Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Manager
Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Manager
Southern States LLC
Hampton, GA
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Job Summary:
The Environmental, Health and Safety Managerensures compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations, and keeps abreast of any changes to laws and regulations that impact the organization. The EH&S Manager demonstrates the ability to influence change through effective communication and collaboration, providing clear and consistent messages and programs supporting a culture of health, safety, and environmental awareness.
Essential Responsibilities:
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The Environmental, Health and Safety Managerensures compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations, and keeps abreast of any changes to laws and regulations that impact the organization. The EH&S Manager demonstrates the ability to influence change through effective communication and collaboration, providing clear and consistent messages and programs supporting a culture of health, safety, and environmental awareness.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Develop relationships with leadership and employees to ensure EH&S policies and procedures are being applied and followed.
- Working with site management, shares best practices across the organization.
- Identify areas of improvement, lead development of improvement initiatives, and establish EH&S action plans to achieve set objectives and targets.
- Serves as a subject matter expert on environmental, health, safety and sustainability issues.
- Compile and publish reports as required.
- Advise and support site management/operational staff on all EH&S activities, communicating initiatives, and establishing/updating and disseminating documentation relating to the EH&S.
- Champion initiatives, focusing on preventive actions, that identify and communicate facility risk exposure, prioritizing risk reduction needs and ensuring closure of recommendations to reduce risk
- Leads investigation of safety related accidents or incidents (including near misses) to identify root cause(s) and implementation of effective corrective/preventive actions.
- Monitor and ensure compliance to local, state, and federal EH&S regulations.
- Maintain all required environmental, safety and health permits.
- Manages development delivery of training programs for regulatory mandated requirements as well as site specific EH&S training.
- Audits the effectiveness, quality, and presenter delivery of all required safety training.
- Ensure routine audits are conducted of facilities and processes to assess and identify safety, health, and environmental risks.
- Ensure regular risk assessments are conducted on all processes and equipment and recommend appropriate controls when hazards or potential hazards are identified.
- Compile and publish monthly, quarterly and annual reports on site health and safety performance, EH&S issues, regulatory compliance and personnel training
- Oversees handling, storage, and shipment of hazardous wastes, maintaining compliance with all local/state/federal regulations
- Partners with HR on all workers comp issues.
- Manages all contractor management systems (e.g., ISNetworld, Avetta, etc.) and assists with completion of customer qualification forms
- Partners with third party contractors to maintain the manufacturing wastewater treatment plant
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering or other relevant technical discipline.
- 3+ years proven experience or supplemental education, with a minimum of 1 year of EHS management experience
- Must be able to lead and influence across all levels and departments in order to drive focus and impact results.
- Must think and act strategically and view the business from a general management standpoint
- Must be very customer focused and have strong interpersonal and communications skills.
- EHS technical work in a manufacturing operations environment.
- Familiarity with all aspects of EHS management, including environmental sustainability and corporate governance.
- Strategic thinking skills; must be able to think long-term and be able to prioritize
- Knowledge of applicable ISO and OHSAS standards
- ASP, CSP, CIH, REM, or other nationally recognized certification would be preferred but not required
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
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Job function
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