). Detailed knowledge and practical application of environment, health, and safety regulations in the U.S and NC is required. The SH&E Engineer will provide EHS support to operations including engineering, manufacturing, and non-manufacturing.
This individual will be an integral part of the Welcome, NC manufacturing operations located 15 minutes south of Winston-Salem, NC and will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to establish the necessary programs to ensure excellent overall results in environment, health, safety and sustainability.
It is envisioned that this individual will promote the importance of a strong environment, health, and safety culture by providing training and establishing/directing EHS programs. This individual must display good communication, planning, and management skills.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure employees and operations maintain compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations; and support the review of any changes to laws and regulations that impact the organization.
- Assist in maintain appropriate metrics, evaluate data trending, and provide data input to management reviews, with a view to continuous improvement and enhancement of EHS performance.
- Assist with the implementation of EHS policies, practices, guidelines, and procedures. Identify location-specific requirements for each area and participate in the development of related programs and policies.
- Assist in developing training programs and conduct training to comply with regulatory corporate EHS initiatives.
- Coordinate incident/accident investigation process including root cause analysis and ensure corrective actions are completed.
- Conduct environment, health and safety audits and risk assessments.
- Participate during external EHS compliance audits and loss prevention audits.
- Coordinate the completion of all corrective actions with site personnel resulting from risk assessments, compliance audits or loss prevention audits.
- Assist during the required permitting submissions for air, water, and land jurisdictional requirements.
- Serve as backup point of contact for government inquiries relating to EHS.
- Actively participate in the site S&E committee.
- Participate in the site's Continuous Improvement/Lean/5S activities.
- Other relatable activities assigned by the S&E Manager.
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Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from accredited institution is required.
- 2 years of experience in safety & environmental or engineering role. Knowledge of OSHA and EPA regulations, job safety analysis processes, accident investigation experience, and ISO 14000 & ISO 45001.
- Embraces a culture of continuous improvement and strives to always exceed expectations.
- Will help drive the culture that every incident is avoidable and being proactive in detecting and eliminating risk is everyone's responsibility.
- Passionate about sustainable development and will help drive the team to continuously reduce the consumption of resources and the environmental impact of the operation.
- Embraces the role of subject matter expert / mentor to the organization and be passionate about educating the overall team on safety, health and environmental aspects.
- Ability to manage projects with on time delivery.
- Ability to lead and influence in a matrixed organization through developing good working relationships and holding others accountable.
- Must demonstrate the ability and willingness to successfully work independently and communicate with senior management.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment
What's in it for me?
- Paid Holidays and PTO Program
- Employee Recognition Rewards
- Company Matching Personal Charitable Donations
- Safety Shoe and Safety Prescription Glasses Voucher Program
- Tuition Reimbursement for Qualifying Programs
- Company Discount Portal
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance provided by Company
- Well-being Program providing the ability to earn rewards
- 401(k) + Company Match
Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, 401(k)+ match, and more. Click here to find out more about working with us: http://se.com/us/careers
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Client-provided location(s): Lexington, NC
Job ID: Schneider_Electric-123358
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-06-12T18:59:18
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