Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Pay: $70.00 - $74.50 per hour

Job description:

This is a 6 Month position with a possible temp to hire.

Job Opportunity

The Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager will lead the site environmental, health and safety initiatives. They will assist site leadership with establishing site-specific policies and standards to ensure compliance with regulatory and Global EH&S requirements, prevent injuries & illnesses, reduce workers' compensation costs, and help create a strong EH&S culture.

Experience with MS Suite of products, e.g., Excel, Access, Minitab, PowerPoint & Visio required.

What You Will Do

• Identifying environmental, health & safety risks and hazards in the workplace and implementing prevention programs
• Advising site leaders and employees on how to minimize risks and hazards in the workplace and improve environmental, health & safety performance
• Assisting the site in complying with applicable environmental, health & safety requirements
• Training site employees on environmental, health & safety requirements and the EH&S management system
• Assisting sites with implementing EH&S programs, policies & standards and EH&S management system
• Training line managers to recognize hazards and risks and leading the line organization in identifying and controlling hazards and risks
• Conducting environmental, health & safety inspections in the workplace
• Managing emergency procedures (such as fire alarm drills)
• Offering general environmental, health & safety advice to all employees
• Reporting injuries, illnesses and near misses to the corporate environmental, health & safety department and business leaders
• Establishing site specific EH&S reports and communicating performance with the site leadership
• Maintaining accurate EH&S records applicable for the site, e.g. OSHA injury & illness logs, environmental permits and testing, training documentation, equipment inspection records, etc.
• Tracking environmental, health & safety inspection and audit findings to closure
• Assisting the plant manager with establishing and maintaining a site environmental, health & safety council
• Sharing environmental, health & safety lessons learned and encourage a learning culture on environmental, health & safety.
• Partnering closely with all site leaders to create, maintain and improve our safety environment.

Who You Are

• BS Safety Engineering, Safety Sciences, Engineering or similar
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) preferred
• 7-10 years of environmental, health & safety experience in a global manufacturing organization
• Bilingual in Spanish a must. Must be able to speak, write and read in English and Spanish.
• Experience implementing EH&S Management Systems, e.g. ISO 14001, ANSI Z-10, or ISO 45001
• Significant knowledge of U.S. Environmental, Safety & Health laws (OSHA & EPA) required
• Experience using web-based systems to support EH&S, e.g. Process Map, Enablon, Gen- Suite, or similar
• Strong communication, presentation, training and facilitation, project management skills are essential
• Proficiency in LEAN and Continuous Improvement manufacturing principles
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Process safety management experience desired
• Exemplary customer service skills and attention to detail
• Advanced skills using the Microsoft suite, including Excel, PowerPoint and Access databases
• Strong analytical skills to analyze safety & health data

Additional Information

• Standard hours 7am to 5pm
• 6 Months possible hire
• Kissimmee Site Travel between both Kissimmee Sites
• On Site - On the floor and in the office
• Biggest Challenge - Facing huge transformation journey to improve the safety culture - Leadership development reliant error of improvement.
• Looking for someone who wants to work as a Team
• Must haves - Experience in manufacturing environment, bilingual is a plus, person who projects in safety culture.
• Education - Bachelor's Degree
• For Resumes - Looking for Manufacturing Experience - provide results of safety improvement, person who has stability working with safety takes time - been with a company for 5/10 years
• The role - challenge driven opportunity to build another step to raise the bar to give the footprint and improve professional vision.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Manufacturing Environment: 5 years (Required)
• Environmental Health and Safety (EHS): 7 years (Required)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) (Preferred)
• Certified Industrial Hygienist (Preferred)

Work Location: In person