Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Position Function:

This position is accountable for developing, organizing, administering and maintaining the health, environment and safety program, whose purpose is to minimize the number and reduce the severity of in-plant accidents and injuries while maintaining the well-being of its employees, as well as the community. The program must comply with all federal, state and corporate policies and procedures. This position also identifies analytical sources of environmental risk and monitoring to determine the effects. Collects air, water, vapors, gases and dust samples or potentially toxic materials for analysis. Conducts evaluations and surveys to determine the exposure levels encountered. Prepares reports including education meetings related to health, safety, or environmental concerns. Analyzes data and assesses pollution problems. Prepares graphs and charts using working knowledge of statistics.

Responsibilities:

To include but not limited to the following

• Develop, implement, and maintain environmental programs to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local agencies.
• Serve as the primary liaison with environmental regulatory agencies such as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state agencies (e.g. DEP).
• Monitor and evaluate environmental impact related to air emissions, water discharge, and hazardous materials.
• Conduct environmental audits and inspections to identify risks and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Manage environmental permitting and reporting requirements.
• Assists with incident investigations regarding injuries and tracks injury rates and trends.
• Follow up on corrective actions of potential safety problems by reviewing formal reports from supervisory and management personnel and assisting in the corrective action process when necessary.
• Audits work practices and equipment to ensure that safety-related policies and procedures are being followed by employees and enforced by management.
• Leads the company's safety committee and relates information to management for implementation.
• Ensures a proactive approach to accident prevention by training and advising management on all safety issues.
• Communicates safety-related issues through safety bulletins, memos, and meetings.
• Maintains expertise on current safety and environmental issues through attendance at relevant seminars and meetings.
• CPR and First Aid certified to provide necessary treatment for first-aid injuries.
• Investigates adequacy of conditions that may affect employee health, comfort or efficiency.
• Prepares reports including observations, analyses of contaminants and recommendations
• Participates in educational meetings to instruct employees in matters pertaining to occupational health and prevention of accidents.
• Assembles preliminary data including safety information, makes appropriate calculations, prepares a written draft of procedures and discusses with supervisor
• Makes notes and reports on special safety and environmental situations
• Is thoroughly familiar with plant safety manual, processes, and equipment
• Reviews and conducts hazards assessments of processes and job classifications prior to initial run to ensure that all personnel have adequate personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Inspects personnel to assure proper wearing of PPE.
• Conducts annual training sessions for PPE to include respirator protections and hearing conservations programs.
• Maintains Safety Data Sheet (SDS) program.
• Performs other related tasks as assigned.
• Actively participates in Company ISO audits and documentation.
• Completes all

ISO 9001

2015 and AS9100D quality training and follows related procedures.

• Follows all prescribed plant and safety rules and regulations

Job Specifications:

The EHS Specialist is accountable for controlling the safety and loss-control program to minimize the number and severity of in-plant accidents and injuries. This position is the focal point to ensure safety measures that are identified, corrected, and followed-up through any one or more of the following avenues: (1) direct observation and report by OSHA, (2) direct observation and internal report to management, and (3) direct observation and informal report to the EHS Specialist by another individual or group. This position ensures that the plant is inspected for any conditions that pose a potential safety or environmental problem. When a problem is identified, the position ensures that the supervisor accountable for the area in which the problem exists initiates corrective actions. When necessary, the EHS Specialist meets with other supervisors to help develop corrective actions and establish proprieties that will provide increased safety without compromising the functional integrity, intended purpose, or efficiency of equipment, process or procedure that posed the initial safety hazard. The EHS Specialist will maintain a system of reporting serious safety problems to help supervision detect and correct similar conditions in other areas. The EHS Specialist is an active member on the ISO team and sponsors and trains employees as relating to ISO auditing, ISO procedure development and maintenance of ISO documentation. The EHS Specialist participates with representatives of monitoring agencies (DEP, OSHA, etc.) during formal inspections of plant environmental, health and safety. If problems or discrepancies are identified, the EHS Specialist communicates the problem or discrepancy to the accountable individual or group; advises or counsels that individual or group on corrective measures; follows up to ensure that the corrective measures have been implemented; and issues a report to the monitoring agency to formally document corrective measures to the safety and/or environmental problems. The EHS Specialist also trains, counsels and advises personnel on all safety and environmental issues to establish a proactive approach to providing a safe working environment rather than a reactive approach to correcting that environment following an accident. To conduct this ongoing program, the EHS Specialist must strive to not only meet OSHA/DEP or corporate-imposed safety regulations in developing and promoting safety in all areas. The EHS Specialist also surveys current safety literature and attends relevant seminars and meetings to ensure ongoing preparedness on topics related to safety improvement and hazard prevention. This continuing education process is necessary in light of breadth of knowledge required to scrutinize a large variety of potential safety problems under varying circumstances and recommend reasonable and effective solutions to those problems.

Requirement:

Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Safety and/or Environmental Studies.

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Referral program Vision insurance

Education:

Bachelor's (Preferred)

Work Location:

In person