HSE Specialist

About the role

Graymont is seeking an HSE Specialist based at Graymont’s Port Inland, Michigan operation. The successful candidate will assist the plant manager in achieving corporate objectives through safety, health, and environmental initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Safety Training: Manage and facilitate the MSHA Part 46 Training Plan, including planning plant training sessions, Part 46 plan updates, new miner, and site-specific trainings. Review existing task training and identify additional critical tasks requiring task training through JSA development, incident investigations, and safety audits.
• Graymont Safety Standards: Coordinate with Corporate HSE staff to sustain safety standards. Work with plant staff to ensure continued compliance with Graymont Safety Standards.
• MSHA Compliance: Interface with MSHA inspectors and miner representatives during plant MSHA inspections. Provide relevant citation data and photographs to corporate safety personnel. Team with corporate safety personnel to determine citations eligible for challenge.
• Good Catch / Near-Miss / First Aid Accident Investigations: Instruct and facilitate plant accident investigations led by the Safety Committee members. Assist in the assessment of accidents, first aids, good catches, and near misses, and in Root Cause Analyses. Utilize investigation results to reduce future accidents.
• Plant Safety Culture Leadership: Actively participate on plant Safety Committees and promote employee engagement to develop an active and robust safety culture. Ensure Safety Committee meeting minutes are published. Follow up on attendee action items to ensure effectiveness. Organize internal facility audits of safety processes.
• Health Monitoring: Review all health studies with Regional Safety Professionals to ensure data measurements were valid and that all appropriate corrective actions are captured within the Graymont Auditing System.
• Environmental Reporting: Complete quarterly, semi-annual, and annual Title V reports. Complete requests for information supporting GHG, TRI, and Air Emission Inventory reporting. Coordinate reporting activities with Corporate HSE to ensure all reports are completed accurately and on time to state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Compliance and Source Testing: Coordinate plant functions with Corporate HSE to plan and implement on-site source testing. Ensure compliance with all internal and external environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Continuous Environmental Improvement: Develop and execute action plans to improve environmental performance against state, federal, and Graymont Uniform Environmental Standards.
• Graymont Environmental Standards Implementation: Coordinate with Corporate HSE staff to develop and roll out new environmental standards. Work with plant staff to implement new Graymont Environmental Standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Two or more years’ experience in safety/health and industrial hygiene (MSHA/OSHA) compliance preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to influence others in decision-making.

Skills

• Effective Communicator: Active listener who can communicate effectively with different audiences in diverse situations.
• Detail-Oriented: Exceptional attention to detail and rigorous processes, consistently striving for excellence.
• Effective Time-Management: Prioritizes tasks and manages time to ensure deadlines are met.
• Teamwork: Thrives in a multi-disciplinary team environment and believes in collaborative success.
• Problem Solving: Enjoys immersing in difficult technical problems and devising realistic solutions. Thinks outside the box and uses experience and intuition to assess feasibility.

About Graymont

Founded in 1948, Graymont is a trusted global leader in essential calcium-based solutions. Professionally managed and family-owned, Graymont serves a wide range of markets, customers, and communities throughout North America and Asia Pacific. Graymont is also the strategic partner of Grupo Calidra, the largest lime producer in Latin America.

Graymont’s strategy is anchored in its core values of integrity, respect, teamwork, innovation, excellence, accountability, and long-term perspective. Central to its philosophy is a long-term approach to business, built on sustainable growth and a focus on decarbonization, embodied in its mission: Contributing to a decarbonized world by providing essential lime and limestone solutions.