Safety Officer

About This Role

Job Title: Safety Officer

Full-Time

About This Role

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma / Past Safety Experience

Responsibilities

• Night Shift Position (2:30pm – 11:30pm)

• Various administrative services as needed.

• Manage and reduce incidences of injuries and non-compliance of company protocols.

• Ensure incident reporting is done in a timely and well documented manner.

• Assist in tracking and reporting all injuries and submitted claims.

• Monitors “Modified Duty Employees” with tracking appointments, depositions, and changes in medical status.

• Assist in completing safety and other audits / inspections as necessary.

• Assist in Human Resources new position dissemination & orientation training.

• Work with Managers, Supervisors & employees in ensuring protocols are being enforced.

• Provide employees monthly, quarterly, annual, and refresher training as needed.

• Complete monthly internal inspections while tracking corrective actions.

• Ensure all employees are trained and adhere to all worksite safety, hygiene protocols and compliance standards.

• Supervise and delegate to the safety team any items pending when Safety Supervisor / Director is not onsite such as trainings, schedules, orientations, employee WC doctor’s appointments or follow up.

• Monitor and interact with 3rd party security companies as needed.

Responsibilities

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing

of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties,

responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Core Competencies:

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.

• Decision Making:

• Uses sound judgment to make good decisions based on information gathered and analyzed.

• Considers all pertinent facts and alternatives before deciding on the most appropriate action.

• Commits to decision.

• Teamwork:

• Interacts with people effectively. Able and willing to share and receive information.

• Co-operates within the group and across groups.

• Reliability:

• Takes personal responsibility for job performance.

• Completes work in a timely and consistent manner.

• Sticks to commitments.

• Integrity:

• Shares complete and accurate information.

• Maintains confidentiality and meets own commitments.

• Adheres to organizational policies and procedures.

• Planning and Organizing:

• Plans and organizes tasks and work responsibilities to achieve objectives.

• Sets priorities. Schedules activities.

• Allocates and uses resources properly.

• Availability:

• Readily available at any moment to assist with day-to-day operations.

• Multi-task:

• Be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time.

• Help with Critical Issues:

• Be able to assist all departments on any critical issues that affect day to day operations.

• Recommend ideas on avoiding issues before they arise.

• Self-Starter:

• Takes initiative to be proactive rather than reactive in day-to-day operational task ranging from injuries, work site safety measures, reports, and any other area where his assistance is and can be needed regardless of it being outside his job scope.

About Vangst:

Vangst is the cannabis industry’s hiring platform. Vangst helps cannabis companies find the talent they need to grow their business. From on-demand gig workers to trained & credential full-time employees, Vangst has built the industry’s go-to talent marketplace for all cannabis hiring. Vangst is proud to work with 1,200+ of the cannabis industry’s leading businesses.

Since raising their seed round in 2018, Vangst has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the cannabis industry and was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Today, over 300,000 people have full-time jobs in the cannabis industry and this number is expected to triple over the next five years. Vangst is on a mission to fill every job in the cannabis industry.

Vangst’s headquarters is in Denver, CO. Vangst is a Series B company and backed by Lerer Hippeau, Colle Capital, Level One Fund, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, and others.

Vangst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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Qualifications

• Must be 21+ years of age

• Bilingual, (English & Spanish)

• Able to work independently and in a team environment

• Ability to maintain a positive attitude

• Proficient in computer applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Power Point & Excel.

• Email Communications

• Authorized to work in the United States

• This position requires a 40-hour minimum work week

Travel:

• May be required to travel between the office and the farm sites on occasion, with gas mileage reimbursement.

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. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand for prolonged periods of time; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Ability to use the tools necessary to perform works tasks, the employee must be able to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 15-50 pounds and work in greenhouse changing temperature environments.

AAP/EEO Statement

Provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed,

religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other

characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

Work Environment:

• Office

• Outside

• Offsite

• Dispensaries

• Processing Operations

• Greenhouses Operations