Job Purpose and Impact

The Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist  is a subject matter authority who assists in leading the environmental health and safety agenda for a high complex facility together with the EHS manager. In this role, you will lead the execution and continuous improvement of the environmental, health and safety and process safety management system at complex facilities consisting of highly regulated processes and activities or low to medium program maturity with elevated risk of serious injuries and fatalities, serious environmental events, severe process safety events or legal matters.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the EHS manager in leading the external reputation and facilitate the community and governmental interaction and prepare required reports, requests for information and inquiry responses and facilitate governmental inspections, customer visits and company audits.
• Identify contractor support and talent needs and oversee onsite contractor activity and understand local risks applicable to contractor and external service providers, implement, monitor and evaluate approved processes to control local environmental, health and safety risks with contractors.
• Develop suitable training content and delivery models in line with global, regional and legal requirements, conduct gap assessment to identify competence needs, adjust curriculum to reflect site specific demand and organize and provide appropriate training.
• Understand, implement and execute environmental, health and safety controls and programs and work processes such as risk identification and assessment, emergency action planning and incident management, agency inspections and audit and internal inspections to ensure they work as intended.
• Partner with plant manager and project leaders and the regional organization to promote and drive a strong environmental, health and safety culture in the facility team by building a mindset where a continuous improvement mentality is viewed as essential to success.
• Completes all environmental regulatory reports on time and accurately: SARA 312 (TIERII), SARA 313 (TRI), Pollution Prevention Progress Report, Monthly Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) state/municipal government, state storm water reporting, Quarterly/Semi-annual Air Reporting, Hazardous Wate License.
• Ensure strong alignment of environment, health and safety goals, metrics and targets with plant vision and targets and govern site performance targets together with plant manager.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Environmental, Safety, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering) or equivalent experience
• Minimum of four years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic business acumen and the ability to partner and communicate effectively with business counterparts.
• Working knowledge of OSHA or EPA standards.