Warehouse Safety Specialist

Why join us?

At Design Within Reach, home comes first.  We believe in creating and sourcing pieces that move with you and are meant to be enjoyed over a lifetime – from home to home, generation to generation. For us, that means exceptionally crafted, built-to-last, and beautifully designed furnishings.

Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Design Within Reach means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Design Within Reach to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

GENERAL PURPOSE

As a Warehouse Safety Specialist, you will work to expand employee engagement, team leader safety training, safety program support and partnership at our Distribution Center. The Associate will be directly supporting the Distribution Center team and collaborating with the Global Environmental Health and Safety team. You will also act as a technical Subject Matter Expert for your site in the application of powered industrial truck operations, warehousing, and pedestrian safety programs. Additionally, you will implement MillerKnoll Environmental Health and Safety Management System (EHSMS) procedures, processes, best practices, training, and assisting with execution of warehouse safety capital projects.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Assist site leaders on incident investigations related to high risk pedestrian and powered-industrial-truck activity.

• Be responsible for the annual completion of internal audits to identify gaps in MillerKnoll standards.

• Develop strong working relationships and partnerships with Operations and Retail business units for the distribution center that you directly support.

• Drive ownership through site team leaders of safety programs in the establishment and continued excellence of the site safety steering teams.

• Ensure Technician Safety Concerns are promptly addressed or escalated to applicable support teams at the site, regional, or network level.

• Ensure your site has completed an action plan against the open items to ensure they are closing gaps identified.

• Review incidents to determine which require Global Incident Alerts and require teams to collaborate on the resolution of Technical Safety Concerns.

• Share best practices between your site and within the Global Environmental, Health, and Safety department.

• Stay attuned to changing regulations and internal EHS performance to change policies when required.

• Support and maintain a strong relationship with warehousing, retail, and logistics companies to drive reductions in safety incidents, improve HSMS compliance, and drive continuous safety improvement.

• Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree Occupational Safety and Health, Industrial Hygiene or related degree.

• 5+ years’ experience in Occupational Safety and Health.

Skills and Abilities

• Possess or able to actively work towards ASP, CSP certification.

• Experience in deploying automated reporting systems.

• Detailed understanding of EHS regulatory requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.

• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.

• Ability to adapt well to fast-paced environments with changing circumstances, direction, and strategy.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Design Within Reach is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

This organization participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification. In general, MillerKnoll positions are closed within 45 days and are open for applications for a minimum of 5 days. We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities. We frequently post new opportunities and encourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings.

MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at  careers_help@millerknoll.com.