Manager, Environmental Health & Safety

Position Overview

Position Overview: Safety and Environmental Manger, responsible for the development, coordination and management of effective company safety and environmental program in a lean environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the safety programs to ensure a safe environment consistent with regulatory, environmental, and company requirements and needs
• Promotes the company mission, philosophy, goals, and objectives by formulating plans, procedures, and objectives for safety programs and by evaluating effectiveness of the program
• Creates and maintains a work environment that encourages open communication and positive employee relations to establish a climate of openness and trust
• Sets up opportunities for staff involvement and innovation to promote employee creativity and to generate ideas to improve functions, devise solutions, and implement plans
• Operates and maintains water treatment and wastewater equipment, ensuring compliance with state and federal environmental protection limits
• Prepares reports and maintains logs for water treatment systems on meter readings, tests, chemical and equipment usage, and all other record-keeping requirements
• Builds a cohesive team with the skills necessary to successfully meet the departmental/company objectives and strategies
• Communicates training information in a formal classroom setting, and conducts on-the-job training on various safety and environmental programs
• Keeps various safety and environmental records and logbooks up to date
• Works with medical department to follow high-cost or precedent-setting workers’ compensation cases
• Is required to assist with cost-control efforts, and participate in manufacturing improvement committees
• Interfaces with OSHA, and various environmental programs inspectors
• Studies, plan and formulate new and revised safety programs, JSA’s, and rules: prepare recommendations and implement for conformance
• Responsible for effective application of safety and environmental policies and practices and to investigate and eliminate hazardous conditions and unsafe practices
• Through safety and environmental training sessions, meetings, manuals, bulletins, films, etc., keeps supervisory personnel apprised of hazardous conditions and practices, recommend injury prevention measures
• Studies work operations, details of nature of the work, materials and equipment used, products and byproducts, and employee workforce profile
• Industrial hygiene studies may involve exposure to dust, fumes, mists, gases, vapors, noise, heat, and cold
• Affirms new developments in the safety and environmental field that may have application to the company's operations
• Coordinates safety and industrial hygiene to obtain optimum service with insurance carriers
• Investigates serious injuries/incidents in conjunction with line and staff personnel, Human Resources and Occupational Health Nurse
• Aids line and staff management to understand OSHA regulations and standards, including guidance on handling OSHA compliance, inspections and citations
• Manages and maintains appropriate permitting requirements
• Supervises approximately 4 (hourly) direct reports and (1) salaried non-exempt
• Evaluates performance, provides feedback, and completes performance reviews
• Supervises and trains light technical and hourly personnel in performing supporting tasks

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental health and safety, or related field or equivalent experience
• 8-10 years’ experience
• Working knowledge of safety regulations, OSHA, EPA, hazardous materials, and emergency preparedness
• Willingness to travel between GA plants on an occasional basis
• Proficient with Microsoft Word Excel, PowerPoint and Access
• Effective written and verbal communication skills are essential

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual in Spanish
• CSP and/or CIH
• First aid/CPR instructor
• Forklift instructor certified