Environment, Health and Safety Manager

EHS Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Brewster Ohio - Relocation Available
This role is a part of the senior team at the Brewster, OH plant and is accountable for leading a comprehensive safety and wellness process using a proactive approach.

Primary Responsibilities

• Create a Safety Culture, where our associates' safety and well-being is always the #1 priority.
• Engage with associates daily, help lead safety messaging and stretching exercises during shift meetings.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure safety training and compliance is very effective.
• Create and implement a Safety Strategy for the plant.
• Share key learnings, issues, opportunities, and best practices as an active contributor to the Safety Community across the plant network and build relationships with peers and cross-functional partners.
• Lead a caring safety culture that is focused on people.
• Lead processes necessary to ensure a safe working environment – every shift, every day.
• Lead the facility to meet or exceed established corporate safety goals aligned with business needs.
• Lead processes necessary to be compliant with applicable federal, state and local safety requirements and remain current on changing requirements; handle any applicable audits or OSHA visits.
• Lead programs, training and messaging to recognize, reward and promote safe behaviors throughout the facility – catch our associates doing things right.
• Drive strong accountability with leaders to be role models of safe behaviors.
• Lead programs to correct unsafe acts and unsafe conditions with the workplace.
• Work collaboratively with the Site Director, HR and Worker’s Compensation/Leave Experts (both in the plant and at the support center) on all decisions related to injuries, leaves, reasonable accommodations/return to work, discipline and leave case management.
• Show a strong sense of urgency around communication and a proactive approach to issues and concerns.
• Stay apprised on trends and best practices – both across the network and within the marketplace and the Safety Community.
• Ensure relevant data, compliance records & training, postings, procedures and reporting is complete, accurate and in compliance.
• Extract insights from our data to identify trends/issues/opportunities and create a plan to address those insights (may be ergonomic, PM issues, training gaps, etc.).
• Build high performing teams, develop and retain top talent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in safety, operations, engineering, business or related field is preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in EHS is required.
• Experience influencing and training large manufacturing teams and management to promote and lead by example a safe work environment and to always remain in compliance with all legal and company safety regulations.
• Minimum three years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to lead others – servant leadership style is the best fit for our culture.
• Knowledge of OSHA, Logout Tagout, Machine Guarding and other State/Federal requirements.
• Ability and willingness to work flexible schedule.