HSE Specialist

Overview

Together with 6,900 colleagues worldwide, we are the strategic lifecycle partner for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and food industries. With seamless processes, innovative technologies, and sustainable solutions, we help our customers achieve their goals. For example, we ensure that vaccines are safely filled and that tablets can fully release their active ingredients. Your favorite chocolate and snacks are also sustainably packaged with our help.

Syntegon Packaging Technology, LLC based in New Richmond, Wisconsin is part of the Syntegon Group. We provide innovative, seamless, high-tech packaging solutions for the food industry. The location specializes in a range of packaging equipment solutions – like horizontal flow wrappers, bag closing and sealers, and robotic pick-place-machines. The city of New Richmond is known as “The City Beautiful”. It is an easy and quick commute in both directions from the Minneapolis/St.

Paul Metro area and a short distance from Eau Claire, WI.

Your duties

Position Summary: The HSE Specialist works with the Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality Department to plan, direct, and implement Syntegon’s HSE and Quality management programs and to ensure a positive, safe, healthy, and incident-free work environment. They are responsible for compliance with all safety, environmental and quality regulatory agencies. While having a general knowledge company-wide, this position will focus on compliance monitoring and reporting in all areas of the company.

This position would also respond to emergency situations when they arise and will support HSE and Quality operations and staff to foster a zero-tolerance culture and ensure compliance.

Essential Functions:

• Maintaining accurate daily, weekly, and monthly metrics to report to onsite management teams and corporate based reporting systems
• Facilitate organization and leadership development efforts to address the root cause of HSE related issues. Coach management and employees at all levels to ensure compliance with all HSE program expectations and applicable federal & state laws
• Conducting risk assessments related to jobs performed by employees and suggests risk mitigation strategies through the Job Safety Analysis process
• Conducting appropriate inspections and audits, and ensuring corrective actions are monitored and documented
• Completing and documenting all regulatory compliance activities through the HSE Calendar according to regulatory deadlines
• Responding to and investigating events including injuries and near-miss events. Drive closure of effective corrective / preventive actions, as assigned

Your profile

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum Associate's Degree Required
• Certification in Occupational Health and Safety (e.g., CSP, CIH)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar HSE role

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Science, or a related field preferred
• In-depth understanding of local, state, and federal HSE regulations
• Familiarity with risk assessment methodologies and incident investigation techniques
• Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, listening, and customer service skills with the ability to effectively communicate with and work well with others in order to manage projects, meetings
• Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence people and drive change
• Has the ability to deliver internal training effectively
• Familiar with using various office equipment, computers and various programs including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, networking and cloud-based systems.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Most work is performed in an office environment. Required to stand, walk and sit; reach with hands and arms
• In the course of daily work, associate may be outside, around commercial vehicles, powered industrial trucks and hazardous waste
• Associate may use computer, phone, copier and other…