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Position Summary
: The Senior Manager, EHS will be responsible to develop and implement safety and environmental programs to ensure chemical operations comply and are consistent with all applicable regulatory and corporate requirements. In addition, the EHS manager will assist departments in maintaining the on-going compliance of existing operations as well as new and modified processes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides EHS expertise to the site relating to identifying and advising of potential safety/health hazards or environmental concerns and assist in developing and implementing corrective actions.
- Provides expertise pertaining to local, state and national regulatory standards.
- Ensures implementation of the EHS division and corporate improvement process goals of the business.
- Provides the road that may to lead the site culture to eliminate all injuries and all regulatory NOVs.
- Participates in cross-functional EHS audits of company facilities and ensures adequate follow-up and remedy for issues identified.
- Implements and drives the development and implementation formal and informal audit and assurance processes for the business.
- Ensures site activities are compliant with all applicable regulatory permit requirements (air, water, waste, etc.).
- Drives and enables safe work practices and environmental responsibility. Ensures site compliance with EHS policies, procedures, and awareness programs.
- Manages and ensures the site security is effective and in compliance with DHS guidelines.
- Manages the site nursing staff to ensure proper proactive and post incident care is provided for all employees.
- Coordinates or leads investigations and corrective/preventive actions of significant incidents or near misses to identify and solve root causes.
- Collaborates with site leadership to develop tools and techniques; help managers, engineers and other employees to manage change to mitigate the safety impact.
- Work globally with other HRPBs to align solutions with business needs.
- Forecasts and controls expenses, and implements plans to ensure commitments on budget, cost and schedule are met.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree; preferable in occupational safety, environmental health, engineering, or the physical sciences; advanced degree desirable.
- Eight or more years of experience in the process safety and environmental areas within the chemical processing or related manufacturing industry.
- CSP and Environmental certifications preferred.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements:
- Familiar with a range of continuous and batch chemical manufacturing processes and driving safety within the plant environment
- Knowledge of US safety and occupational health regulations (OSHA) and EPA regulations
- Experience in safety incident classification, investigation methodologies, and root cause analyses desirable
- Must be able to develop/conduct training for both technical / management and operator level
- Working experience with risk concepts, including classification from consequence and frequency estimates, risk-based decision making and cost-benefit analysis
- Knowledgeable of occupational safety programs, including behavioral based safety management, incident reporting, job task surveys, ergonomics; and, able to recognize health and industrial hygiene issues
- Familiar with process safety management systems, including MOC and other elements of the OSHA PSM standard. Working familiarity with the technical aspects of process safety – P&IDs, interlocks (SIS), emergency relief systems, fire/explosion suppression systems, quantified risk assessment
- Previous Environmental Management and Compliance leadership experience including air, water, waste, etc. required
- Experience in media training or experiences highly preferred
- Strong facilitative leadership abilities to enable organization to achieve EHS objectives
- Experience with Hazard and Risk assessment, process Safety, Environmental Compliance, OHSA, Emergency Response, Contractor Management, Management Systems, and Incident Investigation preferred
- Experience managing EHS auditing initiatives, including conducting risk assessment, ensuring adherence to laws, regulations, and policies, interviewing key personnel and conducting audit reporting and writing
- Ability to influence direction across a complex organization
- Must be able to work at all levels of the organization plus with external regulatory agencies, must have excellent communication skills
Safety Requirements:
All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to encourage and support safe work practices at all times, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Must wear PPE as required based on job duties or when traveling to locations where PPE is essential.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. ARCADIUM LITHIUM employs people across a broad range of occupations in locations across the world. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets.
Employees enjoy competitive compensation, a menu of work/life benefits and opportunities to continue developing their skills and building their career. ARCADIUM LITHIUM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV and supports a drug free workplace.
