EHS Supervisor

Eaton Corporation; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Santa Ana, CA seeks a Talented Environmental, Health, and Safety Supervisor to lead MESH policy compliance, training, and emergency planning at the facility.

The role emphasizes reducing incidents through regulatory guidance, incident investigations, and collaboration with corporate security and EHS teams, while ensuring adherence to local and federal regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in environmental, health or safety in a manufacturing setting.
• Minimum 1 year in a leadership role with direct/indirect reports.
• No immigration sponsorship; candidate must reside within 50 miles.
• Compliance with local, state and federal EHS regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide policy and regulatory guidance in MESH to facility management.
• Coordinate training of personnel in safety, health and environmental policies.
• Develop and maintain plant emergency response plans and conduct drills.
• Investigate environmental incidents and implement corrective actions.
• Prepare Federal, State and local reports on hazardous waste and air emissions.
• Evaluate projects and chemicals for EHS compliance and implement MOC.
• Coordinate with corporate initiatives to drive best practices.
• Develop written safety plans (e.g., Hearing Conservation, PPE).
• Ensure plant safety inspections are performed and corrective actions tracked.
• Record and analyze metrics: TRC, DAC, safety observations, near misses, first aids, training completion.

Skills

Regulatory guidance

Training coordination

Incident investigation

Emergency planning

EHS compliance

Safety management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Eaton’s Data Center Power Solutions is seeking a Talented Environmental, Health, and Safety Supervisor for Santa Ana, CA.

Position Overview

The Supervisor of Environmental, Safety/Security Health (MESH) is a member of the Santa Ana EHS Team and assists with leading the safety, security, health and environmental policies of the Santa Ana manufacturing facility in conjunction with the Eaton Corporation Global Security requirements and MESH guidelines to drive a Zero Incident Culture for the purpose of making the facilities a safe and productive place to work. Maintain compliance with all local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $99,000 - $145,000 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.

What you’ll do

• Provide policy and regulatory guidance in MESH to facility management.
• Coordinate the training of all personnel in the required safety, health and environmental policies.
• Develop and maintain plant emergency response plans and ensures drills are performed to document plan effectiveness. May serve as the plant emergency coordinator.
• Investigates environmental incidents to determine root causes and prepares and implements corrective action plans.
• Prepare and submit required Federal, State and local governmental reports in regard to hazardous waste disposal, air emissions and plant waste discharge.
• Evaluate proposed projects and proposed new chemicals and ensures plans are in-place and implemented to address EHS compliance issues e.g. Ensuring MESH MOC Process is implemented.
• Coordinate and assist with corporate initiatives, participating on teams in order to drive best practices across Eaton Corp.
• Develop and maintain all required written safety plans, e.g., Hearing Conservation, PPE.
• Ensure all required plant safety inspections are performed and documented, e.g., fire extinguishers, fire risers, emergency response equipment, safety showers, eye wash stations, emergency lights, ladders, housekeeping and that corrective actions are completed for identified deficiencies.
• Record and analyze any measurable statistics:
  • Total Recordable Case Rate
  • Days Away Case Rate
  • Safety Observations
  • Near Misses
  • First Aids
  • Training Completion Rate

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school.
• Minimum 4 years of experience working in environmental, health or safety OR a combination of those functions in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 1 year experience working in a leadership management role with direct or indirect reports.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position; candidates must reside within a 50-mile radius in order to be considered for this role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree from an accredited school.
• 5+ years of experience in an EHS Management role.
• Certified Safety Manager Certification.
• Experience with facility startups or managing multiple locations is a plus.

Skills

• Knowledge of state and federal occupational environmental, health and safety and health laws and regulations.
• Knowledge of workers compensation administration.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, tact, diplomacy, and performance assessment skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills. Must have strong presentation and facilitation skills.
• Effective use of communication and tact with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking skills; intellectual rigor and curiosity; problem-solving capability.
• Data-driven, disciplined, objective, and detail-oriented.
• Acts as a business partner; sees the big picture and works through ambiguity and change.
• Ability to be energetic, a critical thinker, skilled in driving process improvement.
• Ability to influence and motivate people.

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Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families.