Environmental, Health and Safety Lead

Environmental Health & Safety Leader

Location:

Summit, IL 60501

The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Leader is a critical member of the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) providing guidance and coaching in the areas of safety and environmental stewardship to all plant members. The EHS Leader must maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, positively influence employees, and engage them in all aspects of safety and environmental processes. This position leads the development, implementation, and evaluation of critical safety and environmental processes, programs, and procedures to achieve a zero‑injury environment while sustaining world‑class safety and environmental performance.

• Transform plant safety and environmental performance to world‑class levels that align with division and Owens Corning corporate goals.
• Build and foster a safety culture among all plant employees.
• Reduce the plant's environmental footprint in the community.
• Support and help build a culture of wellness.
• Advise and guide the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) in developing a risk‑ranked strategic plan, prioritize and advocate capital/resource requests, and advise the leadership team on all aspects of environmental requirements and responsibilities.
• Implement a personal safety action plan.
• Manage Plant Safety metrics – RIR, first aids, near misses, SAFE and Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) scores.
• Manage Plant Environmental metrics.

• Coach, mentor, and re‑direct personnel in the plant to develop extraordinary Safety leaders.
• Grow and develop the direct reports, as well as the safety teams within the workforce.
• Maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, influence employee and supervisory behaviors, and fully engage employees in the safety process.
• Enroll and engage the entire workforce to build a powerful safety culture.
• Assess effectiveness of plant leadership from an EH&S perspective and provide developmental guidance as required.
• Develop safety programs and incident tracking systems to drive insights on injury prevention and ways to engineer out safety risk.
• Lead a safety committee of plant employees to create a safe and environmentally conscious workforce.
• Start and lead Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) EHS programs in support of the overall plant strategy.
• Develop and implement training programs in a coordinated effort with appropriate plant personnel.
• Continually reinforce the Company's stand on safety.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of all critical EH&S processes, programs, and procedures.
• Set and accomplish critical metrics regularly to ensure continuous improvement in the processes that lead to an engaged safety culture on the floor.
• Recognize employee accomplishments and contributions.

• Ensure regulatory compliance of all environmental permits and processes.
• Foster positive relationships with governmental agencies and work as a partner to improve plant.
• Create, maintain, and oversee the compliance calendar for all regulatory requirements.
• Effectively address enforcement actions from local, state, or federal agencies.
• Provide expert technical support in identifying, and resolving, critical regulatory issues.
• Ensure adherence to corporate policies and programs.
• Maintain the corporate management systems.
• Address deficiencies in internal EHS audits.
• Continuously elevation of the customer perspective of self and others by knowing our products, manufacturing, and selling processes. The E&S Lead applies this knowledge to successfully influence other leaders to make the best business decisions.

• Strong working knowledge of environmental, health, and safety compliance law and industrial hygiene.
liAbility to identify hazards, critical process, and system needs and implement appropriate action plans.
• Ability to establish agreement and consensus with management.
• Ability to effectively engage employees is critical.
• Ability to initiate and lead cross‑functional teams and management/union committees to achieve objectives.
• Adept at developing and…