How You’ll Perform the Role

Advance initiatives which promote and sustain the safety, health, security, and welfare of all personnel.
Develop, deploy, and monitor all EHS programs, procedures, policies, and standards in a manner that ensures compliance to Federal, State, Local, Customer, and align with Corporate EHS requirements.
Provide focus, direction, leadership, and technical expertise to the various tactical teams (Plant Safety Lead Teams; High Risk Teams - Ergonomic, Electrical Protection, Fall Protection, Mobile Equipment, Guarding; Storm/Waste Water Pollution Prevention, SPCC, Behavioral-Based Safety Training Team.)
Implement and administer an internal EHS hazard/risk assessment and compliance auditing process designed to validate adherence to ‘best known’ standards and practices.
Implement and administer a root cause analysis procedure/process design to reveal and capture intellectual wisdom from all near miss and/or failure occurrences.
Communicate post incident / near miss findings (written/verbal: Incident Flash; Detailed Incident Investigation; and phone / net conferences).
Develop, implement, and institutionalize a process to identify and eliminate high risk occurrences through review of historical incident data; leading/warning indicators; plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity observations; and highly specified JSA’s and SWI’s.
Stimulate and cultivate “a zero-incident mentality” throughout the facility.
Provide applicable management/agency notification, oversight, interface, and coaching.
Proactively work with the HR Manager in the administration of Workers Compensation case management.
Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all environmental reports (Air Emission Summary, TRI, Tier II, SWPPP, deviation reports, and waste disposal both hazardous and non-hazardous, etc).
Develop, report, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of all related leading and lagging performance and success measures.
Assess and evaluate plant EHS connections and make recommendations to the Plant Manager regarding strategies to remedy training, skills, or performance deficiencies.

What We Need From You

BS Degree in Occupational Safety and Health, Mechanical/Chemical Engineering, Business/Organizational Management or related field preferred.
Related post-education training, certifications such as CIH, CSP, CPEA, or CHMM preferred.
5+ years of experience implementing EHS standards, training and legal compliance in a manufacturing environment preferred.
An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
Self-motivated, organization skills, and ability to multi-task.
Demonstrated experience in leading cultural change across a facility; experienced in leveraging multiple approaches to helping people adopt and implement sustained change in a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated experience in leading continuous improvement activities and programs, leveraging processes, tools, and best practices in a manufacturing environment.
Excellent “soft skills” in communicating effectively with all levels of the organization.
Effective in influencing change across functional and demographic boundaries.
Budget/cost management; strategic planning and leadership experience preferred.
Proficient in use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, etc).