Health – Safety & Environmental Manager

Health – Safety & Environmental Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety or US equivalent
• 5 years’ experience leading HSE in a manufacturing/industrial environment
• Prior exposure to ISO14001 & ISO 18001 environmental & occupational standards
• Prior experience in heavy industrial manufacturing environment
• Ability to demonstrate experience of working with formal Management of Change systems (MOC)
• Demonstrated experience in the application of behavioral safety management systems
• Experience with environmental compliance with Federal, State and Local EPA, and Ohio EPA
• Experience with TRI (Toxic Release Inventory), Tier 2, Stonewater, HazWaste
• Experience with Compliance Inspections, Auditing, and Industrial Hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the site has robust systems and procedures that demonstrate compliance with all relevant national legislation in the area of HSE and that a regular audit schedule is carried out to validate compliance to regulations.
• Ensure that the site demonstrates compliance with corporate standards and develops HSE standards in line with company defined objectives
• Defines and develops Health, Safety & Environmental Improvement strategies in line with site & company strategy and meeting short term objectives
• Acts as the subject matter expert (SME) on site for HSE issues and provides guidance to all managers and staff while acting as the focal point for all regulatory authorities external to the site on HSE topics including reporting of incidents to meet Unifrax and national HSE reporting standards.
• Maintain & develop the HSE pillar & subcommittee management structure to drive improvement in safety performance on site, employee engagement and reduction in risk to all employees.
• Manage communication of site safety & environmental performance to group level in line with business expectations.
• To ensure that full root cause analysis is carried out using appropriate investigation techniques on all first aid, recordable, lost time incidents and fires. Following Root Cause Analysis, ensure follow up and completion of action plans & management of stakeholders to completion to prevent reoccurrence.
• Maintain a regular occupational dust / fiber monitoring campaign to ensure compliance to corporate and national standards and produce regular internal communications on atmospheric monitoring results to the workforce.
• Manage occupational health surveillance monitoring within the site to ensure that the employees are not exposed to long term risk within the workplace and that the organization is not exposed to liability from employee behaviors.
• Ensure risk assessments are completed / maintained in line with the sites defined schedule or when changes are made to the process inside the workplace via a recognized change management system. Ensure timely completion of resulting action plans with relevant managers and stakeholders.
• Ensures employees are trained in HSE topics in order to meet minimum site standards in safety for each role carried out in their employment & new employees (agency, contract or permanent staff) have SHE inductions before commencing work in line with company policies.
• Ensure that the site meets, maintains & develops emergency response procedures with drills and desktop exercises that meet corporate and national emergency response standards to ensure that all personnel conduct themselves in an appropriate manner in the event of an emergency.
• Manage the site safety budget on a monthly basis, understanding any causes of over (and under) spend; contribute to operational financial (budget) planning of safety items / consumables (PPE) and small improvement activities to improve HSE within the site.
• Define and sponsor medium scale improvement projects to improve workplace safety standards including submission of CAPEX documentation for HSE investment.
• Coaches, guides and influences other managers to improve / develop management styles & behaviors to improve the safety culture on site, while acting as a role model to ensure noncompliance Vs regulation in the workplace is not tolerated.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.