Senior Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Overview

Join Reynolds Consumer Products
…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast‑paced, and high‑performance organization. Are looking to build a strong career? Then we have an opportunity for you! We currently have an opening for a Senior Manager - Environmental Health & Safety to join our team located at our corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, IL.

Your Role:

The Senior Manager - Environmental Health & Safety will provide leadership, counsel, and perform as an effective facilitator to influence development of a proactive approach to safety, health and environmental issues. The principal challenges include assuring that sound Environmental, Safety, and Health Management systems are in place; anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling safety and health hazards; providing expert input into problem‑solving and implementation relative to those hazards;

and monitoring and continually improving the performance of Health and Safety Management Systems.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Provide focus, definition and technical expertise for the development of a proactive EHS plan that is consistent with RCP’s corporate policies, vision, values and is in compliance with local, state, and federal EHS regulations.
• Communication and training to plant management that will insure all levels of plant personnel understand their roles and functions for identifying and resolving of EHS issues, complying with EHS regulations and WWHP.
• Maintaining awareness of and proactively influencing emerging and existing EHS laws/regulation, which may impact plant operation.
• Negotiating environmental permits that reflect cost effective process design, reasonable operating constraints, and are consistent with corporate environmental policy and regulatory requirements.
• Provide direction and technical expertise to the engineering organizations or contractors in implementing EHS projects, while adhering to RPC safety expectation.
• Establishing and maintain communications, reporting, assessments, training programs, and guidance necessary to ensure that the department managers are fully informed about all Health policies and applicable laws and regulations in a timely fashion.
• Maintaining plant compliance with all EPA reporting regulations.
• Maintain plant SPCC plan and assures compliance as appropriate.
• Maintain compliance regarding hazardous material by conducting weekly inspections, preparing Hazardous Waste Disposal and Waste Water Reports, advising plant personnel on hazardous waste handling and obtaining samples and analysis of possible hazardous material.
• Coordinate necessary environmental, health and safety training to support and enhance the organization’s safety culture while ensuring the plant is in compliance with local, state, federal and Reynold’s Safety requirements.
• Build and maintain strong communication channels to all levels of operating management and functional departments, as well as the production workforce by conferring with team members on the safe use of equipment, fire protection, and the overall safety program and by providing expert guidance and tactical hands on assistance in all Environmental, Health, and Safety goals and initiatives.
• Establish and maintain communications, reporting, assessments, training programs, and guidance necessary to ensure that the location managers are fully informed about all noncompliance and potential noncompliance issues relative to EHS policies and applicable laws and regulations in a timely fashion.
• Maintaining awareness of and proactively influencing emerging and existing EHS laws/regulation, which may impact, plant operation.
• Measures safety performance through computing injury/frequency rates, making reports, and keeping records of accidents and prevention measures.
• Lead and build a behavioral based, interdependent culture where the entire organization is concerned not only for their personal safety, but the safety of all employees.

You will love it here if…

• You put safety first, always.
• You listen,…