EHS Specialist

Job Description Who will you be working with?

As an Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist you will work in a diverse and fast paced manufacturing environment, partnering with business leaders to ensure safe and compliant operations at our Jackson Tennessee location of Young Touchstone.

As a member of the Heat Transfer & Energy Solutions group of Wabtec, you will be responsible for the safe operation of manufacturing operations at our Jackson Tennessee Young Touchstone location. You will provide expert EHS guidance and leadership across all levels of the site and ensure alignment with corporate cultural and policy expectations. This role will report to the local business unit EHS Leader and will require daily interaction with both management and hourly production personnel.

• Bachelor's degree in environment health and safety or related discipline from an accredited university or college, or past relevant EHS experience in a plant safety role in lieu of bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a plant safety role.
• Knowledge, understanding, and experience working with governmental compliance including OSHA regulations, environment compliance, industry standards and right to know compliance.
• Experience with incident investigations, case management, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Demonstrated application of leading indicator implementation, cultural improvements, employee engagement activities, and sustainability projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication/language skills required to include the ability to provide written and verbal instructions, compile, and present business reports/correspondence, and present information clearly.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and other critical business software

• Provide EHS technical support for site operations management on various EHS initiatives and projects at each facility.
• Ensure compliance with all environmental permitting and reporting requirements for each facility.
• Ensure compliance with all OSHA record keeping requirements for each facility.
• Initiate and influence integration of EHS policies and practices.
• Facilitate and coordinate with the location EHS Leader on the implementation of the Wabtec Management System and other procedures to ensure regulatory and business level compliance while driving ownership with the site operations team(s).
• Facilitate and develop training for factory personnel on Wabtec and Regulatory required training material.
• Develop an internal audit or inspection program related to EHS to ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements as well as Wabtec internal requirements.
• Reviews all work-related injury investigation reports and ensures that identified, addressed, and corrected any hazard conditions. Verifies corrective measures have been taken to avoid any repeated accidents.
• Assists operations and engineering on matters related to ergonomics and continuous improvements when new workplace projects are being developed to ensure any safety and health issues are adequately addressed prior to the startup of the process. You will work with the EHS Leader to:
  • Oversee the administration of workers compensation program at your site, including working with the insurance carrier to reduce employee lost time and cost control of workers compensation costs.
  • Develop, review, and maintain responsibility for security programs at the Jackson location.
• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset to identify opportunities to improve overall EHS performance at the Jackson location as well continuously identifying risk reduction opportunities.
• Perform periodic evaluations to ensure compliance with environmental permits, plans, policies and/or other regulatory requirements.

• Shop Floor Presence Required
• Facilities can produce warm/hot conditions
• PPE
  
  Required:
  
  Safety glasses, steel toed shoes, hearing protection and hard hats. Gloves are required by job/task.

You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade, for which adequate training will be…