Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Job Description:

• The successful candidate for the HSE position will assist the plant manager in achieving corporate objectives.

Responsibilities:

Safety:

• Safety Training: Manage and facilitate the MSHA Part 46 Training Plan, including planning plant training sessions, Part 46 plan updates, new miner, and site-specific trainings. Review existing task training and identify additional critical tasks requiring task training through JSA development, incident investigations and safety audits.
• Client Safety Standards: Coordinate with Corporate HSE staff to sustain safety standards. Work with plant staff to ensure continued compliance with Client Safety Standards.
• MSHA Compliance: Interface with MSHA inspectors and miner representatives during plant MSHA inspections. Provide relevant citation data and photographs to corporate safety personnel. Team with corporate safety personnel to determine citations eligible for challenge.
• Good Catch / Near-Miss / First Aid Accident Investigations: Instruct and facilitate, as required, plant accident investigations that will be led by the Safety Committee members. Assist in the assessment of accidents, first aids, good catches and near misses; and in Root Cause Analyses. Utilize investigation results to ensure a reduction in future accidents.
• Plant Safety Culture Leadership: Actively participate on plant Safety Committees and promote employee engagement to develop an active and robust safety culture. Ensure Safety Committee meetings minutes are published. Follow up on attendee action items to ensure that the Safety Committees are effective. Organize internal facility audits of safety processes.

Health:

• Health Monitoring: Review all health studies with Regional Safety Professionals to ensure that data measurements were valid and then ensure that all appropriate corrective actions are captured within the Client Auditing System

Environmental:

• Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual Reporting: Complete quarterly, semi-annual and annual Title V reports. Complete requests for information supporting GHG, TRI and Air Emission Inventory reporting. Coordinate reporting activities with Corporate HSE to ensure all reports are completed accurately and on time to state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Compliance and Source Testing: Coordinate plant functions with Corporate HSE to plan and implement on-site source testing. Ensure compliance with all internal and external environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Continuous Environmental Improvement: Develop and execute action plan to improve environmental performance against state, federal and Client Uniform Environmental Standards.
• Client Environmental Standards Implementation: Coordinate with Corporate HSE staff to develop and roll out new environmental standards. Work with plant staff to implement new Client Environmental Standards.

Requirements:

• Science/Engineering related bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Two or more years' experience in safety/health and industrial hygiene (MSHA/OSHA) compliance preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to influence others in decision making.