Health and Safety Engineer

Norsk Hydro; Rosemont (IL); Remote; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Health and Safety Engineer, where you'll play a critical role in enhancing safety culture across manufacturing plants. With a focus on continuous improvement, you'll assess and support underperforming facilities, ensuring compliance with OSHA standards and fostering a proactive approach to health and safety. This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the well-being of employees and the efficiency of operations, all while being part of a dedicated team committed to a greener future. If you're passionate about safety and ready to drive change, this position is for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in health and safety within manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of OSHA standards and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Support plants in developing health and safety culture across the network.
• Evaluate and standardize H&S processes to improve compliance.

Skills

Risk assessment

Incident investigation

Coaching & teaching

OSHA requirements

Cultural change in a turnaround environment

Influencing and change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering or health and safety

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Health and Safety Engineer

Are you looking to make a real impact? For over a century, our people have been the driving force in solving some of the world’s most pressing issues – and we hope you’ll join us in solving the next century’s. Whether you're working to close the loop at one of our recycling facilities or ensuring efficient renewable energy processes to decarbonize aluminium production, your contributions make an impact in our shared purpose of propelling our industries and the world into a greener future.

Hydro Extrusions is a world-leading aluminium extrusion business counting around 100 production sites in 40 countries and employing 20,000 people. Through our unique combination of local expertise, global network, and unmatched R&D capabilities, we can offer everything from standards profiles to advanced development and manufacturing for most industries. Since 1905, Hydro has turned natural resources into valuable products for people and businesses with focus on a safe and good workplace for our 30,000 employees in more than 140 locations.

Location: Remote

Pay Range: $95,000-$105,000/year

Job Summary:

The Health & Safety Engineer will be a true, experienced safety professional who will report to the Director, Health, Safety & Security. They can come together as a team and support the plants networks in the development of health and safety culture across the ENA network. The core responsibility of the role is to support and triage underperforming plants as ’boots on the ground’, to identify gaps related to performance and supporting plants by helping to do the work to make positive change.

The resource would require 60% travel or more and would support plants with higher rates of injury and near misses for extended periods of time to provide coaching to drive improved processes and work cultures. This role will help plant resources to learn how to ‘see’ risk among a new demographic of employees and therefore take less of it in the pathway of their daily work. They will also support several upgrades required to policy, procedure, training qualification assessment of plant HSE teams as part of a 3-year program to enhance and sure up the robustness of these processes.

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering or health and safety.
• Minimum eight (8) years working in turnaround situations within the health & safety sector of manufacturing.
• Understanding of OSHA 1904 standards for manufacturing required.

Preferred Skills/Qualifications:

• Risk assessment, incident investigation, coaching & teaching, OSHA requirements, fatality prevention protocols, cultural change in a turnaround environment.
• Knowledge of health and safety management systems (ISO 45001) is a plus, OSHA 1904.
• Good understanding of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Highly motivated, creative, and results oriented.
• Exceptional influencing and change management skills.
• Ability to clearly identify and close gaps in compliance.
• Aluminum extrusion industry is preferred but not mandatory.

Job Responsibilities:

• Helps deploy C7-based projects such as Brady 360 for LTV standardization.
• Assesses effectiveness of incident corrective actions, supports case management, supports audit action closure, maintains focused plant support in all areas needed and as requested.
• Evaluates H&S above plant and plant level processes to determine where largest gaps exist. Works to standardize processes across plants so they can fall under a tighter policy umbrella and thus be easier to manage from a compliance perspective with central oversight.
• Develops competency matrix for H&S professionals and assesses the network against a set of basic skills and abilities that are prerequisites for functional excellence in plant level roles, identifies developmental opportunities where there are gaps.
• Develops health and safety training material and training plans for all professionals in the network where additional HSE competency is required.
• Audits signage at all facilities and develops a standard for use by all ENA plants. Decides what signage is needed to ensure HSE compliance messaging is communicated in all the languages needed based on individual plant demographics (working with the Marketing Team to create excellent, invigorating messaging around HSE compliance).

At Hydro We care about our People!

We care about Safety!

Hydro in North America is an Equal Opportunity Employer where all phases of employment are based strictly upon the qualifications of the individual as related to the work requirements of the position. This policy is applied without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, marital status or any other category protected by law. We strive to provide equal opportunities for all to contribute and succeed with us.

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Posted on: Apr 7, 2025

Location:

Rosemont, IL, US, 60018

Department: Director, Safety and Health Programs