--- title: "Safety Specialist" company: "Vulcan Elements" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/vulcan-elements" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/vulcan-elements-safety-specialist-ec027097-faf9-454c-8239-896753c6e54e" apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vulcanelements/jobs/5392777008" workplace: onsite location: "Benson, NC" employment_type: unspecified seniority: mid role: operations region: united-states date_posted: 2026-08-25T15:32:35.000Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:13:07.169Z --- # Safety Specialist **Vulcan Elements** · Benson, NC Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vulcanelements/jobs/5392777008 ## About Vulcan Elements Vulcan Elements manufactures rare earth magnets for EVs and defense, driving innovation, efficiency, and supply chain security. ## About the role Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure future. With a focus on national security and economic resiliency, we serve critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and automotive powering a high-technology future. Vulcan Elements is building a team of ambitious professionals committed to Mission Focus, Technical Excellence and Transparency. As a Safety Specialist you will be responsible for providing on-site observation of activities and reporting at the Vulcan Elements R&D facility in Durham, NC. You will ensure health and safety compliance with applicable regulations and existing company standards. This is a full-time, day shift position that will either remain at the Durham R&D facility or transfer to the Benson facility once the Benson facility is operational. **Responsibilities** - Review manufacturing and test procedures and work with the team to draft the job hazard assessments that shape how work gets done. - Run risk-based inspections and see corrective actions through to real closure. - Own the daily tailgate program: set the rhythm, make the content matter to that day's work, and build supervisors' ability to run it independently - Build and run the safety observation and suggestion program — the channel that turns floor-level instinct into trend data leadership acts on. - Lead self-assessments and safety checks across the floor, including the paperwork behind them, evaluating risk and trends to address gaps and establish best in class safety performance. - Monitor safety equipment inventories to ensure supplies such as PPE are readily available for employees. - Provide supplemental environmental compliance support as required by Environmental department - Co-develop OSHA-aligned safety policies with the EHS leader, built for the speed and variability of R&D pilot work, and pressure-test them with the team until they hold up on the floor. - Own the KPIs that prove safety is working — tailgate completion, observation closure, self-assessment trends, corrective action aging — and use them to drive where attention goes next. - Watch how new processes and equipment shift the risk picture, and keep documentation audit-ready as a matter of course. - Facilitate root cause analysis on safety incidents and higher potential near-misses and bring that same rigor to RCAs led by others. - Partner with R&D and process engineering during scale-up so safety gets designed in before new work ever reaches the floor. - Lead by influence — build the kind of trust with supervisors and area owners that makes them want to own tailgates, self-assessments, and corrective actions themselves. *Responsibilities and tasks outlined are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the business.* **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent education and/or experience. - 4-6 years of job specific experience. - Working knowledge of OSHA standards, JHA development, and incident investigation methodology. - Comfort operating with real authority and autonomy. - Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust and credibility. - Completed OSHA 30-hour training **Desired Skills** - Bilingual - First aid/CPR/AED certified **Work Environment and Demands** - Must have a valid driver’s license - Must be able to perform activities including climbing ladders and scaffolds, lifting (up to 35 lbs), walking, balancing, and stooping. - The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate *Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.* --- Source: Vulcan Elements's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/vulcan-elements-safety-specialist-ec027097-faf9-454c-8239-896753c6e54e