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Regional Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety
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What they do
An Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager is responsible for managing a coordinated and systematic approach to managing the environmental impact of an organization on the surrounding area. Will ensure that the organization has a systematic approach to complying with environmental regulations, such as managing waste or air emissions. Other responsibilities may include finding ways to reduce the organization's carbon footprint.
$101,388 / year median in Nebraska
+12% projected growth
Job Description
A Brief Summary of This Position:
This position serves as Valmont's Regional Manager, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), with expanded oversight across a defined geographic region with multiple sites or across multiple businesses. This role leads the deployment of EHS strategies and systems across multiple sites or businesses, ensuring consistency and alignment with corporate objectives. The Regional Manager collaborates with senior leaders and site teams to drive performance, manage risk, and support regulatory compliance. This position plays a more strategic role in shaping EHS culture, while continuing to support incident response, system improvements, and integration of EHS into business operations.Essential Functions:
- Oversees a defined geographic region with multiple sites or across multiple businesses.
- Reports to the EHS Director; more likely to have direct reports.
- Responsible for regional implementation of EHS strategy across multiple sites or multiple businesses.
- Leads cross-site/ cross-business initiatives and ensures alignment with corporate standards.
- Drives continuous improvement across the region.; multiple sites or multiple businesses.
- Leads multi-site / multi business risk assessments and hazard mitigation.
- Acts as a liaison between corporate and site-level teams.
- Provides strategic input into EHS program development.
- Support the development and maintenance of Global EHS Standards related to occupational safety, fire protection, environmental and sustainability compliance; examples include Accountability, Electrical Safety, Hazard Communication, Hot Work, Contractors, Fall Protection, Due Diligence, Site Closure, etc.
- Support the implementation, update, and maintenance of Valmont's EHS Information Management System (Intelex) and LMS training platforms; Integrates business strategy into automated and semi-automated processes
- Develops and maintains risk assessment tools to identify and minimize exposure to safety hazards
- Effective oral/written communication skills to clearly and concisely present information to key stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize a large number of projects and track projects through completion
- Ability to effectively interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships
- Thorough knowledge of OSHA, EPA and Fire Prevention technologies (or similar region/country regulations)
- Recognize and be able to integrate Lean and Continuous Improvement (CI) concepts into EHS and vice-versa
- This role requires up to 50% travel (internationally/domestically), including overnight stays Other Important Details about the
Role:
- Serves as a liaison between Global EHS and Risk Management and Human Resources on applicable topics
- Develops and support implementation of emergency management and business continuity programs
- Leads the serious post incident review, communication of incidents that result or have the potential to result in serious injury; partners with Regional EHS Directors/Managers to identify root causes and preventive actions are effectively deployed across the organization
- Provides training/mentoring to regional/site representatives to strengthen EHS compliance and best practices
- Ensures the preparation of material evidence for hearings, lawsuits, and insurance investigations
- Formulates and implements actions on various EHS topics, as necessary, and shares updates with senior leadership
- Provide training on in-house compliance assurance program (CAP) and ensures implementation across the organization
- Ensure training programs are developed and implement to ensure regulatory compliance and incident best practices
- Stay current with EHS/property conservation regulations and standards
- Demonstrates a commitment to the
Valmont Core Values Required Qualifications of Every Candidate:
- Preferred Bachelor's with 7+ years relevant work experience in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, Engineering, Sustainability or related discipline or Associate's Degree with 9+ years of relevant experience or 11+ years of relevant years of experience of increasing responsibility with an emphasis on implementation and maintenance of environmental, health and safety programs, fire prevention, sustainability and risk management • Track record of making effective decisions, even when dealing with limited or ambiguous information • Ability to lead and support corporate, division, business unit and site teams responsible for managing EHS risks • Prior proven experience utilizing an enterprise-wide safety information system/database
Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:
- Previous experience with international locations and responsibilities or completed successful assignments
- Experience with OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) or
ISO 45001, 14001
desired- Prior experience implementing and/or maintaining an enterprise-wide database system
- Professional certifications preferred such as
CSP, ASP, CHMM, CIH
(or similar certification)- Experience in a similar heavy manufacturing industry