Health & Safety Manager

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of employee health and safety for this unionized site.
• Create a "Safe or Stop" atmosphere, with an employee ownership mentality.
• Focus on improvements and changes that will increase the level of adherence to safety policies, procedures, and drive safe actions by all employees.
• Ensure the health and safety of all employees, visitors, and contractors through the adherence to HSE standards, policies, and procedures.
• Partner with plant, regional, and corporate resources to implement proactive solutions to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses.
• Interact with and provide visible safety leadership to all employees, particularly those on the plant floor, to drive safety awareness, engagement, and improvement.
• Improve safety performance by continuously increasing a level of awareness and improving safety systems to reduce, if not eliminate, accidents and injuries.
• Complete inspections, audits, observations, and risk assessments to detect and eliminate at-risk practices and conditions.
• Partner with the plant management team to establish and maintain an active Joint Health & Safety Committee.
• Lead plant safety meetings, safety walk-arounds, and assist Front Line Leaders with crew safety meetings.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance to ensure adequate mechanical and physical safeguards to equipment.
• Ensure equipment is regularly inspected and that all monitoring and testing equipment is calibrated as required.
• Develop, upgrade, and implement the necessary safety and health training programs and systems to ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Company requirements.
• Follow investigation practices and procedures for all accidents and near misses to determine the causes and the corrective actions necessary to prevent recurrences.
• Meet corporate reporting targets by timely completion of investigations and root cause analyses.
• Maintain accurate recordkeeping data as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Implement effective emergency response action programs.
• Collect and analyze injury data to identify trends and recommend improvements.
• Maintain data, records, and documents in a confidential manner.
• Quotes, purchases, and allocates necessary items to ensure a safe working environment.
• Manage contracts related to safety and health systems and equipment.
• Coincides annual hearing testing, medical evaluations, first aid, and CPR training, fit testing, and other required testing.
• Manages and administers site worker’s compensation matters, partnering with HR on return to work and disability management integration where applicable.
• Provides 24/7 availability to plant, as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Safety or equivalent major.
• Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in a Health and Safety role with demonstrated understanding of H&S principles and regulations.
• Strong project management and planning skills in order to develop and then implement an aggressive, forward-thinking, and cohesive plan to improve facility H&S performance.
• Strong persuasion and motivation skills as well as the ability to work across all disciplines and employee levels.
• Solid understanding and experience with continuous improvement processes such as Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, and CIP.
• Knowledge of molten metal, high hazard industry experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of OSHA’s PSM standard.
• Certified Safety Professional is a plus.
• Knowledge of federal and state regulations is a must.
• Prior Union experience is a plus.