Shift Safety Coordinator

Role overview

Evonik is seeking a Shift Safety Coordinator to support occupational safety, emergency readiness, and site compliance at its Singapore operations. The role sits within a chemical plant environment and is focused on helping maintain a safe workplace, strengthening emergency response capability, and ensuring adherence to Singapore WSH requirements as well as internal safety standards.

What the company offers

The employer describes a workplace built around sustainability, innovation, and employee growth. Benefits mentioned include performance-linked pay, occupational health support, and hybrid and flexible work arrangements under its SmartWork approach. The organization also highlights career development opportunities across a large global workforce.

Key duties

• Deliver safety and ESH-related training covering permits, site induction, occupational health, emergency response, and similar topics.
• Create, update, and sustain procedures that align with site safety rules, health requirements, government regulations, and internal compliance needs.
• Track and evaluate the ongoing implementation of safety and health processes in line with Singapore WSH standards.
• Support the health and safety manager with safety plans, training plans, safety meetings, audits, inspections, investigations, contractor pre-qualification, and renewal of ESH equipment contracts.
• Assess workplace exposure to noise, light, heat, and harmful or hazardous substances.
• Assist with investigations into incidents, dangerous occurrences, and occupational diseases.
• Identify foreseeable workplace and process risks, contribute to risk analysis, and recommend controls to reduce or eliminate hazards.
• Carry out compliance audits, inspections, and daily safety and security rounds across the site.
• Help coordinate industrial hygiene monitoring in plant areas.
• Ensure work-permit compliance for activities such as confined space entry and hot work.
• Work to maintain occupational injury and illness rates at benchmark levels and improve them further.
• Encourage stronger employee and contractor participation, awareness, and ownership of safety and health practices.
• Promote recognition of unsafe or at-risk behaviors among workers and contractors.
• Follow up on service and maintenance of fire protection, firefighting hydrant, emergency call point, and perimeter CCTV systems with relevant engineering and support teams.
• Track maintenance of FCC equipment such as CCTV, lightning warning systems, and the main fire alarm panel.
• Coordinate maintenance of IMT room communication systems and emergency-use equipment such as phone lines, fax, wind sock systems, and computers.
• Train and guide the Site Emergency Response Team.
• Take part in all ERT activities, including annual employee drills, quarterly training, community drills, and mutual aid response support.
• Coordinate fire protection activities with SCDF.
• Approve specifications and oversee the upkeep of emergency response equipment, PPE, and apparatus.
• Confirm that emergency response equipment continues to meet safety and compliance expectations.

Requirements

• A safety professional profile with at least an O level qualification.
• Advanced Certificate level training in line with WSH guidelines.
• Practical experience in firefighting, fire crew training, and incident response.
• Strong teamwork and decision-making ability.
• Good communication skills.
• Fluency in English plus at least one local language.
• Singaporean citizenship or Singapore permanent residency only.
• Ability to use professional firefighting and rescue equipment.
• Familiarity with PPE such as bunker gear, respirators, and Level A/B suits.
• Comfort working in a chemical plant that handles highly hazardous, toxic, flammable, and explosive materials.
• Valid Class 3 driving license for operating an emergency response vehicle.

Application notes

Applicants are asked to submit their details online through the employer’s careers portal. The application should include the earliest possible start date and salary expectations. The employer contact named in the source is Chester Chong, Talent Acquisition Manager, and the company is listed as Evonik Methionine SEA Pte. Ltd.

Additional information

The source references Evonik’s careers website and employee testimonial page, but no external links are included here.

This position is based in Singapore and is a full-time onsite role.

The source does not state a vacancy count, salary, work schedule, or notice period.