EHS Manager - Blue Point

Overview

Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager – Blue Point Complex, reporting directly to the General Manager. Plays an important role in the site leadership by advancing a culture of EHS excellence where everyone is engaged, empowered and innovative in cultivating a workplace that promotes the safety and health of employees, contractors, customers, the local community, and the environment.

As a departmental manager, major areas of responsibility include executing strategies, managing systems, developing people and delivering effective communications to ensure the site operates within applicable laws and regulations in a safe, environmentally responsible manner. Key areas include environmental, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, process safety, emergency response, security, and quality/lab services. This position is also the liaison with multiple stakeholders within and outside the organization, in both the public and private sector.

• Create a strategic vision for EHS performance and cultural excellence. Analyze EHS data, assumptions, resources, constraints, and the EHS culture to develop and evolve a long-range course of actions to achieve that vision. Define success by determining outcomes that are critical for success.
• Ensure everyone at site shares the vision, and foster employee commitment and engagement in the vision.
• Measure performance by identifying key measures of progress, understanding limits and boundaries of data, and creating mileposts and symbols to support and encourage improvement. Develop efficient processes for collecting and verifying metrics. Implement benchmarking processes to drive continuous EHS innovation and improvement.
• Establish systems and leverage technology to identify, assess, manage, and mitigate EHS risks and ensure regulatory compliance with applicable Federal, State, local regulations, and company policies. Improve EHS processes to ensure efficient and reliable execution.
• Implement audit processes that assess risk management and compliance assurance practices and systems.
• Manage EHS Knowledge by determining what skills, knowledge, and behaviors are needed for EHS success. Facilitate internal knowledge and skill sharing and utilize technology to ensure efficient and effective knowledge development. Ensure EHS training programs deliver increased engagement, better decision-making, and growth opportunities.
• Manage change by utilizing communication tools to influence impacted stakeholders (internal or external) on the benefits of new ideas and sustaining the change. Proactively plan change by establishing goals, allocating resources, and measuring results using tools and processes. Foster feedback loops to ensure the understanding and effectiveness of the change.
• Establish the organizational structure of the EHS Team that aligns with the functional systems and supports the EHS strategy, including both internal and external resources. Foster a well-coordinated, integrated, and engaged team. Create cross-functional teams when needed to ensure appropriate engagement. Empower change agents to promote continuous innovations and improvements.
• Recruit staff by determining leadership and technical skills needed and actively recruit the best talent. Foster continuous development of leadership and technical skills and create a learning environment that encourages efficient and effective processes.
• Facilitate training programs that ensure all facility personnel are knowledgeable and understand EHS requirements.
• Prepare and administer annual departmental budget and actively contribute to the facility budgeting process.
• Set the communication goal and objectives, identify critical audiences for communications, and develop key personalized messages that reinforce the strategy, goals, and priorities utilizing both internal and external communication resources.
• Develop effective communication channels, techniques, and tools that will reach the target audience including employees, contractors, and visitors with the key messages. Understand the effectiveness and limitations of each channel, technique or tool. Ensure that effective communication occurs…