EHS Specialist

EHS Specialist

Eaton's ES GDCO DIT division is currently seeking an EHS Specialist. This is a Full Time role (Monday-Friday, Daylight) based at our facility in Woodridge, IL!

The expected annual salary range for this role is $71000 - $105000 a year. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

The EHS Analyst supports environmental, health, safety, sustainability, and security efforts for all employees and groups based out of Eaton's Distributed IT (D-IT) organization, part of the Global Data Center business in Woodridge, IL. Individual is accountable for supporting EHS activities including: achieving EHS objectives and targets, internal reporting of EHS performance, assuring closure of MESH and regulatory agency findings on a timely basis, and ensures plant level EHS programs, policies, procedures and systems are developed, implemented and sustained to ensure compliance with local, state and federal regulatory requirements and conformance with Eaton mandates.

Position is also responsible for site security, supporting facility management, and enforcing a strong EHS zero incident culture that engages employees throughout the site in EHS teams and processes.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Champions and leads projects designed to effectively drive improvements in our "Zero Incident Safety Culture" program(s). Support EHS committees needed to accomplish the established targets and objectives for the year.
• Facilitate risk assessments at the location to identify critical EHS hazards and aspects. Work with leadership team to create targets and objectives based on key EHS risks.
• Partners with other functional support/engineering teams to ensure plant projects, changes, upgrades, and modifications adhere to and meet the PROLaunch and MESH "Change Management" processes.
• Supports the creation of EHS goals for the site and appropriate activity-based goals for the extended leadership team to drive EHS culture, compliance, and results.
• Uses established EHS data processes (such as MESH Prism) to manage data such as injuries and illnesses, environmental metrics, risk assessments, EHS action items, etc.
• Manages site security and supports facility management, as needed.
• Facilitates EHS engagement through EHS employee teams and committees (such as Safety Committee and Electrical Safety Team) needed to accomplish the established targets and objectives for the year; facilitates safety-related kaizen events and weekly Gemba walks to accomplish the established targets and objectives for the year.
• Compiles and analyzes MESH data for capturing in Eaton's Safety database to include corrective action tracking and MESH scoring; produces data for monthly balanced scorecard based on MESH corrective action completion and incident rates.
• Work with leadership team and MESH element champions to complete an annual evaluation (MESH self-assessment) of compliance of EHS local, state and federal regulations;
  Participate in the Corporate EHS assessment process.
• Works to facilitate engagement of MESH (EHS management) element champions in their ownership of the MESH elements.
• Support third party recognition programs that establish the site and Eaton's EHS program as world class.
• Coordinate the training of all personnel in the required safety, health and environmental policies.
• Evaluate jobs for possible ergonomic improvements (body mechanics, lifts, hoists, manipulators, etc.) and implement these work design changes.

• Manage and direct site in achieving EHS targets & objectives.

• Facilitate risk assessments at the location to identify critical EHS hazards and aspects.

• Work with leadership team to create targets and objectives based on key EHS risks.

• Assist with determining appropriate leading and lagging indicators to track performance against targets and objectives.

• Support creation of EHS goals for the site manager and appropriate activity-based goals for the leadership team, functional managers, and front-line supervisors to drive EHS culture, compliance,…