Environmental Health and Safety Professional

Duties And Responsibilities

• Develops and implements action plans for improvement in safety, industrial hygiene, noise levels and environmental compliance.
• Evaluates production procedures to assess consistency with good safety and environmental practices while promoting productive manufacturing methods.
• Affirms all new equipment and equipment/process modifications comply with environmental, health, and safety regulations.
• Leads investigations for all near miss, first aid, property damage and recordable/lost time incidents. Helps develop and implements appropriate corrective actions using appropriate teams and responsible parties.
• Organizes, schedules, and performs all Safety Training including new hire orientation and contractor safety training. Ensures all required safety training meets established regulations and deadlines.
• Manages environmental activities in the facility, including maintaining data, developing engineering changes, processes, and controls, and interpreting, submitting, and assuring compliance with the terms of regulatory permits.
• Schedules and completes emergency drills on all shifts annually. Drills must include but are not limited to coded drills, evacuation, shelter, spill, medical emergency, fire, and security.
• Works with safety team to promote participation in the Safety Awareness Program and assigns resources to corrective actions.
• Maintains SDS information and updates On-Line SDS system. Conducts regular scheduled inspections of AEDs, Emergency Disaster bags, fire blankets, eye wash stations, first aid kits, spill containers, etc.
• Facilitates the activities of the Safety Team with the help of the Human Resource and Plant Managers. Develops bi-weekly agenda, tracks action items, ensures minutes are taken and uploaded.
• Assists with the development and implementation of appropriate emergency response procedures for potential safety and environmental incidents. Assures proficiency of emergency responders through training and drills.
• Maintains data, completes, and submits all required corporate, state, federal and local safety, industrial hygiene and environmental reporting. Utilizes resources to assure compliance with all policies and regulations.
• Coordinates industrial hygiene testing and assures annual auditory testing is administered to appropriate personnel. Interprets results and determines and implements engineering and PPE control measures as required.
• Maintains Safety SharePoint and develops daily TBT for plant meetings. Coordinates and performs safety audits on a regular basis. Identifies and monitors completion of corrective actions to address deficiencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety, occupational health, environmental engineering, environmental management or related engineering field.
• Two to three years of safety experience in a manufacturing environment with environmental and worker’s compensation management responsibilities.
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local government OSHA and environmental regulations.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite required.
• Must have or be able to obtain certifications in RCRA, DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation, First Aid and CPR/AED trainer, and fall-protection.
• Ability to develop curriculum and train employees in safety and environmental.