Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Summary

The EHS Specialist will work on site to develop and enhance a culture of consistent safe behavior according to the Company’s policies and procedures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. 

Will lead the behavior-based safety observation program. Ensure that all injuries have appropriate corrective actions, are identified and completed in order to prevent incident recurrence. Assist with and train supervisors on proper accident investigations and accident reports. Identifies potential causes for accidents and recommends changes in policies and procedures to prevent accidents and illness.

Reviews documentation with each occurrence to validate and audit as an internal control.

Help aid in development of a near miss reporting system.

Conducts weekly safety meetings in each department and serves as an advisor to onsite supervisors in recognizing and mitigating hazards and/or unsafe behaviors.

Conduct contractors, site, and equipment inspections.

Conduct daily/weekly/monthly safety audits per company and regulatory requirements.

Trains employees on safety and health requirements to ensure compliance with the Company’s policies and OSHA regulations. Assist in creating and maintaining various reports on safety performance and initiatives (trending analysis). Leads emergency response preparedness plans, drills, and subsequent corrective actions. Maintain KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) and score cards to drive continuous improvement. Ensure USDA regulatory compliance, HACCP, SSOP, SOP, GMP, and SQF program for product quality, performance and safety. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Education and/or Experience

Associates’ degree or knowledge equivalent to.

Two years’ experience in environmental and/or safety in a manufacturing facility preferred but not required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness. Looks for way to improve and promote quality and monitors own work to ensure quality is met.

Must be able to maintain confidentiality.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Ability to aid in the development and implementation of new systems.

Ability to perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) Word Processing software.

Physical Demands 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.  While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; outside weather conditions; extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick)
• Short Term Disability