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SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Manager develops, implements, and monitors company environmental health and safety (EH&S) programs and policies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations. Maintains safety equipment inventory, performs periodic safety inspections, and monitors hazardous waste removal vendors. Interacting with a variety of departments, conducts training in emergency response and hazardous material handling. Monitors environmental compliance and maintains liaison with appropriate regulatory agencies.  Alerts leadership team with corrective action where environmental health and safety hazards exist.  Works with plant management at all facilities to drive best practices and supporting a robust safety culture.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Direct EH&S activities to include planning, implementing, and managing technical performance to ensure quality and financial objectives are attained.
2. Leads EH&S project(s) including project design and schedule to meet objectives. Develops short and long-term EH&S objectives and recommends goals to management.
3. Ensures and maintains all necessary permits for Environmental and Regulatory Compliance.
4. Ensures that appropriate corrective action is taken where health and safety hazards exist.
5. Leads activities related to EH&S programs and ensures company compliance with any applicable regulations, reviews requirements regarding safety aspects.
6. Develops appropriate electronic and hard copy reports and records. May develop new or revise existing electronic or hard copy systems and makes internal and external presentations.
7. Collaborates with senior and executive management to develop and implement current and annual technical, schedule, quality, and financial objectives for the EH&S program(s) to ensure strategic business objectives are met. May also participate in the development of annual and long-term objectives for the organization.
8. Represents the organization as a primary spokesperson with line management, program managers, technical staff, and outside representatives.
9. Promotes workplace safety, and develops, maintains, and manages EH&S programs at the site(s), including proactive incident and illness prevention, respiratory protection, contractor safety, and hazardous chemical management.
10. Completes all regulatory reporting requirements (Fire, OSHA, EPA).
11. Manage Safety Committee activities, agenda preparation, reports, follow-ups, incentive programs.
12. Manage all different safety programs, conduct training and manage documentation.
13. Compiles, analyzes, maintains and interprets safety statistical data related to exposure factors concerning occupational illnesses and accidents, first aid incidents, near miss records and conduct root cause analysis for accident reports and evaluate injury case studies.
14. Manage, perform periodic safety walks with department managers, safety committee, insurance carriers, or consultants.
15. Support Onboarding and Orientation safety training
16. Ability to maintain confidentiality on all issues related to the position.
17. May be required to assist in the consolidation and disposal of hazardous waste.
18. Travel requirements, travel to all manufacturing locations will be required.
19. Performs other duties as assigned or required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: 

Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 10+ years of progressively complex experience; Additional professional experience may be substituted in lieu of education.

The incumbent must possess excellent communications skills, be a high-energy problem solver/achiever, be well organized and detail oriented; goal oriented with the ability to manage a team to success.  The highest level of organizational trust and ethics are essential to support Maysteel’s Vision and Values.

COMPETENCIES:

Action-Orientated –Enjoys working hard, is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.

Strategic Agility –Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.

Dealing with Ambiguity –Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up I the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Command Skills –Relishes leading; takes unpopular stand if necessary; encourages direct and tough debate but isn’t afraid to end it and move on; is looked to for direction in a crisis; faces adversity head on; energized by tough challenges.

Technical Skills –Must have a thorough knowledge of practices and methods for developing and administering a comprehensive EH&S program, including designing employee EH&S training programs, must be proficient in performing EH&S assessments to identify workplace hazards and determining appropriate control measures, must have broad knowledge of methods and practices for conducting accident and workplace safety audits and investigations required and must demonstrate extensive technical understanding of environmental health and safety principles, concepts, theories, regulations and practices.

Organizational skills –Must have leadership skills including organizing, planning, budgeting, scheduling and coordinating workloads to meet established deadline milestones.

Maysteel is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer of all qualified individuals.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.  Maysteel also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of the protected characteristics. Maysteel participates in E-Verify to verify the employment status of all persons hired to work in the United States.