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).