EHS Manager

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PURIS operates across North America as the largest independent trenchless rehabilitation provider with 1,200+ employees dedicated to building lasting infrastructure with smart, sustainable resource management. The PURIS Family of Companies provides trenchless renewal solutions in the water, wastewater, and stormwater markets. Our environmentally friendly solutions work within the existing infrastructure to save time, minimize environmental impact, and cause fewer community disruptions.

With an unrivaled toolbox of technologies, PURIS has the RIGHT solution for each project.

The EHS Manager facilitates the integration of new safety processes, directs compliance with PURIS’s standard operating procedures/policies, assists in developing and administering programs and training in compliance with OSHA/DOT, Federal and State regulations and standards. Counsel and support operations management, customer specific safe operating requirements and employees in activities to achieve a safe and healthful working environment, and sponsor employee-based activities that will reinforce a positive highly efficient/productive safe work culture.

Routinely benchmark best-practices to achieve best-in-class top-tier safety performance outcomes. Act as a strategic partner with the Business Unit General Manager(s) – to drive continuous safety performance tactical improvement plans/activities.

• Provide or contract required certified training (First Aid/CPR/AED, forklift operations, aerial equipment, respirator fit and use, lock out tag out, confined space entry, fire extinguisher use, hearing protection, hot work permits) and periodic safety systems related training as deemed necessary.
• Facilitate the implementation of new hire and return-to-work medical evaluation protocol and maintain timely communication with 3rd party occupational physician clinic medical advisors.
• Oversee industrial hygiene exposure monitoring protocol to eliminate adverse employee exposures and reinforce PURIS’s monitoring plan for future-state litigation avoidance.
• Coordinate with V.P. of Operations and CLO in claims settlement agreements and the use of outside counsel/insurance adjuster communications/surveillance on a case-by-case basis.
• Manage online system for procuring Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and update inventory routinely to maintain an approved product list and monitor the potential health effects/regulatory impact of all products.
• Evaluate technical and scientific publications concerned with health and safety and participate in activities of related professional organizations to update knowledge of program developments.
• Oversee the integration of an internet-based safety data system and train management on the application of the incident reporting process as required to maximize the full operational support/utilization of the system.
• Facilitate gap analysis survey process and conduct small group feedback sessions on addressing key issues.
• Initiate/champion policies, plans, and programs as necessary in the area of EHS management and EHS culture throughout the business unit.
• Act as a liaison in all regulatory and legal matters relating to environmental health and safety.
• Manage emergency response plan; may provide technical expertise and/or assist other responding agencies within the community.
• Supervise and advise Safety & Health quarterly employee communication forums; i.e. Safety refresher training complying with industry best-practices/OSHA regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all local, state, and federal DOT/OSHA regulatory standards.
• Conduct/support a formal safety audit process to determine safety program gaps and corrective-action initiatives required for future-state sustainable performance improvement/effectiveness (ISO 45001, OSHA VPP, or ANSI) Standards to set a foundation for evaluating continuous…