EHS Manager

Company Overview Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

How You’ll Perform the Role

• Advance initiatives which promote and sustain the safety, health, security, and welfare of all personnel.
• Develop, deploy, and monitor all EHS programs, procedures, policies, and standards in a manner that ensures compliance to Federal, State, Local, Customer, and align with Corporate EHS requirements.
• Provide focus, direction, leadership, and technical expertise to the various tactical teams (Plant Safety Lead Teams;
  High Risk Teams - Ergonomic, Electrical Protection, Fall Protection, Mobile Equipment, Guarding; Storm/Waste Water Pollution Prevention, SPCC, Behavioral-Based Safety Training Team.)
• Implement and administer an internal EHS hazard/risk assessment and compliance auditing process designed to validate adherence to ‘best known’ standards and practices.
• Implement and administer a root cause analysis procedure/process design to reveal and capture intellectual wisdom from all near miss and/or failure occurrences.
• Communicate post incident / near miss findings (written/verbal: Incident Flash; Detailed Incident Investigation; and phone / net conferences).
• Develop, implement, and institutionalize a process to identify and eliminate high risk occurrences through review of historical incident data; leading/warning indicators; plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity observations; and highly specified JSA’s and SWI’s.
• Stimulate and cultivate “a zero-incident mentality” throughout the facility.
• Provide applicable management/agency notification, oversight, interface, and coaching.
• Proactively work with the HR Manager in the administration of Workers Compensation case management.
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all environmental reports (Air Emission Summary, TRI, Tier II, SWPPP, deviation reports, and waste disposal both hazardous and non-hazardous, etc).
• Develop, report, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of all related leading and lagging performance and success measures.
• Assess and evaluate plant EHS connections and make recommendations to the Plant Manager regarding strategies to remedy training, skills, or performance deficiencies.

What We Need From You

• BS Degree in Occupational Safety and Health, Mechanical/Chemical Engineering, Business/Organizational Management or related field preferred.
• Related post-education training, certifications such as CIH, CSP, CPEA, or CHMM preferred.
• 5+ years of experience implementing EHS standards, training and legal compliance in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Self-motivated, organization skills, and ability to multi-task.
• Demonstrated experience in leading cultural change across a facility; experienced in leveraging multiple approaches to helping people adopt and implement sustained change in a manufacturing environment.
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