Environmental Health & Safety Manager - Innovation Labs Beaverton

Environmental Health & Safety Manager – Innovation Labs, Beaverton, OR.

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NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE, Inc. is transforming manufacturing with world‑class standards that ensure our products are made responsibly and sustainably. Everything we do puts workers at the center. We are respecting the environment and using cutting‑edge technologies to create better, more personalized products for our customers.

Many of the challenges we seek to address are complex and beyond the scope of one brand or company. We need to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to think creatively, and pool our skills in order to address risks and improve outcomes for our manufacturing factories, workers, and their communities.

Under the direction of the EHS Direction Innovation directs the development, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive environment, health and safety management system for Nike’s fast paced and dynamic innovation labs (maker spaces). Innovation redefines how, when and where our product is made and what our product is made from. In innovation labs we identify, develop and test new designs to create game‑changing product for our athletes*.

This is an individual contributor position, responsible for supporting all EHS facets of innovation including standards development, injury/incident management, electrical safety, chemistry, and machine safety in multiple locations on the Beaverton campus as well as providing advisory support to other innovation spaces globally.

We’re looking for a candidate who has proven teamwork skills with demonstrated abilities to both work collaboratively and to influence those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists. You will have ability to adapt to change and deal with ambiguity. The candidate will have an enterprise mindset, strong decision making ability and excellent problem solving skills, attention to details, and be able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast paced, matrixed organization.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a history of being an effective and agile business partner, have experience in R&D environments involving both innovative chemistries as well as equipment, have practical manufacturing experience and be well versed in regulatory requirements.

• Develop, implement, sustain and improve comprehensive EHS management system and programs in support of the Nike EHS Policy and Global Standards.
• Provide strategic oversight as well day to day EHS support to the various innovation labs, in collaboration with key business partners, continuously drive improvement in health and safety measures, instilling world class safety culture.
• Develop programs and standards to ensure compliance with regulations (federal, state and local) consensus standards, and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with innovation labs stakeholders on conducting risk assessment for new equipment, materials and other product innovation, design and development projects.
• Participate in incident investigations, perform root cause analysis for all injuries and “near misses,” train managers to conduct thorough investigations and root cause analysis.
• Provides EHS leadership and expertise on industry best practices for new innovation projects.
• Develop program and system for coordinating and conducting EHS training for all employees, contractors and site visitors; ensures proper training documentation and maintains training record files as indicated by Nike’s policy and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinates/conducts health and industrial hygiene monitoring and inspection activities.

This position is part of a larger global…