Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

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The Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Specialist provides comprehensive Environmental, Health, and Safety support for R&D laboratory and office operations at the Larkin Center in Midland, MI and reports to the Facilities Services & Real Estate (FS&RE) Senior Supervisor. The EHS Specialist will lead, monitor, and provide consulting for people safety, contractor safety, occupational health, process safety, fire protection, environmental distribution, and ergonomics. Provides key contribution to strategy development and ensures corporate governance, regulatory needs and sustainability initiatives are met. May provide support for mergers and acquisitions implementation plans. This position also supports emergency preparedness, Management of Change (MOC) reviews, and continuous improvement efforts to strengthen safety culture and overall site performance.

Main Responsibilities:

• Conducts job safety and hazard analysis of laboratory and pilot plant areas to identify and mitigate safety, health and environmental issues, such as chemical, biological, physical and radioactive hazards, as well as musculoskeletal stresses. Provides compliance advice for hazard prevention and risk-control principles and strategies.
• Unit subject matter expert resource for matters related to Safety and Health for various line organizations. Establishes and maintains policies to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate EHS requirements.
• Develops, implements, and provides training for site emergency response including maintaining and improving response procedures, participating in drills, and serving as a liaison during response events. Maintaining awareness of emerging risks and developing practical solutions to ensure compliance.
• Leads the site’s EHS first-party audit program to verify compliance with regulations and conformance with corporate standards and other related commitments. Ensures the timely tracking and closure of corrective and improvement actions taken in response to audit findings.
• Manages EHS documentation and training programs to increase proficiency in EHS practices and promote awareness. Documents and maintain required training records per organizational and corporate guidelines. Facilitates training workshops and promotes engagement through interactive safety meetings and employee involvement activities for laboratory personnel and the site.
• Leads and/or participate in incident investigation and corrective actions. Ensures timely reporting, classification, and investigation of EHS incident and near-miss events.
• Introduce and drive best practices across areas from corporate and external benchmarking. Coordinates with various line organizations in making timely adjustments and continuously improving performance indicators through statistical analysis, performance metrics (leading and lagging indicators), monitoring results, etc. for organization’s EHS programs.
• Prepares and submits reports to regulatory agencies, helps to maintain site relationships with external agencies and ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. May assist in maintaining Safety Data Sheets or other safety documentation at the site level.
• Provide EHS input on projects and changes to ensure compliance with EHS requirements and safe work practices. Review Management of Change (MOC) submissions for potential risks to people and property.
• Partners across site functions to align EHS expectations, ensure safe operations, and drive a culture of accountability.
  
  
  

Main requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety or affiliated discipline or another applicable technical field (engineering, chemistry, biology). Associate degree in technical field may be considered with 5 years EHS experience.
• Possess the working knowledge to identify potential risks or gaps in EHS policies and procedures, identify and propose potential solutions, and recommend an action plan.
• Strong interpersonal relationship skills, ability to influence others and work effectively in a team environment with people at all jobs levels that are culturally diverse.
• The ability to understand project goals and requirements, understand business objectives, work independently, manage multiple jobs simultaneously, organize work, set priorities, and train or mentor others.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and tasks in a changing environment to meet challenging business needs.
  
  
  

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