EHS Professional

At Materion, everyone is included, respected and offered opportunity to grow. Join us! The EHS Professional assists in the development and deployment of best-in-class Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) programs, systems and processes. Works with facility leadership and EHS Manager in complying with federal, state and local EHS regulations. Uses the EHS strategic plan as a template for continuous improvement of EHS metrics.

Helps drive effective, sustainable implementation of corporate and local initiatives. Communicates with regulatory authorities with the assistance of EHS Manager. Maintains an effective communication process with the locations operational and maintenance organizations. Provides training to facility employees and acts as a technical EHS resource for site personnel.

You will have an opportunity to:

• Assist facility leadership with the execution of EHS programs, training and regulations, policies and procedures.
• Provide support to site strategic and tactical EHS teams.
• Typically, responsible for providing guidance on compliance with OSHA, EPA, state and local regulatory requirements.
• Assist the facility in complying with Industrial hygiene, hazardous waste, wastewater, and ISO 14001.
• Understand compliance requirements for environmental applications.
• Assist in the preparation of environmental reports including SARA 312 and SARA 313.
• Assist the facility in complying with Clean Water Act and hazardous and solid waste regulations.
• May complete TRI, NPDES discharge reports to the EPA.
• Conduct audits to ensure EPA, state and local environmental compliance.
• Participate in incident investigations, develop corrective actions and enter information into Materion Safety.
• Assist the facilities’ implementation of Process Safety Management and ISO 14000 sustainability efforts.

• BS in an EHS field and 3-5 years of experience or equivalent.
• Experience designing and implementing compliance strategies with OSHA and EPA regulations; relevant EPA regulations include water permitting, hazardous waste management, compliance assurance and auditing, environmental reporting for water, process safety management, ventilation design, hazardous and solid waste.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience designing and implementing compliance strategies with EPA regulations preferred.
• Participation and monitoring of compliance with local, state and federal programs.
• Make recommendations to improve the work environment based on interpretations and professional practices.
• Use complicated environmental and industrial hygiene equipment.
• Proficient in data verification, correlation and preparation of EHS reports; perform calculations, data entry, data analysis, field monitoring and report writing.
• Act as a technical advisor for small projects or less complicated business units.
• Develop and conduct EHS training.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferred: management systems (ISO 45000/14001) experience.

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or a Person admitted into the U.S. as an asylee or refugee, or a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology, or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.

Materion Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected…