Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Senior Manager of EHS

Northern, Mississippi

- Relocation assistance is offered for this position

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Brief Overview

Responsibilities:

• Creates and drives the execution of the safety strategy for the Mississippi campus to achieve the vision.
• Provides guidance and EHS leadership to peers, direct reports and the Mississippi employees.
• Engages and develops team of hourly and management EHS professionals.
• Identifies common and more complex safety/health/environmental hazards inherent in the organization's operations and establishes guidelines for protection from those hazards.
• Ensures EHS training is completed to comply with regulatory requirements or in support of facility, division, or enterprise objectives.
• Audits safety/health/environmental programs for compliance with company standards, government regulations, and adequacy relative to local conditions.
• Monitors periodic performance reports for trends and conditions, alerts line management to problems and makes recommendations for improvements

Requirements:

• Degree or equivalent job-related experience (preferably in EHS or related field)
• Demonstrated success in leading, developing engaging an inclusive team
• Proven ability to set and implement a strategic vision
• Professional certification in a related field is desired
• Experience with U.S. environmental regulations
• Sustainability: Knowledge of sustainability strategy; ability to integrate sustainability into the overall business strategy of the organization to build a sustainable business model.
• Contributes to timely and accurate data collection and analysis at the corporate and site level.
• Describes the basic concepts and objectives of Sustainability.
• Supports research and general administrative requirements for our sustainability efforts.
• Understands various sustainability practices adopted by the organization.
• Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
• Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models.
• Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools.
• Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms.
• Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices.
• Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business.
• Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks.
• Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.