EH&S Coordinator

Valence Surface Technologies; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Valence Surface Technologies in Tempe, AZ is seeking an experienced HSE professional to lead our environmental, health, and safety program. The role focuses on defining standards, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal rules, and driving continuous improvement across all plants.

You will oversee hazardous waste management, implement MOS reporting, conduct audits, and develop training to meet OSHA requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum knowledge of local, state and federal HSE regulations.
• Ability to lead a safety culture and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensures Corporate HSE standards are defined, implemented and driven daily through plant management.
• Lead the organization in continual improvement of the HSE culture focusing on air, water quality and permit compliance.
• Oversee all hazardous waste management.
• Maintain familiarity with the facility’s contingency plan and operations.
• Ensure compliance with safety and environmental procedures to support profitability and productivity.
• Conduct and follow up on health, safety, and environmental items and investigations.
• Deploy HSE MOS across Enterprise, Regional, Plant and Department levels with training and audits.
• Compile and submit regulatory, permit and compliance reports for all locations.
• Identify regulatory, permit and compliance concerns through audits and site visits and implement solutions.
• Implement a consistent HSE reporting and metrics system and analyze incident data for targeted activities.
• Audit internal programs to measure progress toward best-in-class standards.
• Operate and maintain heavy metal IX system, cyanide IX, pH adjust and RO recycling systems.
• Ensure routine inspections for permits and environmental compliance; maintain safety equipment and procedures.

Skills

HSE management

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Ensures the Corporate HSE standard practice is defined, implemented and driven daily through plant management in order to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations while maintaining company standards.
• Lead the organization in developing a continual improvement in the HSE culture at the workplace, starting with air, water quality and hazardous material permit compliance as well as OSHA training to implement an overall HSE practice to constant management and active monitoring of all permit compliance requirements and industrial safety practices. This practice includes office, administrative, material handling, transportation and all shop floor activities.
• Oversee all hazardous waste management.
• Must be thoroughly familiar with all aspects of the facility’s contingency plan, all operations and activities at the location.
• Work with and through management to ensure compliance with the safety and environmental procedures to assist in the achievement of profitability/productivity requirements.
• Conduct and follow up on all health, safety, and environmental items/investigations.
• Ensure HSE awareness and responsibility through the deployment of an HSE Management Operating System (MOS) at the Enterprise, Regional, Plant and Department levels including a consistent, safety hazard / near-miss reporting system, robust safety committees at all locations, frequent communication, on-site audits and a robust training, certification and learning system.
• Compile and submit ALL regulatory, permit and compliance reports for all company locations.
• Complete Audits and on-going site visits to constantly identify department level regulatory, permit and compliance concerns, safety hazards and evaluate loss producing potential of a given system, operation, or process and implement sustainable and measureable solutions that ensure full compliance of all locations.
• Implement a consistent HSE reporting and metrics system and analyze incident and injury/illness data for targeted HSE activities to drive a zero-incident culture.
• Audit internal programs to determine the effectiveness and progress to best-in-class standards.
• Operate and maintain heavy metal IX system, cyanide IX, pH adjust and RO recycling and reuse systems.
• Ensure a process and resources are in place with metrics to conduct routine inspections for permits, regulatory requirements, environmental compliance and industrial safety standards such as emergency lighting, fire extinguishers, hoists, ventilation, eyewash stations, PPE availability and all other HSE related activities at each location as necessary to maintain best-in-class HSE procedures.
• Ensure compliance to permit, consistent reporting, cost analysis scheduling and manifesting of hazardous waste shipments.
• Ensure a process and resources are in place to continuously update the SDS library at each facility.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds or less
• Requires frequent speaking, standing, and walking
• Occasional grasping, reaching, and bending
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Safety Glasses