Responsibilities

• Identify workplace hazards and work with plant staff to mitigate/abate these hazards
• Work closely with Plant Manager to understand company needs and mission.
• Work closely with Plant team and corporate resources to continuously improve EH&S programs.
• Provide safety training to all employees, contractors, and vendors as required.
• Lead Safety Committee meetings.
• Perform EH&S compliance audits/assessments of facility and contractor work activities.
• Effectively communicate with contractor teams to create a documented safe work plan.
• Provide prompt documentation of assessment findings, observations, and recommendations.
• Conduct investigations of Health & Safety incidents to include root cause analysis.
• Implement safe work practices and behaviors to achieve ZERO incidents/accidents (TIR).
• Ensure employees’, contractors’, and vendors’ work practices are in regulatory compliance with applicable regulatory agencies, as well as with company standards and policies.
• Provide subject matter expertise in technical areas to include OSHA, EPA, NFPA, NEC, NIOSH, ANSI, and ASTM.

Qualifications 

• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading EHS in a manufacturing setting
• Identify workplace hazards and work with plant staff to mitigate/abate these hazards.
• Work closely with Plant Manager to understand company needs and mission.
• Ability to influence Plant Manager, supervisors, and team leaders to lead with safety
• Provide EHS training to all employees, contractors, and vendors as required.
• Lead Safety Committee meetings.
• Lead the locations Emergency Response Team
• Perform EH&S compliance audits/assessments of facility and contractor work activities.
• Effectively communicate with contractor teams to create a documented safe work plan.
• Provide prompt documentation of assessment findings, observations, and recommendations.
• Conduct investigations of Health & Safety incidents to include root cause analysis.
• Implement safe work practices and behaviors to achieve ZERO incidents/accidents (TIR).
• Ensure employees’, contractors’, and vendors’ work practices are in regulatory compliance with applicable regulatory agencies, as well as with company standards and policies.
• Provide subject matter expertise in technical areas to include OSHA, EPA, NFPA, NEC, NIOSH, ANSI, and ASTM.

Previous certification in the regulatory topics below:

• Combustible Dust
• Accident Prevention
• First Aid/CPR/AED and Bloodborne Pathogens
• Confined Space
• Lockout
• Electrical Safety
• Emergency Response
• Fire Prevention
• Hazard Communication
• Material Handling
• Hearing Conservation
• OSHA Recordkeeping
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Power Tool Use and Guarding
• Respiratory Protection
• Crane/Hoist/Rigging Safety
• Welding/Hot Work
• Incident Investigation
• Working from Heights
• Working and Walking Surfaces

Preferred Qualifications - What Will Set You Apart

• OSHA 30 Hour-General Industry
• OSHA 30 Hour-Construction
• NFPA 70e
• Root Cause Analysis (Cause Mapping/Taproot etc.)
• Experience in leading culture change
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)

Working Conditions

• Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees 
• Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment 
• Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment