Senior EHS Manager

Yaskawa Drives & Motion; Town of Columbus (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Yaskawa Drives & Motion is seeking a Senior Manager, Environmental Health & Safety to lead and advance EHS programs across YAI and its subsidiaries, driving risk reduction and regulatory compliance.

The role requires developing location-specific EHS policies, managing all risk and communications, and using metrics to continuously improve environmental, health, and safety performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in safety with 2+ years overseeing a safety program for a mid-size manufacturer.
• BA/BS degree required.
• Experience in light assembly production environment.
• Proven ability to manage industrial safety programs, loss control, workers' comp, OSHA regs.
• Experience implementing ergonomic programs and running online training with change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve EHS programs at YAI and subsidiaries.
• Develop and implement location-specific EHS policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with environmental permits, training, ergonomic programs.
• Set strategy, manage risk, and drive continuous EHS improvement using metrics.

Skills

Safety management

Ergonomics

Training

Change management

Online training

Leadership

Education

BA/BS

Job description

Yaskawa is searching for a Senior Manager, Environmental Health & Safety to lead manage and provide improvement strategies for all EHS activities at YAI and its subsidiaries. This role will optimize the performance of EHS initiatives, identify, manage, direct, and audit the systems required to limit all forms of risk leading to environmental mishaps, compliance violations, job-related injury or illness, property damage, and bad public relations. Along with creating and expanding an EHS strategy that when executed will drive site locations in becoming environmentally sustainable enterprise. Develop and implement location specific EHS policies, procedures, and programs. Ensure compliance related activities such as environmental permit requirements, EHS training, Ergonomic programs, are robust and maintained.

This role also involves setting strategy, managing all key components of risk, communications at all levels, using metrics and program results to adjust efforts and work for continuous improvement of YAI's EHS levels. \

The ideal candidate will have:

• 5 years or more in safety field with 2 or more years oversight of total safety management program for mid-size manufacturer
• BA/BS
• Experience in a light assembly production environment
• Experience in managing and administrating a comprehensive industrial safety program, loss control, workers' compensation insurance, Environmental and OSHA regulations
• Experience in implementing Ergonomic programs
• Experience in training work forces
• Experience in developing training programs, especially on-line with user interaction, change management, and feedback.

Some key advantages of working at Yaskawa include:

• career opportunities in diverse areas
• a highly competitive benefit package
• a generous 401(K) plan
• profit sharing
• corporate wide bonus plan
• educational assistance program offering up to $10,000 a year for graduate courses

Additionalinformation regarding the benefit package can be found at the following link.

https://www.yaskawa.com/about-us/careers/benefits