Senior Ergonomist
2 weeks ago
**Job description**
- Implement, drive, and grow the ergonomics program across the APAC region.
- Work with Global Ergonomics Program manager and site EHS leads to ensure customer happiness, lead-time, and product quality are acceptable.
- Review and assess program compliance with local regulations.
- Perform office ergonomics evaluations, risk assessments, conduct group training and workshops, development and marketing of the ergonomics program.
- Support industrial ergonomics risk assessments, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and solution development.
- Respond to service requests from customers as the needs for solutions, products and technology change. Help ensure customer happiness, lead-time, and product quality are acceptable.
- Provide employee education and mentor in safe work practices to prevent injury and illness.
- Maintain current knowledge of preferred ergonomics tools (e.g., chairs, input devices, risers, etc).
- Work with engineering and design teams to develop solutions to identified ergonomics challenges.
- Provide technical support to clients through activities such as rearranging workplace fixtures to reduce physical hazards or discomfort or modifying task sequences to reduce cycle time.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motion.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program efficiency or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Travel as required in support of regional locations.
**Requirements**:
- 5+ years' experiences in the performing and conducting ergonomics risk assessments in industrial and office settings.
- Experience managing and/or responsibilities implementing ergonomics programs.
- Knowledge and understanding of biomechanics, musculoskeletal anatomy, and ergonomics engineering principles, as well as manual material handling principles.
- Familiarity with quantitative ergonomics risk-assessment techniques. Experience using measurement tools and and use of various evaluation tools (e.g., RULA, REBA, NIOSH Lift Equation, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to prepare accurate, concise and technically correct written work products and reports.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and with a team, and communicate effectively with health and safety professionals, management team and workforce.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational, analytical, and influencing/interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to initiate and sustain productive business relationships.
- Excellent project management skills, including the identification and scheduling of project deliverables, milestones, tasks and deadlines.
- Ability to effectively work across a broad spectrum of functions within business units.
- Validated presentation skills with ability to present technical information and concepts in a clear and concise manner virtually and in-person.
- Good problem solving skills with ability to develop new ideas in order to provide innovative solutions