Summary
The Manufacture Reliability & EHS Specialist drives operational excellence by analyzing performance metrics, implementing process enhancements, and ensuring regulatory compliance. This role combines technical expertise in maintenance optimization with a strong focus on environmental, health, and safety standards to deliver measurable improvements across all operational areas.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Drives KPI achievement through systematic fault elimination, risk mitigation, asset lifecycle management, and continuous performance monitoring.
- Analyzes operational metrics to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for measurable process improvements.
- Evaluates maintenance procedures and schedules for effectiveness, develops improvement recommendations, and implements solutions using internal resources.
- Verifies that maintenance procedures and processes comply with all applicable safety, health, and environmental regulations.
- Provides project management support through coordination and oversight of internal and external resources.
- Designs, delivers, and facilitates safety training programs in line with AIT corporate policy, processes and procedures.
- Fosters a culture of excellence by monitoring & reinforcing high performance standards and maintaining a robust EHS Management System.
- Acts as the AIT representative for site Safety Committee meetings, contributes to safety topics, and actively participates in workplace safety observations.
- Conducts thorough, objective incident investigations including documentation and root cause analysis.
- Develops and implements audit tools to identify process deviations and non-conformances, driving corrective actions to ensure standards are met.
- Partners with customer departments to identify EHS issues related to standards compliance and implements corrective actions for non-conformances.
- Leads pre-task risk assessments for non-routine work activities.
- Reviews routine work and preventive maintenance tasks to ensure alignment with safety best practices.
- Compiles safety KPIs and produces actionable reports that enable Site Leadership to drive behavioral improvements.
- Collaborates with Corporate EHS and Site Leadership to coordinate environmental compliance activities and prevention initiatives.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education and Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree Business or Engineering.
- Five years of related experience and/or training in an equivalent position.
- Experience working with CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) preferred.
- Six Sigma / Lean Manufacturing experience is a plus.
- Additional safety certificates or credentials are preferred.
Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.
- Strong communication skills to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries and issues.
- Solid understanding of EHS compliance (including but not limited to OSHA and local site requirements) and best practices.
- Demonstrated leadership experience or leadership capability through projects.
- Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.
- Can multitask and manage multiple large to small projects in a cross functional environment.
- Break down a complex concept so that is easily understood by the target audience.
- Take personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results.
- Achieve thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
- Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
- Understand how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.
- Ability to interpret regulations to ensure compliance. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
- Ensure that decisions are made based on policies, rules and organizational directives to solve emerging problems.
- Able to manage own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals
Work Conditions
Environment Type
- Indoors. Production Environment. Temperature Controlled. Unless products and/or equipment is located outdoors.
Exposure Types
- Bloodborne pathogens
- Small and/or enclosed spaces
- Cuts and/or burns
- Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil
- Metal shavings
- Noisy environment
- Commercial chemicals
- Hazardous conditions
- Wet, damp, and/or humid conditions
Work Hours
- Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines or emergent conditions.
Travel Requirements
- This position may involve travel up to 35% of the time.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
- Prolonged periods working on feet, using tools, and performing repetitive actions that entail frequent bending and stooping.
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
- Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.