Sr. Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Sr. Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Strivector Corp is a National Staffing and Recruiting agency established in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. We are a preferred partner for several Fortune 500 companies nationwide. Strivector has been consistently rated a rare 4.6/5 on Google, Indeed and Glassdoor by our candidates, customers, employees and contractors. Elevate your professional journey with us. Strivector's premier client (a well-known market leader in their space) is hiring for the following full-time direct hire position.

As a Sr. Environmental Health & Safety Specialist your roles and responsibilities will include:

• Supports and promotes safe practices in alignment with company commitments, policies, and compliance requirements.
• Acts as an OSHA and EPA regulatory compliance resource.
• Leads or participates in incident investigations (injury, property damage, near-hit, environmental deviations, etc.) and root cause analysis, and works with the plant operations team to determine appropriate corrective/preventative action.
• Perform risk and hazard assessments/inspections to determine employee risk/exposure and suggest/drive actions to mitigate/reduce them.
• Establish and drive continuous improvement in the facility's safety monitoring and recordkeeping systems to ensure compliance with all JM policies and federal regulatory requirements.
• Assist the plant operations team and JM Corporate Safety to evaluate and determine appropriate proactive safety strategies for projects that may have an impact on the facility or employees.
• Develop action plans for safety activities, coordinate the plant Safety Committee team, perform follow-up on these activities, and report status to the Plant Manager.
• Facilitate safety, health and environmental training for all plant personnel.
• Compile and track all documentation for compliance with all safety and environmental policies and required activities (Work Notifications, Inspection Records, OSHA 300, etc.).
• Support plant initiatives towards Lean, Kaizen, Cost Reduction, 5S and other facility improvements.
• Assist in driving continuous improvement in the facilities environmental monitoring and recordkeeping data management systems to ensure compliance with all JM policies and federal, state, and local regulatory requirements
• Ensure that all industrial process waste waters are properly managed and discharged from the plant in a manner that protects ground waters and surface tributaries from contamination and is in compliance with the plants operating discharge permit (if applicable).
• Ensure the proper onsite management and offsite disposal of solid, universal, and hazardous wastes and lead a plant-wide effort to eliminate these by correcting the eliminating the root causes and/or reducing wastes, reusing, and recycling various materials
• Assist JM Corporate Environmental to evaluate and determine appropriate permitting and abatement strategies for projects that may have an impact on existing air quality permits.
• Ensure compliance with all safety and environmental policies, procedures, and programs.
• Ensure all safety, health and environmental metrics and reports are completed and communicated in a timely manner.
• Assist in regard to workers compensation cases.
• Serve as training coordinator for all EHS-related trainings through Safety Skills and other computer-based training (CBT).

Most importantly, you need to be a passionate Sr. Environmental Health & Safety Specialist who enjoys his work and is considered to be one of the best within your organization. The ideal Sr. Environmental Health & Safety Specialist would be someone with deep experience in many (if not all) of the following:

• Prior Safety Specific Training (OSHA 30 Hour, Certificate in Occupational Safety & Health, etc.)
• Seven (7) or more years of experience in a safety and/or environmental role in an industrial setting. Comfortable working in a plant environment.
• Must meet one or more of the following criteria:
• Has served as the EHS Leader of the site for a minimum of three years.
• Is recognized by the Company as a Subject Matter Expert in a specific EHS discipline (e.g. Fall Protection, Machine Safeguarding, Process Safety, etc.), and is called upon to share his/her expertise with other locations within the Company.
• Professional Certifications in Safety, Environmental or Occupational Health (e.g. CSP, CIH, OHST, SMS, CEM, CHMM, etc.)
• Working knowledge of federal safety and environmental laws (e.g. OSHA, EPA, etc.)
• Ability to work with respective outside agencies and contracted employees.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). Ability to use a variety of software applications to analyze, monitor data, create reports, and presentations.
• Ability to climb stairs, ladders, extensive walking, confined spaces, wear a respirator (if applicable) and handle exposures to hot/cold environments.
• Excellent communication, training and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated Root-Cause analysis skills (RCCA,…