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SUMMARY OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
The Bilingual EHS Coordinator supports a safe and compliant workplace by implementing environmental, health, and safety programs. Responsibilities include conducting inspections, investigating incidents, delivering safety training, monitoring regulatory compliance, and partnering with on-site teams to identify hazards and implement corrective actions. The role also collaborates with the Learning and Development team to identify safety-related learning needs and support training content development.
The ideal candidate is bilingual in English and Mandarin and can provide accurate interpretation and translation support for Mandarin-speaking expatriate managers, ensuring safety procedures, expectations, and training are clearly understood across language and cultural differences.
Responsibilities
Safety Programs & Compliance
- Provide daily EHS support to assigned operational departments, project teams, supervisors, and field personnel.
- Attend departmental meetings and provide updates on safety performance, concerns, trends, action items, and improvement opportunities.
- Participate in toolbox talks, safety briefings, pre-task meetings, and other required safety activities.
- Conduct field walkthroughs, hazard assessments, PPE compliance checks, and safety inspections.
- Take immediate action, including exercising stop-work authority when necessary, if an imminent danger or serious safety risk is identified.
- Monitor work activities involving filter replacement, ceiling access, fall protection, cleanroom entry, and active facility areas.
- Support incident reporting and investigations, root-cause analyses, and corrective-action tracking.
- Maintain safety reports, training records, inspection logs, and other compliance documentation.
- Provide interpretation support for Mandarin-speaking expatriate managers on-site and clearly communicate safety expectations to both Mandarin- and English-speaking employees.Â
- Assist with new-hire onboarding, including required safety orientation and training.
Learning & Development Support
- Collaborate with the Learning & Development (L&D) team to gather safety-related learning needs, field examples, and practical information from project sites — including on-site photos, experience-sharing, and other reference materials to support learning content development.
- Provide field information and practical experience to support the development and maintenance of safety training materials and related learning resources, based on EHS or L&D needs.
- Collect feedback from learners and field teams to support continuous improvement of learning content, and facilitate objective, fact-based communication among EHS, L&D, and field operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related field preferredÂ
- Experience managing the safety efforts on construction projects preferred; prior field experience preferred
- Ability to work with all construction groups: management, owners, trades and subcontractors
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin preferred, with the ability to support interpretation/translation for Mandarin-speaking expatriate managers on-site.
- Must have excellent communication, organizational, decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Basic understanding of workplace safety principles, hazard identification, and regulatory compliance concepts (e.g., OSHA standards); willingness to develop deeper expertise on the job.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to relay information objectively and factually to cross-functional teams (EHS, L&D, and site operations).
- Comfortable collecting feedback from diverse stakeholders and synthesizing it for use by others.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and comfort learning new digital tools (e.g., LMS platforms, incident-reporting systems).
- Ability to travel to or work across multiple project/job sites as needed.
- Relevant safety certifications (e.g., OHST, STS-C, OSHA 30).
PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Previous experience in construction, plumbing, or a related field is preferred.
- OSHA 500
- OSHA 510Â
- First Aid/CPR
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
- 2+ years experience working as a safety representative in a construction setting
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