EHS Manager

• Relocation Assistance Provided*
• The EHS Manager is accountable for development and execution of programs that provide our employees with a safe workplace and minimizes impact to our environment;
• influences people to achieve a strong and engaged safety culture; leads a process that assures compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations;

implements a sustainable environmental, health and safety management system and drives EHS performance improvement.

Location : This position is located at our Williamson, NY plant.

What you will do :

• Culture & Change Champion; inspire team members to appreciate and be accountable for our safety culture
• Develop environmental, safety and industrial hygiene plans, policies, and procedures that result in compliance with local, State, and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules and regulations and conform with Company policies;

Maintains a system for reporting, monitoring, and correcting serious safety problems

Serves as primary liaison between applicable regulatory and government agencies ((NYSDEC & NYSDOH); Oversees health & safety, environmental, audits of facilities and recommends corrective measures;

Ensures all significant near misses, injuries, and safety events are investigated and abatement measures implemented

• Administer Workers Compensation program and compiles and submits accident reports required by regulatory agencies
• Implements training programs that lead to increased proficiency in safe practices, promote safety consciousness, assures environmental compliance and advance continuous improvement
• Drive implementation of strategic EHS initiatives; identifies elements of change required to support the EHS strategy;

encourages management team to balance short-term demands with long term benefits of strategic EHS programs

Establish a process that lead to reduce incident rates and environmental impacts while reducing company costs (e.g., amount of workers compensation, etc.

establishes order of priority for EHS initiatives and drives their implementation in cooperation of department managers, EHS specialists, safety teams, and other personnel

• Establishes and measure specific safety and health goals and objectives for the company and departments ensuring the targets are consistent with corporate strategies and objectives
• Analyzes safety processes throughout facility; seek to identify opportunities for improvement; identify incident root cause;

recommend changes to work flow, equipment or other processes; and implement support systems / processes (I.e. safety rewards and recognitions, safety communications, etc.

to achieve safety objectives

Communicate and celebrate successes and foster company-wide commitment to safety and continuous environmental improvement;

Educate EHS best practices, prevention and how to work around / with hazardous substances

• Formulates, maintains and executes Keurig Dr Pepper emergency plans and responds to safety and employee emergencies. Complies with Keurig Dr Pepper policies and procedures.
• Manage an aerobic wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) with a NYSDEC SPDES permit to discharge directly to stream.
• Manage hazardous chemical storage (Tier II), use, and release to the environment (TRI).
• Manage petroleum bulk storage and a SPCC plan.
• Manage the generation, transportation, and land application of WWTP sludge.
• Manage the storage and disposal of RCRA hazardous waste
8 days ago