EHS specialist

EHS Specialist

Job Summary

This position reports to the EHS Manager and Safety Director and is a liaison for environmental and safety activities, including developing and facilitating training and other duties assigned to support overall compliance with Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) business plans.

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• EHS & OSHA Duties
• Post EHS and OSHA policy plant-wide. Keep bulletin boards up-to-date with EHS and OSHA material.
• Support safe movement, storage, and use of hazardous waste and substances.
• Ensure employees have functional and required PPE for their job at all times.
• Provide PPE training.
• Order PPE. Keep it clean as necessary.
• Keep track of issued PPE using ADP.
• Ensure adequate provision of first aid stations and other safety/welfare facilities and support.
• Provide training for EHS and OSHA-related topics as requested.
• Ensure emergency procedures and safety signs are well-posted
• Timely incident reporting to production coordinators, supervisors, managers, and any other relevant authorities.
• Track all employees' environmental and safety training in ADP.
• Set up and facilitate medical exams, blood work, respirator fit tests, hearing exams, and safety training.
• Keep logs of annual tests: Blood lead level (BLL), hearing, and respiration.
• Perform New Hire Orientations on safety and environmental issues.
• Primary organizer and standing member of the safety committee, which investigates accidents, near-miss accidents, and workers' comp. claims.
• Weekly inspection of all facilities for tracking of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, accumulation sites, proper disposal methods, and report findings to each department.
• Take water, soil, and debris samples for testing and reporting purposes.
• Order and put together safety and environmental supplies and spill response kits.
• On-call to transport employees for drug and express care workman comp. accidents.
• Training and Employee Development:
• Prepare training rooms, fliers, rosters, and other training documents and materials, arrange for venues, send invitations via Outlook, etc., as requested.
• Work with EHS Manager & Security Director, OSHA Compliance Coordinator, and Human Resources Department. Collaborate with others as appropriate to develop an effective compliance training program, including appropriate introductory training for new employees and ongoing training for all employees and managers.
• Keep accurate training and certification records, including the credentials of each trainer. Record retention includes maintaining electronic employee training records in ADP. Maintains hard copies of training rosters.
• Has available at all times for inspections: Employee rosters (paper and on ADP), written syllabus for each training session.

Responsibilities:

• Respond to employee and supervisor EHS inquiries and direct them to appropriate sources.
• Projects related to bringing an out-of-compliance area into compliance. (Becomes a pair of hands resource when needed.)
• Maintain "teacher's frame of mind," including patience with varying styles and paces of learning, hearing, and understanding.
• Respond to intense individuals and intense situations in ways that reduce, not add to, stress and unproductive conflict.
• Maintain excellent judgment and ability to think clearly in ways that are helpful and preserve relationships.
• Enter conversations with a solutions-based attitude, offering "fixes" not "failures" in problem-solving conversations.
• Maintain a helpful frame of mind; offer useful thoughts and ideas that can advance a situation for organizational learning.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Must have a good eye for environmental health hazards and violations. Excellent judgment, ethical core, and diplomacy skills.
• Must possess the highest standard of teamwork skills and the ability to work with others who are not knowledgeable in environmental or OSHA-related issues.
• Appreciation of standards, policies, and procedures. Appreciation of very busy people who have little time and patience for EHS and OSHA issues.

Qualifications:

• Education: High School diploma or GED. Some knowledge of OSHA laws and regulations is preferred.
• Supervision: Direct supervision from the EHS Manager and Safety Director, where one must exercise influence without decision-making authority on most organizational issues.
• Working conditions: Usual office and Manufacturing working conditions with occasional exposure to shop elements such as fluctuating temperatures, noise, dust, fumes, and odors. Must be able to sit for long periods, some periods of standing, walking, lifting file boxes, speaking, listening, motor coordination skills, and good eyesight for reading documents and data entry.
• Mental demands: Maintain personal boundaries, including managing (limiting) work-socializing. Excellent self-regulation skills, including the ability to manage oneself in very intense confrontations with challenging employees and management staff. (I.E., must not let one's own emotions get in the way or exacerbate a problem.)
• Confidential data: Access to company intellectual property and highly confidential private employee files must remain confidential and cannot be reproduced. Must securely maintain documents for Freedom Munitions-owned servers and emails
• Must be able to pass a background check without felonies and a drug test.