HSE Manager - Process Safety & Environmental Compliance

Summary: 

TETRA Technologies, Inc. is a global organization whose foundation and strength comes from the drive and dedication of our team members. We value equal employment opportunity to stimulate creativity and innovation in our workforce as we use our collective talents to develop unique solutions to address the world's energy challenges.

Founded in 1981, TETRA (NYSE: TTI) is an energy services and solutions company focused on developing environmentally conscious services and solutions that help make people's lives better. With operations on six continents, the Company's portfolio consists of Energy Services, Industrial Chemicals, and Critical Minerals. In addition to providing products and services to the oil and gas industry and calcium chloride for diverse applications, TETRA is expanding into the low-carbon energy market with chemistry expertise, key mineral acreage, and global infrastructure, helping to meet the demand for sustainable energy in the twenty-first century.

Visit the Company's website at www.onetetra.com for more information or connect with us on LinkedIn.

Essential Duties: 

As the Health, Safety, Environmental Manager, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and managing comprehensive health, safety, and environmental programs to ensure the highest standards of safety and compliance at a Process Safety Management (PSM) plant. This role works closely with operations, employees, and contractors to ensure that operating policies and conditions are consistently implemented in accordance with an overall management system of goals, guidelines, and processes to affect a lasting and positive cultural environment. This role requires a proactive individual with good people skills, extensive knowledge of hazard identification, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance.  This is a safey sensitive job.

• Process Safety Management (PSM):
  • Oversee and implement PSM programs to ensure the safe handling and storage of hazardous chemicals.
  • Conduct Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs) and assist with updating process safety information.
  • Improve and maintain a system for managing change to ensure the integrity of the process.
• Health and Safety:
  • Implement health and safety policies, procedures, and guidelines and assist in development of operating procedures as needed.
  • Conduct regular safety audits, inspections, and assessments to identify and mitigate potential hazards. Proactively support the resolution of issues found.
  • Leads and supports the facility by actively participating in HSEQ activities such as emergency plans, behavior-based observations, hazard recognition, HSE monthly meetings, job safety environmental analysis (JSEA), management of change (MOC), and pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR).
  • Lead investigations and root cause analysis into incidents, accidents, and near hits, and implement corrective actions. Responsible for ensuring that incidents and near misses are appropriately reported.

• Environmental Compliance:
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant environmental regulations and standards.
  • Develop and implement programs to reduce the environmental impact of plant operations.
  • Assists with the activities associated with environmental permits such as the preparation and submission of reports, permit applications, monitoring data and correspondence to the appropriate regulatory agencies as required.
  • Monitor and report on key environmental performance indicators.
• Training and Awareness:
  • Develop and assist in delivering comprehensive training programs for employees on health, safety, and environmental matters.
  • Foster a safety culture through communication, training, and awareness initiatives.
  • Ensure employees have appropriate state licenses including but not limited to boiler operator, opacity Method 9, etc.
• Emergency Response Planning:
  • Develop and maintain emergency response plans and procedures.
  • Conduct regular drills and exercises to ensure preparedness for emergencies.
  • Represents TETRA in Local Emergency Planning Committees as well as acting as the local Fire Department liaison. Also represents TETRA in the Community and in local industry HSE groups.
• Regulatory Compliance:
  • Develop and maintain security and vulnerability assessments along with managing the security program for the plant.
  • Stay abreast of changes in health, safety, and environmental regulations.
  • Ensure the organization's compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Security:
  • Manage a team of direct reports of Gate Security contractor staff.

Requirements:

• EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering strongly preferred
• EXPERIENCE: 10 years of experience in a similar role, in a PSM environment
• TRAVEL: 25%
• OTHER:
  • Submit to and satisfactorily complete pre-employment background, medical, alcohol, and drug screening
  • Must possess a valid Driver’s License
  • Strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA, ADEQ, CFATS and other relevant regulations.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Physical Duties:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell.  The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, and climb ladders and stairs. The employee may be required to lift and/or move up to 50lbs; over 50lbs with assistance.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must be capable of taking a leadership role and direction from both the Plant General Manager and the HSEQ Director as well as being flexible in responding to changes in schedules and job priorities, or work assignments.

The position requires work in a hazardous chemical manufacturing environment and involves travel by motorized vehicle to operating site locations as needed. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.