Environmental Health & Safety Manager (Bi-Lingual)

American Air Filter International; Smithfield (NC); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental safety firm is seeking an EHS Manager in Smithfield, North Carolina. This role focuses on providing environmental, health, and safety leadership, ensuring compliance with local regulations, and fostering a strong EHS culture. The ideal candidate will have a degree in occupational safety or a related field, managerial courage, and bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish. Responsibilities include directing EHS activities, managing risks, and driving initiatives for achieving EHS targets.

Qualifications

• Degree in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, or related discipline.
• Advanced degree or certifications like Certified Safety Professional.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Direct EHS activities and manage site risks.
• Achieve EHS targets and objectives.
• Facilitate risk assessments to identify EHS hazards.
• Drive zero incident EHS culture across the site.
• Create training matrices for EHS personnel.

Skills

Team-building skills

Organizational skills

EHS data reporting skills

Managerial courage

Cross-functional team leadership

Environmental safety program management

Employee training

Education

Four year degree in occupational safety

Advanced degree or professional certification

Job description

Overview

This position provides environmental, health, and safety leadership to the site. Individual is accountable for: directing EHS activities at his/her location(s); establishing EHS objectives and targets; internal reporting of EHS performance; communication of national, area, and local regulatory requirements, and; ensuring documents are available in the local languages.

Position is responsible for: maintaining site ISO/OHSAS certifications (as applicable); assuring accurate and complete EHS reporting of metrics; assuring closure of company and regulatory agency findings on a timely basis; completion of required training for EHS personnel; managing interfaces with the public and governmental authorities with adverse findings and enforcement actions; directing actions during crises; creating a strong EHS culture that engages employees throughout the site in EHS teams and processes

Responsibilities

• Manages and directs site in achieving EHS targets & objectives.
• Directs development, maintenance, and achievement of goals in support of corporate and business group EHS strategic initiatives.
• Facilitates risk assessment at the location to identify critical EHS hazards and aspects. Works with leadership team to create targets and objectives based on key EHS risks.
• Determines appropriate leading and lagging indicators to track performance against targets and objectives
• Supports creation of EHS goals for the site based on goals for the leadership team, functional managers, and front-line supervisors to drive EHS culture, compliance, and results.
• Works to assign EHS element champions and facilitate their engagement in ownership of the TMS elements
• Drives and promotes zero incident EHS culture throughout site.
• Creates and facilitates EHS engagement through EHS teams and committees needed to accomplish the established targets and objectives for the year.
• Works with leadership team and EHS element champions to complete an annual evaluation of compliance for EHS country, state, and local regulations.
• Pursues third party recognition for programs that establish the site and AAF EHS program as world class.
• Uses established EHS data processes such GKAR process to manage data such as injuries and illnesses, environmental metrics, risk assessments, EHS action items and other pertinent information.
• Create training matrices to ensure that all training is defined and tracked to completion.
• Work with site leadership team and facilities to ensure that all key EHS operational controls are in place, on a PM program, and that EHS action items are resolved on a timely basis.

Requirements/Knowledge

• Four (4) year degree in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, industrial engineering, environmental discipline or equivalent. Avanced degree or professional certification (Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager).

Experience Preferred

• Strong team-building skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Adept at utilization of company-wide system for reporting EHS data and information.
• Ability to demonstrate managerial courage (e.g., managing varied interests representing potential conflicts).
• Ability to lead and support cross-functional EHS teams.
• Prior experience or education with an emphasis in environmental, health and safety program management and employee training.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish.