Safety and Environmental Manger, responsible for the development, coordination and management of effective company safety and environmental program in a lean environment. Develops behavior-based safety learning and training.

Safety and Environmental Manger demonstrates professional and community involvement and leadership both within the safety and environmental field and the community.

• Coordinates the EHS 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 EHS 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
• Seeks out 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
• Build a cohesive team with the skills necessary to successfully meet the departmental/company objectives and strategies
• Delivers training information in a formal classroom setting, and conducts on-the-job training on various safety and environmental programs to all required facility personnel.
• 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, and the like
• Interfaces with OSHA, and various environmental programs inspectors
• Study, 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., keep supervisory personnel apprised of hazardous conditions and practices, recommend injury prevention measures
• Conducts industrial hygiene studies that may involve exposure to dust, fumes, mists, gases, vapors, noise, heat, and cold