The position involves leading environmental health and safety programs at a manufacturing plant, including hazard identification, safety training, compliance audits, incident investigations, and promoting a safety-first culture to achieve zero incidents.
Key Responsibilities
Identify and mitigate workplace hazards in collaboration with plant staff
Implement and improve environmental, health, and safety (EH S) programs
Provide safety training to employees, contractors, and vendors
Lead safety team and Safety Committee meetings
Conduct EH S compliance audits and assessments of facilities and contractor activities
Communicate with contractor teams to develop documented safe work plans
Document assessment findings, observations, and recommendations promptly
Investigate health and safety incidents, including root cause analysis
Implement safe work practices to achieve zero incidents and accidents
Ensure compliance with regulatory agencies and company standards
Provide technical expertise in safety-related areas such as OSHA, EPA, NFPA, NEC, NIOSH, ANSI, and ASTM
Requirements
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 Manager, supervisors and team leaders to implement and continuously improve EH S programs.
Provide safety training to all employees, contractors, and vendors as required.
Lead safety team 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 including OSHA, EPA, NFPA, NEC, NIOSH, ANSI, and ASTM.
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.
Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, and pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day.
Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
Willing and able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting productivity standards.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified)
Work schedule (12-hour shifts, outdoor environment, ability to work in various temperatures and noisy industrial settings)
Work environment perks (outdoor work, industrial environment, safety equipment requirements)