Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Job Title:- Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Location:- Plano, TX 75023 Hybrid

Work Schedule: M/Th 8-5, hybrid with Fridays WFH

Summary

This position is for an Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator. The roles and responsibilities for this position include providing leadership and guidance for our Safety Programs. The ideal candidate will be experienced in developing, implementing, and improving the health and safety programs across all sites within the United States, including all policies, procedures, and training programs. This position requires experience dealing with multiple sites across the country ranging from large warehouses to office environments. This candidate should have an excellent working knowledge of OSHA requirements to ensure continued compliance, ensure effective coordination of safety investigations, and be able to report those incidents and their resolutions to leadership. Ability to see projects and safety initiatives from creation to implementation is important.

Job Description

• Provide assistance to EHS leadership in proposing and implementing new safety initiatives and monitoring their success and compliance.
• Ability to develop, implement, and initiate EHS programs across multiple sites and manage the effectiveness.
• Ensure continued compliance with all OSHA requirements and a good working knowledge of those standards in all types of workplaces, from warehouse environments to offices.
• Establish training programs needed to ensure safe workplaces as well as establish a volunteer emergency coordinator program throughout the system to help with evacuations and safety.
• Establish and oversee various safety programs such as hot work, hazardous material or chemicals, respirator programs, ventilation, and construction projects as well as the handling of OSHA reportable accidents and injuries.
• Establish a volunteer emergency coordinator program throughout the system to help with evacuations and safety and meet required deadlines for completion.
• Familiarity with OSHA reporting, and handling of employee injuries and investigations is needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher from an accredited institution, with degree preferred in Occupational or Environmental Health and Safety, or a related technical discipline / Work experience may be substituted for alternate degree track
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in environmental health and safety and oversight of programs and personnel
• EHS Professional Certifications strongly preferred (CSP, CIH, CEM, etc.) or being pursued
• Strong communications, training, and leadership skills desired
• Dual language ability is preferred
• Ability to communicate technical issues or complex regulatory issues effectively to leadership
• Excellent track record of developing safety programs that have successful long term effectiveness
• Some travel required to conduct assessments at sites across the United States (about 25%)