Environmental Health and Safety Manager

General Summary

The Environmental Health and Safety Manager serves as the safety expert for DeZURIK's Gastonia, North Carolina site developing and directing the implementation of programs necessary to develop a proactive safety culture. This role also helps manage a comprehensive safety system that controls cost and risk and focuses on cultural improvements with leading and lagging indicators as the driving metric. This role has a behavior-based safety focus on complete trust and cooperation between the leaders and team members. The Environmental Health and Safety Manager is an environmental steward for the site ensuring all environmental compliance is within Federal, State, County, and City regulatory requirements.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Analyze and identify common safety / health hazards inherent in the organization's operations, and establish processes and procedures for protection from those hazards.
• Identify applicable regulatory requirements and establish procedures for their implementation.
• Act as environmental liaison with third-party contractors to ensure county, state, and federal requirements. Ensure compliance and facilitate decreasing environmental footprint.
• Audit safety programs for compliance with company standards, government regulations, and unique local conditions.
• Partner with the Director of EHS to monitor periodic performance reports for trends and conditions, and alert appropriate management to correct problem areas.
• Partner with third-party vendors to ensure all environmental compliance.
• Lead investigation of major accidents / incidents / hazards / near misses, recommend future preventive measures, and ensure implementation through problem-solving techniques.
• Responsible for OSHA logs, First Reports of Injury, and partner with HR on Workers' Compensation claims at corporate location.
• Review new products, equipment, and processes for potential hazards and recommend modifications before introduction.
• Work with team members and supervisors to identify and correct potential safety and health hazards.
• Develop safe standard work practices with line personnel and monitor conformance through safety and housekeeping inspections.
• Provide feedback to support plant engineering to assist with implementing engineering controls to minimize safety and occupational health hazards.
• Conduct ergonomics studies to ensure the proper tooling and layout of the process.
• Serve as Emergency Response Coordinator, managing emergency procedures and organizing emergency teams during an event.
• Partner with the Operations Team for utilization of the safety LMS system. Communicate trends, gaps, and planned annual training requirements.
• Ensure thorough investigation and accountability that the Safety Accountability Policy is upheld after completed root cause analysis.

Education and Experience

Required :

Preferred :

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Physical Demands

Working Conditions

Normal manufacturing and office environment. When working occasionally in some shop areas, personal protection equipment (PPE) will be recommended and / or required (safety shoes, safety glasses w / side shields, hearing protection, face shield, gloves, apron and boots). Must have the ability to support extended business hours to meet customer business needs.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Quality

Quality encompasses all aspects of DeZURIK, Inc.'s business, and every employee shares the responsibility to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformity relating to product, process and the quality system. All employees have an obligation to identify and record any such nonconformity, and, through designated channels, initiate and recommend solutions.

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