Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia's market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a dynamic Environmental, Health, and Safety Coordinator who will have a positive impact on the Operations team at its Fort Smith, AR location. As an EHS Coordinator, you will supervise and administer the EHS programs in a manner consistent with corporate and governmental standards.

The successful candidate will have the following Key Accountabilities:

EHS

• Monitor work activities to ensure plant personnel are in alignment with safety training programs consistent with Corporate Safety and Health policies that incorporate required regulatory training.
• Maintain and direct safety training programs, including MSHA New Miner Training, Annual Refresher Training, Site Specific Contractor Training, First Aid, CPR & AED training and all provisional training as required by environmental permits.
• Monitor and perform regularly scheduled audits and inspections for plant program adherence to all policies, processes, equipment and work areas.
• Conduct incident and near hit ICAM investigations.
• Manage employee physicals and audiograms.
• Perform industrial hygiene sampling for both personal and work areas relating to dusty, heavy metals and noise categories to meet corporate sampling and health objectives.
• Supervise the operation and maintenance of equipment relating to the control of water and air pollution and the monitoring equipment associated with environmental requirements.
• Submit reports for all safety & environmental policies, procedures and regulations at the Federal, State, Local and Internal levels for subjects including safety inspection, MSHA man-hours worked, WC & MSHA injury.
• Perform various activities to maintain compliance with required local, state, and federal laws and all associated permit regulations including: NPDES Water Sampling and Reporting, air quality monitoring and annual storm water inspection planning and maintenance.

General

• Work under the direction of the EHS Supervisor.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The successful candidate will have the following Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or related field required.
• 1-2 years of Occupational Safety & Health experience required, EHS experience in mineral processing preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & SharePoint.

Commitment to Our Culture:

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage-guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision: Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success-ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

• Live the Life-Saving Rules
• Build high-performing work teams
• Focus on customers
• Demonstrate a growth mindset
• Do the right thing, always

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality, and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or military service or reserve or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.

Benefits:

• Excellent Healthcare Benefits - medical, vision, dental
• 401K with company matching and fixed annual contributions
• Vacation Paid Holidays
• Disability, Life / AD&D, and Long-Term Care Insurances
• Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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