EHS Specialist

Division: BENTELER Steel/Tube – Functional Area: Safety/Health/Environment – Career Level: Professional – Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time – Weekly Working Hours: 40.00 – Required Language: English

About the role

At BENTELER, we make it possible. From promoting individual talents to international career prospects, or from generous opportunities for designing your career to personal development opportunities—we always have answers to your questions about the future, based entirely on your personal needs. Diverse options that make sure you can be anything and everything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

Responsibilities

• Assist the EHS Manager in leading all Environment Health and Safety (EHS) processes to provide a safe workplace that protects and enhances the well-being of employees, guests, and outside contractors in order to comply with all governmental regulations.
• Assure compliance with state and federal regulations in addition to company policies and procedures.
• Consult, train, direct, develop, and implement safety programs and safety committees to promote overall health and safety and to meet OSHA regulations.
• Investigate work-related accidents and injuries and establish appropriate behavior modifications to prevent reoccurrence.
• Investigate potential safety hazards to eliminate risks of workplace injury and environmental hazards to mitigate the risk of pollution to the environment.
• Provide education, policies, and procedures to minimize and eliminate work-related accidents.
• Work with EHS Manager and other personnel to ensure compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Environmental Quality.
• Establish and coordinate an effective security process to protect all associates, property, and visitors.
• Maintain all required OSHA, EPA, DEQ, and other compliance-related reports and paperwork—such as OSHA logs, environmental permit reports, SDS (Safety Data Sheet) information.
• Create, maintain, and monitor accident/incident/near miss/property damage statistics and reports to identify opportunities for improvement, risk areas/equipment, and injury trends.
• Actively assist with safety, environmental, fire prevention, and housekeeping audits/gemba walks.
• Evaluate new equipment and processes and identify areas of improvement by means of risk assessment methodology.
• Coordinate the training of subcontractors by means of training, enforcing rules, auditing, tracking compliance, etc.
• Assist in monitoring air and noise levels to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Work with multiple departments to ensure all waste management paperwork and subsequent reporting to government entities is handled properly and efficiently.
• Work with EHS Manager and co-workers to ensure the local and corporate prevention programs expand to every employee.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Occupational Safety or related field—or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5–10 years’ experience with risk control issues such as employee health, safety, fire protection, and environmental protection, preferably in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
• Ability to analyze regulatory and non-regulatory standards to determine best practices.
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies preferred.
• Experience with medical procedures, protocols, and processes.
• Knowledge of OSHA recordkeeping requirements and safety metric calculations.
• ASP, CSP, CHMM, EMT, or equivalent professional credential preferred.
• SAP knowledge preferred; Microsoft Office Suite required.

Benefits

• 401(k) Match
• Dental
• Development opportunities
• Educational Assistance
• Flexible Work Schedules
• Health Savings Accounts
• Holidays
• Life & Disability coverage
• Medical
• Training
• Vacation
• Vision
• Wealth Management Support