Senior EHS Specialist; Environmental Health Safety

Senior EHS (Environment, Health and Safety)

The Senior EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) serves as an environmental, health and safety professional on-site at the Valmont facility in Brenham, TX. This position requires individual initiative on special projects to complete a wide variety of tasks that are part of Valmont's comprehensive EHS initiatives, this includes leading site level EHS teams and initiatives. This position will manage and lead implementation of Valmont's Health and Safety Playbook and Environmental and Sustainability Playbook and safety related teams for the site.

The Senior EHS Specialist must be able to align the site's EHS activities with Valmont's overall enterprise-wide EHS strategies. The incumbent is responsible for detecting sub-standard EHS performance using leading and lagging indicators and act in conjunction with appropriate site and regional leadership teams. It is critical that the Senior EHS Specialist assists others in their growth and knowledge of Environmental, Health & Safety practices.

It is expected that the Senior EHS Specialist will interact with site production employees to identify and control hazards that can result in harm.

This is an on-site professional exemption salaried position.

Starting pay range (LG39): $76,800 - $$95,900

Eligible for annual discretionary bonus

Essential Functions:

• Reports directly to the EHS Manager with matrixed reporting to the Regional Safety Manager and has no direct or indirect reports
• Develops, maintains, and manages continuous improvement efforts to facilitate EHS strategic initiatives and site-specific environmental, health and safety targets and objectives for the site to measurably reduce exposure to the site's most significant health and safety risks and environmental impacts
• Leads the deployment of environment, health and safety teams (e.g., Safety Committee, etc.) and facilitates their engagement in ownership of the activities required to maintain compliance, reduce the site's environment footprint and drive continuous improvement
• Manage plant EHS Best Practice Programs (BSP), as well as apply, evaluate, revise, and communicate site specific EHS policies; coordinate with team members and stakeholders as needed
• Manage all aspects of existing site training programs which include instruction, recordkeeping, content management, planning and development to ensure that required environmental, health and safety requirements are met in a quality fashion
• Manage the results for day-to-day adherence to company directed Safety KPIs & plan for future actions to stay above indicated targets
• Conduct collection, data entry, analysis and facilitation of Environmental Social and Governance deliverables; to include waste, permitting and sustainability programs
• Function as the site level expert in the company's Environment, Health and Safety information management system to manage data related to EHS events such as injuries, workers compensation claims, near-miss incidents and internal and external inspections, and environmental permits
• Leads the risk assessment process to recognize, evaluate, and control hazards throughout the site
• Manage injury, near miss, property damage, and hazard investigations; lead root cause analysis sessions and aggressively pursue above-the-line corrective action implementation. This includes verifying all data collected is accurate and presented in a clear, concise, professional manner
• Manage processes for selection and use of EHS equipment, own plant PPE programs and related information systems
• Leads the team-based incident investigation process to drive appropriate root cause and corrective actions
• Collects data for reporting and permit submittals for multi-media environmental regulatory requirements
• Support EHS Manager by meticulously completing assigned standardized deliverables and contributing to the strategic growth of the EHSS department by recommending modifications to routines based upon business needs
• Perform miscellaneous tasks, projects, and all other duties assigned

Other Important Details about the Role:

• Occasionally requires work beyond typical business hours to include weekends and holidays if…