EHS Specialist

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Bartow FLtime type:
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R Hwy 17 South Bartow Florida
*** Why Valmont
***** We’re Here to Move the World Forward.
** Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

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** A Brief Summary of This Position
** This position serves as Valmont’s EHS Specialist enabling overall company strategy in driving continuous improvement with EHS best practices across the organization. This position requires individual initiative on special projects to complete a wide variety of tasks that are part of Valmont’s comprehensive EHS initiatives. This includes leading site level EHS teams and initiatives. The position will lead implementation of Valmont’s EHS Playbook for the site.  

The EHS Specialist must be able to align the site’s EHS activities with Valmont’s overall enterprise wide EHS strategies. The incumbent is responsible for detecting sub-standard EHS performance using leading and lagging indicators and act in conjunction with appropriate site and regional leadership teams. It is critical that the EHS Specialist assists others in their growth and knowledge in Environmental, Health & Safety practices.

It is expected that the EHS Specialist interacts with site production employees to identify and control hazards that can result in harm.
** Essential Functions
*** Reports directly to the Plant Manager, or functional leader with matrixed reporting to the Regional Safety Manager and has no direct or indirect reports.
* Support development, maintenance, and continuous improvement efforts to facilitate EHS strategic initiatives.
* Partners with regional and site management to ensure consistent deployment of standards, campaigns and initiatives across the organization.
* Develops and owns the site-specific annual EHS goals to measurably reduce risks and impacts.
* Function as the site level expert in the company’s Environment, Health and Safety information management system to manage data related to EHS events such as injuries, workers compensation claims, near miss incidents and internal and external inspections, and environmental permits.
* Leads the risk assessment process to recognize, evaluate, and control hazards throughout the site.
* Leads the deployment of environment, health and safety teams (e.g., Safety Committee, etc.) and facilitates their engagement in ownership of the activities required to maintain compliance, reduce the site’s environment footprint and drive continuous improvement.
* Leads the team-based incident investigation process to drive appropriate root cause and corrective actions.
* Collects data for reporting and permit submittals for multi-media environmental regulatory requirements.
** Other Important Details about the Role
*** Serves as a liaison between regional and site management, risk management and human resources on applicable topics.
* Develops and supports implementation of emergency management and business continuity programs.
* Supports serious post incident reviews at their site, communication of incidents that result or have the potential to result in serious injury; partners with Regional EHS Directors/Managers and site representatives 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.
* Formulates and implements actions on various EHS topics, as necessary, and shares updates with leadership.
* Ensure training programs are developed and implemented to…