Bilingual Mandarin Safety Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

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. 
• 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 preferred 
• 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 510 
• First Aid/CPR
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• 2+ years experience working as a safety representative in a construction setting