Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Environmental Health and Safety Specialist Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

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Position Summary:
The Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Specialist is responsible for ensuring workplace safety and environmental compliance. They develop, implement, and monitor health and safety programs that protect employees, the public, and the environment. Their role requires a thorough understanding of regulations, risk management, and emergency response.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct risk assessments to identify potential hazards and develop strategies to mitigate them.
• Work with safety team to develop and update safety policies and procedures to ensure safe working environment.
• Monitor and audit workplace practices to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.
• Develop and conduct training programs to educate team on safety practices, emergency procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct thorough investigations of accidents and incidents to determine root causes and work with HR to recommend corrective actions.
• Ensure the proper handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials to prevent contamination and exposure to hazards.
• Work with facilities to coordinate emergency response efforts, including drills and real-time incident management.
• Maintain accurate documentation and maintenance of safety records including Material Safety Data (MDS) sheets.
• Act as primary point of contact with regulatory agencies, ensuring that all safety and environmental requirements are met.
• Foster a culture of safety within the organization, encouraging proactive identification and resolution of safety issues.
• Maintains records of discharge of or employee exposure to hazardous waste and/or pollutants, as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• This position requires an bachelor’s degree in environmental safety, occupational safety and health, other related field, or equivalent degree plus experience.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience working within chemical manufacturing.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and 5S preferred.
• Proficient in technology and equipment used in environmental inspections.

Required Skills:

• Extensive knowledge of environmental regulations and policies.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strategy
• Communication Proficiency
• Customer/client focus
• Teamwork Orientation
• Collaboration
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Project and Time Management
• Strong Organizational and Analytical Skills
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Ethical Conduct

Physical/Mental 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.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position requires a high degree of concentration to manage frequent interruptions while meeting strict deadlines. This position requires the ability to perform duties using both typical office equipment such as computers, cell phones, and printers as we; as the ability to communicate and perform tasks in an office environment. Must be able to perform physical and mental tasks associated with a manufacturing environment.

Other Duties:
Please not this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Compensation:

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