Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Manager - Hampton Georgia

Company: Southern States
Location: Hampton, Georgia
Posted On: 05/17/2024

Job Summary: - - The Environmental, Health and Safety Manager -ensures 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. Minimum Qualifications:
    • 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. More...

          

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