ROLE PURPOSE:
EHS manager will primarily drive and support site EHS management initiatives at the Van Buren Plant. Together with the operations, engineering, and maintenance teams, the EHS manager will improve overall safety performance of the Van Buren plant. This position will
have a broad range of responsibilities within the environmental, health, and safety area for the Van Buren site.
The position may require the candidate to spend time (20 - 25%) out in the plant.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Champion and lead the overall site environmental and safety program
• Develop and establish an effective EHS program that will yield year-on-year
improvements
• Work with site management and corporate EHS to create/develop a strong safety culture
at all levels of the Van Buren site organization
• Lead process safety management (PSM) and dust hazards analysis (DHA) compliance
activities
• Provide technical assistance in helping with hazard elimination, prevention, and
mitigation and the resolution of other safety issues
• Coach and assist manager/leaders in the development and implementation of effective
safety program
• Assis and participate with department and site-wide safety teams
• Inspect, audit, and monitor equipment, work areas and work practices and procedures
for compliance with established health and safety rules and regulations
• Lead the efforts to ensure action items stemming from incidents, near misses, audits,
inspections, and observations are prioritized and followed up to completion
• Develop safety training, policy development, and safety promotion
• Develop and help administer e-learning courses
• Assist with new and modified processes, equipment, product development to ensure
safety is included at all levels of design through implementation
• Participate in safety and industrial hygiene reviews, routine safety inspections and
incident investigations, making appropriate recommendations
• Assist with the contract safety program
• Maintain accurate plant safety statistics, incident rates, progress against corporate and
plant objectives and provide routine updates to global safety utilizing the safety data
management system
• Participate in network committee meetings and be the conduit
for communication and information between the committee
• Lead the roll out of new committee initiatives at the plant
• Develop the budget for the site safety cost center and manage spending to stay within
budget
• Work with local area safety professionals to share ideas within the Van Buren
community and participate in drills and emergency response
• Prepare and submit all the environmental regulatory reports to the city of Van Buren
and Arkansas DEQ
• Receive environment inspections and audits from the City of Van Buren and the EPA
PERSONNEL:
• Provide effective leadership for all operation and maintenance team members, including
operations for sound practices and work methods
• Initiate improvement action through appropriate resources when necessary
• Coordinates site skill block system
COMMUNICATIONS:
• Supports individual, team, and plant communications that result in teamwork and
accomplishment of area goals
• Ensure proper documentation is completed for storeroom, productions reports, logbooks
and HAACP
• Effectively interact with outside departments and staff groups to maximize
communications and understanding
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• Education (Candidate must possess either)
O Bachelor's degree in industrial or business management
O Minimum of 5 years' experience working in an industrial EHS program
• Experience in conducting safety investigations
• Have strong communication, interpersonal, and observation skills
• Extremely knowledgeable of OSHA, DOT, NFPA, EPA, DEQ and other governmental regulations
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong leadership, training, and organizational skills
• Proficient in the technology used for environmental aspects
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, SAP and/or other softwar
Our Commitment to Fair Hiring:
HireQuest does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or other legally protected group status in making hiring or employment decisions.
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