Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Manager
Southern States, LLC
- Hampton, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.