Environmental, Health and Safety Mgr.

Overall Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with all applicable state and federal EHS rules and regulations and LEER Group EHS policies, safety training requirements, workers compensation management, accident prevention, incident reporting, investigations and reviews, risk assessment and EHS auditing and assessment.

The position is responsible for applying LEER Group's corporate policies and ensuring compliance and accurate reporting in terms of environmental health and safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Responsible for reviewing and updating existing facility EHS policies and procedures assuring their alignment with corporate and governmental regulations/policies and recommend changes as appropriate.


* Ensure facility compliance with all State, Local and Federal Regulations relating to EHS such as federal and state OSHA, EPA, IDEM, NFPA; Maintains positive relationship with Regulatory Agencies.


* Manage environmental issues such as Title V Air reports, Form R reports, stormwater, and hazardous waste including recordkeeping and reporting.


* Remains current in changing EHS regulations to actively advise the organization as to potential business impact.


* Provide EHS leadership by partnering with operational business functions to enable efficient knowledge transfer of key skills to manager, supervisors, and employees.


* Identifies and approves appropriate PPE for all job functions at each facility.


* Implement a Behavioral Based Safety program.

Use data to solicit feedback on best solutions, assign involvement, gain approval, and facilitate projects through to completion.


* Develop initiative-taking safety plans in support of 5S and other PPS / lean initiatives that provide solutions necessary to build and sustain a safe working culture.


* Analyze/trend observation data and spend a significant amount of time on the production floor to identify needed safety improvement projects.


* Drive constant improvement in human, equipment, chemical, facility safety awareness and conformance to safe practices on and off the job.


* Continually seek opportunities to improve the knowledge and skill of the facility management and supervisors to positively impact the safe operations of the business.


* Analyze/interpret company safety metrics to proactively target and eliminate injury to associates through the development of facility-specific reduction plans.


* Execute a comprehensive facility inspection process to ensure continuous improvement while maintaining regulatory compliance.


* Demonstrated ability to perform root cause analysis of incident/accident investigations.


* In conjunction with each facility, develop and provide required regulatory training needs and oversees completion.

Including maintenance of all record keeping processes.


* Supports HR in Worker's Comp.

reviews and ensures compliance.


* Participates and helps facilitate monthly safety tea...