Environmental Health Safety Professional

Overview

Your previous experience in an Environmental, Health & Safety role and ability to partner with the plant management group to drive a culture of safety will make you a success in this EHS role at our Greenfield, IN plant. You will be responsible for monitoring working & environmental conditions to ensure that all activities are compliant with state and federal safety & environmental regulations.

You will be responsible for ensuring company health, safety and environmental guidelines are followed, inspecting workspace conditions to ensure they meet safety standards & provide workplace safety training. As an EHS professional, you will ensure environmental compliance of the facility with respect to all applicable air, water, and waste environmental regulations.

Other responsibilities include:

• Oversees Forklift and Crane compliance & training program. Maintains training certification, recertification and daily inspection records.
• Ensures proper training of employees on safety and health requirements and policies to ensure compliance.
• Chairs the Safety Committee and conducts monthly meetings.
• Observes plant activities and conditions. Regularly monitors for health and safety policy violations. Enforces prescribed use of safety equipment (such as PPE) and the proper application of required safety procedures.
• Ensures regulatory safety compliance & implements required improvements; recommends changes to current safety policies and procedures.
• Administers New Hire Safety Orientation to all new associates.
• Maintain OSHA logs & reporting
• Monitors the effectiveness of Emergency Response Plans (ERP) and updates the plans as needed per regulatory requirements.
• Manages and conducts quarterly safety audits of facility safety related items. Owns the accurate documentation of these inspections in the maintenance management system.
• In the event of injury inducing incidents, manages emergency medical treatment, reporting, and record keeping.
• Works in conjunction with local management to investigate incidents and spills and preparing reports; ensures proper dissemination of reports.
• Maintains tracking of incidents for management and issues summary reports.
• Works in conjunction with local management to identify potential causes for accidents and recommends changes in policies and procedures to prevent accidents.
• Acts as liaison between corporate EHS management team & local facility management.
• Maintains all safety-related documentation (meeting minutes, drill logs, certification records, training records, policies, etc.) and updates regularly in order to meet all potential audit requirements.
• Assist in gathering information in response to OSHA or other regulatory agency requests received utilizing all available resources. In the event of I/OSHA inspection events, acts as the lead participant.
• Provides and administers weekly safety briefing topics and resources for plant supervisors. Manages, tracks, and directs the Health and Safety Managements System for the facility and provides support to management.
• Develops productive personal relationships with employees at all levels to affect positive safety behavioral and cultural changes.
• Oversees the wastewater treatment plant operations & ensures compliance with treated effluent permitted parameters. Prepares and submits wastewater Discharge Monitoring Reports.
• Ensures all air pollution control equipment are operated properly. Prepares and submits Quarterly/Semi-Annual monitoring reports, and Annual Air Permit Compliance Certification to the state. Ensures paint VOC/HAP information is entered properly in the AS400 database to facilitate accurate reporting of VOC and HAP emissions.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating SPCC/SWPPP.
• Prepares and submits Tier II Reports, Hazardous Waste Reports, TRI reports, Annual Emissions Inventory Reports.
• Is familiar with Large Quantity Hazardous Waste Generator regulations, ensures hazardous waste containers are properly marked, labeled, and dated, performs weekly 90-Day hazardous waste storage area inspections, coordinates hazardous waste pick-up and disposal, ensures hazardous waste manifests are filled out properly.
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