Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia's market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits. Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

Covia is looking for a dynamic Environmental Safety & Health Coordinator who will have a positive impact on the Operations team at its Menomonie, WI location. The Environmental Safety & Health Coordinator will supervise and administer the Safety & Health and Environmental Programs in a manner consistent with Corporate and governmental standards.

The successful candidate will have the following

Key Accountabilities:

* Establish and implement plant safety programs consistent with Corporate Safety and Health policies that incorporate required regulatory training, including MSHA New Miner Training, Annual Refresher Training, Site Specific Contractor Training, First Aid, CPR & AED training.

* Monitor and perform regularly scheduled audits and inspections for plant program adherence to all policies, processes, equipment and work areas

* Participate and log incident and near hit investigations

* Manage employee physicals and audiograms

* Perform industrial hygiene sampling for both personal and work areas relating to dusty, heavy metals and noise categories to meet corporate sampling and health objectives

* Submit reports for all safety, including man-hours worked, and MSHA injury reports

* Perform various activities to maintain in compliance with state, local, federal laws and all associated permit regulations including: NPDES Water Sampling and Reporting, air quality monitoring and annual EIQ, storm water inspection planning and maintenance

* Work with reclamation plans and disturbance reporting

* Ensure training as required by environmental permits is complete

* Maintain liaison with Corporate Safety and Environmental Departments

* Assist with Safety/QC related functions to ensure quality-related functions are being completed per site-specific quality control manual

* Other Duties as assigned

The successful candidate will have the following

Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Safety, engineering, physical science, or related field preferred; or equivalent combination of education and experience required

* EHS or Safety & Health experience in Mine and Mineral Processing preferred

* Experience with nonmetallic mining air and water permits preferred

* Must have strong communication, interpersonal skills, and able to influence people at all levels

* Must have strong process skills for standardization, continuous improvement, and program management

* Proficiency in Microsoft Office:
Word, Excel, SharePoint and knowledge of ERP

Commitment to Our Culture

Our core values - Safety, Team, Customers, Growth, and Courage-guide our work every day and will help us achieve our vision:
Covia is the leading minerals solutions provider, and through the passion and commitment of our people, we enable customer success-ensuring a sustainable future for our company.

All Covia Team Members are expected to:

* Live the Life-Saving Rules

* Build high-performing work teams

* Focus on customers

* Demonstrate a growth mindset

* Do the right thing, always

At Covia, we strive for and support a diverse workforce as we firmly believe this lays the foundation of our success. Our compelling culture supports inclusion, individuality, and respect within the workplace. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to the most qualified candidate based on work-related factors and without regard to non-work-related factors including race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or military service or reserve or veteran status.

The organization offers competitive salaries, advancement opportunities, and a full range of benefits.

Benefits:

* Excellent Healthcare Benefits - medical, vision, dental

* 401K with company matching

* Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays

* Disability plans and Life / AD&D

* Employee Assistance Program

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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