Job Description
This role involves leading environmental, health, and safety (EHS) initiatives at a manufacturing plant, including hazard mitigation, safety training, compliance audits, incident investigations, and promoting a safety-first culture to achieve zero incidents.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and mitigate workplace hazards in the plant environment
- Collaborate with Plant Manager and teams to improve EHS programs
- Provide safety training to employees, contractors, and vendors
- Lead Safety Committee meetings and Emergency Response Team activities
- Conduct EHS compliance audits and assessments of facilities and contractor work
- Communicate safety plans and findings effectively with contractor teams
- Investigate health and safety incidents, including root cause analysis
- Implement safe work practices to achieve zero incidents and accidents
- Ensure regulatory compliance with OSHA, EPA, NFPA, and other agencies
- Provide technical expertise in safety standards and regulations
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) in a manufacturing setting.
- Ability to identify workplace hazards and work with plant staff to mitigate and abate these hazards.
- Ability to work closely with the 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 location's Emergency Response Team.
- Perform EHS compliance audits and assessments of the 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 and Safety incidents, including root cause analysis.
- Implement safe work practices and behaviors to achieve zero incidents and 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.
- Hold previous certification in the following regulatory topics: Combustible Dust Accident Prevention, First Aid, CPR, AED, 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.
- 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 hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments.
- Willing and able to strictly adhere to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule not specified
Work environment includes outdoor environments and industrial settings with temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, hot, humid, cold, and noisy conditions
Safety training provided to all employees, contractors, and vendors
Opportunities for leading safety initiatives and culture change
Potential for certifications such as OSHA 30 Hour-General Industry, OSHA 30 Hour-Construction, NFPA 70e, and others
Possibility to work in a purpose-driven, purpose-driven, global energy company focused on renewable energy solutions
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