EHS Leader

Overview

The Las Vegas-based Remanufacturing Team rebuilds traction motor combos for the 5 major railroads in North America. We have a 24 hour operation on Weekdays, supported by an EHS Coordinator, and this Lead/Manager position.

This position is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing an effective health & safety and loss prevention program for the Wabtec Las Vegas Remanufacturing facility. The EHS Leader outlines and implements various training programs on site about employee safety procedures and accident prevention. The role of this position is to provide leadership and coaching to the site by creating a proactive approach to safety and health in the workplace.

This position ensures that sound safety and health management systems are in place, anticipating, recognizing, and evaluating safety and health hazards, assisting with problem solving and monitoring, and continuously improving the performance of the site’s safety and health systems. This position will be visible and interacting with all employees concerning health and safety, assessing hazard conditions, and implementing practices to reduce those hazards.

The EHS Leader develops and maintains a proactive and collaborative approach at the site to create a healthy and safe working environment.

• Knowledge of safety and health regulations and applications.
• Knowledge and understanding of governmental compliance including OSHA regulations, environment compliance, industry standards, and right-to-know compliance.
• Experience identifying risk conditions and defining corrective actions programs.
• Understanding of workers compensation laws and regulations at a state level.
• Experience with facilities maintenance and building codes.
• Professional safety certifications such as ASP or CSP.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Excellent verbal and written communication/language skills required to include the ability to provide written and verbal instructions, compile, and present business reports/correspondence, and present information clearly.
• Presentation skills with the ability to speak in public effectively and provide presentations to groups of employees.
• Strong leadership, coaching skills, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
• Bachelor s degree in safety engineering science or related discipline from an accredited university or college.

• Bachelor s degree in safety engineering science or related discipline from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum 3 years of EHS experience, preferably in an industrial environment.

• Professional safety certifications such as CSP, ASP, or CHMM.

• Develop, communicate, and maintain safety and hazardous communication programs and systems. Oversee the effective operation and administration of these systems and programs to ensure a safe work environment and culture of zero accidents.
• Track safety performance.
• Lead the site’s safety initiatives.
• Develop training programs to improve the quality of incident investigations.
• Develop and maintain JSAs (job safety analysis).
• Conduct training of various safety-related programs.
• Develop systems, procedures, and processes that can be deployed to achieve an injury-free workplace.
• Assist with developing written policies and procedures for various safety programs and emergency evacuation and safety communication bulletins.
• Identify root causes of near misses, first aids, injuries, and property damage to prevent future events of the same nature.
• Coordinate and conduct periodic safety audits and inspections to identify and address any unsafe work practices and conditions.
• Review all work-related injury investigation reports and ensure that identified hazards are addressed and corrected to prevent repeats. Verify corrective measures have been taken to avoid repeat accidents.
• Oversee all training programs for supervision and employees on safety practices, fire prevention, and correct handling techniques.
• Assist operations and engineering on matters related to ergonomics and continuous improvements when new workplace projects are being developed to ensure safety and health issues are adequately addressed prior to startup.
• Ensure that hazard assessments are conducted, and communications requirements are implemented and followed.
• Collaborate with human resources on developing a safety training program to support onboarding through site awareness training for new hired employees, including contractors, before being related into the workplace.
• Coordinate industrial hygiene surveys including noise, ventilation, chemical and ergonomic. Analyze and interpret data and recommend elimination/reduction of potential hazards. Coordinate employee testing (i.e. hearing conservation).
• Design and deliver safety related communication, including signs, posters, barriers, and other materials to warn of potential and actual safety hazards and to prevent access to hazardous…