EHS Coordinator (Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator) Position Available In Greenwood, South Carolina

Job Title:

EHS COORDINATOR

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Human ResourcesSummary of Duties:

The EHS Coordinator is responsible for ensuring compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations to create a safe and healthy work environment. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing EHS policies and programs, conducting inspections, creating, and conducting ongoing training; as well as maintaining site specific permits, and managing the administrative needs for recordkeeping, audits, and permits.

Job duties include (but are not limited to):

Promote safety culture by providing guidance and coaching to grow the leadership team and plant operations, while fostering practices that keep the safety of employees a top priority.

Continually evaluate, implement, and maintain health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to protect employees and comply with company, state, federal and local regulations.

Work closely with Human Resources to ensure workplace incidents are reported appropriately and in an accurate and timely manner.

Manage facility workplace incident investigations to include responding to and reporting all incidents, incident investigations, determine root cause, establishing recurrence prevention plans, and follow through.

Plan, schedule, coordinate, and conduct safety training programs in a manner that raises employee’s awareness and enables employees and supervisors to work safely.

Maintain all relevant EHS logs and documentation.

Administer plant safety and environmental initiatives and lead continuous improvement efforts in those areas, utilizing effective communication skills.

Oversee hazardous waste storage area, waste reduction monitoring, and ensure regulatory agency compliance, labeling, containments, proper disposal, and documentation.

Ensure Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are accurate and available to all employees.

Conduct auditing to monitor progress of EHS improvement and compliance, utilize information to implement true root cause corrective actions.

Conduct regular safety walks of work areas to identify and eliminate potential safety risks and talk to the personnel to identify their concerns. Communicate safety and health issues to the workers in a manner to help them understand why they are important and addressing them is for their benefit.

Maintain first responders list, schedule applicable first responder training, and assist in emergency response and provide first aid guidance.

Provide support to applicable special projects as needed.

Minimum Job Requirements (but not limited to):

A minimum of five years of Health, Safety, and Environmental experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment, or a four-year degree in a related field and a minimum of two years of applicable experience. However, an acceptable combination of experience and education may be approved. Knowledge and understanding of