Environment, Health and Safety Manager

The Clorox Company; Amherst (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clorox Company is seeking an experienced Plant Environment, Health and Safety Manager to drive a comprehensive HSE program and sustain a Zero Loss culture at the site in Virginia. You will lead safety initiatives, regulatory compliance, and training, partnering with corporate HSE to implement standards across the plant.

You will mentor leadership and frontline teams, manage investigations, and advance a world-class HSE environment through effective communication and risk reduction actions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of work experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment, leading an HSE program.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Working knowledge of environmental regulatory management.
• Experience supporting or leading a state mandated Worker’s Compensation Program.
• Experience understanding and interpreting regulatory documents (NFPA, OSHA/DOL, EPA, state plans).
• Ability to perform Root Cause Analysis on complex systems and programs.
• Experience leading manufacturing improvement tools (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen).
• Ability to manage multiple tasks autonomously and lead capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive safety process improvements to reduce at-risk conditions and build a Zero Loss culture.
• Lead development of plant HSE strategy and safety culture change.
• Manage HSE team and mentor leadership, technical and floor teams.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA and local regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate and mentor HSE education and training initiatives.
• Serve as point of contact for inspectors and regulatory bodies.

Skills

HSE leadership

Safety culture development

Root Cause Analysis

Regulatory knowledge

Training/Coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Lean Mfg.

Six Sigma

Autonomous maintenance

Kaizen

SMED

Job description

The Plant Environment, Health and Safety Manager works to drive sustainable HSE Programs, under the guidance of oversite of Center HSE Leadership. This position will influence and drive the development, implementation, and sustainability of a comprehensive health, safety, & environmentally compliant and “Zero Loss” culture.

In this role, you will:

Leadership and People Empowerment:

• Drive safety process improvement projects and programs focused on reducing at-risk conditions and behaviors while working to build a “Zero Loss” safety culture
• Support and lead development of plant HSE strategy
• Lead safety culture change, focusing on mindsets, behaviors and capabilities
• Raise the level of hazard awareness and lower risk tolerance across the plant
• Engage everyone on an emotional as well as rational level. Be viewed by customers as providing support and solutions to HSE needs
• Lead HSE team and committee
• Provide mentoring and coaching to leadership, technical support, and operating teams to drive safe decisions at the floor level.
• Drive application of best practices
• Lead HSE education/awareness through training, development, and communication to drive compliance to national, state and local regulatory requirements
• Facilitate/manage safety improvement through use of improvement methodology tools
• Develop and train assigned group or plant HSE leads, ensuring they have the regulatory and technical knowledge and ability to provide day to day HSE support
• Partner with corporate HSE team to make sure plant fully implements Clorox HSE standards and to obtain support for plant HSE needs
• Achieve “World class” HSE results, making sure plant results are at or better than goal, thru effective communications and process adherence, including injuries, notices of violation, spills, and environmental incidents and effective reporting with risk reduction follow-up to prevent recurrence

HSE Systems, Compliance and Technical Support:

• Support establishment metrics to support achievement of HSE goals
• Conduct on-site HSE assessments
• Observe plant activities and communicate out of compliance behaviors or conditions, taking immediate action to ensure compliance
• Develop and lead Zero Waste to Landfill strategy
• Manage the HSE Management System, troubleshoot any issues, and assist site in use system
• Create processes to create a safe working environment throughout the plant
• Develop and execute safety incident investigation process to drive root cause analysis and action planning to eliminate future risks
• Coordinate, implement, and maintain highest level of compliance to OSHA and Clorox standards
• Be the point of contact for safety & environmental inspectors and maintain a professional relationship with them.
• Complete timely environmental regulatory reporting
• Support local human resources or other plant functions on worker’s compensation claims management

Other Deliverables:

• Collaborate to make sure site capital and investment plans support top priority HSE needs
• Provide input to operations for safe employee/machine engagement as equipment, improvements/new technology are introduced
• Drive environmental initiatives to support sustainability goals

Scope Factors:

• On a daily basis, this role will interact with site resources – cross functional.
• On a weekly basis, this role will interact with off-site Sr Leadership and/or with partners across their BU.
• On a monthly basis, this role will interact with leaders & partners across other BUs.
• On a quarterly basis, this role could interact with external vendors, partners, and government agencies.
• They must be able to partner with site leadership and external partners to effectively lead the entire facility in: 1) reducing employee injuries, 2) driving legal compliance, 3) driving environmental compliance.

What we look for:

• 7+ years of work experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment, leading an HSE program
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
• Working knowledge of environmental regulatory management
• Experience supporting or leading a state mandated Worker’s Compensation Program
• Experience understanding and interpreting regulatory documents, such as NFPA, OSHA/DOL, EPA, and state plans
• Ability to lead thorough Root Cause Analysis into complex systems & programs
• Experience with leading manufacturing tools i.e. Lean Mfg., Six Sigma, Autonomous maintenance, Focused Improvement, Kaizen, SMED, etc.
• Ability to effectively manage, prioritize and execute multiple tasks in an autonomous way.
• Demonstrated history effectively leading HSE sections of capital projects
• Current certification as a trainer of First Aid/CPR/AED