EHS Manager

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).