Specialist Environmental, Health & Safety

Job Title

Specialist, EHS

39815

Northampton On-site

9/80 M-F

L3

Harris is seeking an Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Specialist supporting Northampton Site operations. The EHS Specialist drives the development, organization, administration, enforcement, and continuous improvement of EHS programs to ensure compliance with federal, state, county, local, and customer requirements. The EHS Specialist will support the location’s performance toward meeting injury rate and environmental sustainability goals, as well as continuous improvement and validation of EHS compliance requirements.

• Oversees Environmental, Health and Safety in Northampton, Massachusetts.
• Serves as the subject matter expert in EHS to the Operations, Engineering, and Program Management/Development organizations.
• Reports to the Sector Leader directly, with a dotted line to Operation leads for the two business divisions located in Camden.
• Supported by a network of EHS professionals and corporate leadership within L3
  
  Harris.
• Works in environments that are a mix of manufacturing, assembly, repair, engineering, program development, and office activities.
• Expected to rotate onsite support across the two locations and works on a 9‑80 schedule, with availability to support additional shifts or programs as required.

• Supports all aspects of EHS performance, including injury reduction and avoidance, environmental sustainability initiatives, and meeting EHS regulatory and company requirements.
• Conducts workplace surveys, safety audits, risk assessments, and advises management of conditions requiring corrective action, tracking resolutions to effective closure.
• Focuses on continuous improvement and management of change of EHS programs in processes, systems, and products. Focus areas include ergonomics, chemical management, hazard and risk assessments, and hazardous waste small quantity generator.
• Supports incident investigations and data/trend analysis to determine root cause, produces and maintains necessary documentation, and ensures all applicable reporting requirements are performed accurately and in a timely manner.
• Ensures dissemination of ownership responsibilities for regulatory, corporate, and internal obligations throughout all business functions. Develops written programs to define and training programs to disseminate these responsibilities. Audits work practices to ensure adherence by employees and enforcement by management.
• Regularly briefs site operations and leadership teams on programs, trends, and action plans.
• Remains current with all applicable regulations and company policies.
• Establishes and maintains necessary contacts with city, county, state, and federal regulatory agencies.
• Maintains required records in accordance with regulatory and L3
  
  Harris requirements, including site permits and licenses, training, certifications, inspections, audits, etc.
• Supports the standardization of EHS processes across the three locations.
• Responsible for monitoring and driving sustainability initiatives.
• Performs related duties or special projects as directed.

• Requires proficient knowledge of job area. May have practical knowledge of project management.
• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• EHS‑related professional accreditations, though not required: OSHA Certifications;
  Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Professional Engineer, etc.
• Involvement in high performance programs: VPP, ISO 45001, 14001.
• Strong root cause analysis skills.
• Experience using and leveraging EHS common systems, such as Gensuite.

• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, problem‑solving, and analysis skills.
• Exhibits sound judgment and professionalism in all situations.
• Ability to use data visualization tools such as PowerBI to analyze data for use in developing forward plans.
• Practical experience developing, training, and implementing EHS programs and trainings.
• Ability to research technical…