EHS Specialist - Southwire Company

Southwire Job Description

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist is responsible for environmental, health and safety compliance and training and program management for the Southwire Monroe Township, NJ Customer Service Center. Provides regulatory expertise to ensure regulatory requirements applicable to the facility are known.  Plans, organizes, and implements environmental, health and safety activities at the facility and assists in monitoring all facility activities to ensure that regulatory and company requirements are met. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support a ONE Southwire approach to achieving company Culture of Zero and Sustainability (Living Well and Growing Green) performance objectives through effective collaboration with corporate and divisional EHS staff. 
• Lead efforts to enhance hazard recognition, promote injury prevention, drive employee engagement, and improve safe behaviors at assigned facilities. 
• Work with company leadership, facility personnel, and EHS personnel to develop and implement effective EHS strategies. 
• Support site managers, Team Members, and safety teams on initiatives and programs for compliance with all federal, state, and local safety, health and environmental regulations. 
• Manage incident reporting process and support site personnel in investigating incidents and injury-free events, implementing corrective actions from internal and external audits, and communicating with regulatory agencies, as required. 
• Develop capital project requests for machine guarding, ergonomics, dock safety, and other hazard mitigation projects. 
• Help drive Team Member engagement to create and foster a proactive, empowered safety culture. 
• Establish and report site key EHS performance metrics to ensure scorecard objectives are met. 
• Coordinate process improvements that will reduce injuries and incidents and minimize employee exposures and environmental impacts. 
• Perform other activities as required to support overall plant EHS and training effectiveness. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Science discipline or other program applicable to the health, safety and environmental fields are required.
• Requires minimum of 3 years of experience working in industrial health, safety, and environmental activities.
• Working knowledge of the VPP process and various safety regulations or standards (OSHA, NFPA, ANSI, NEC, etc…)
• Professional certification is desired.
• Ability to work non-traditional hours or shifts.
• Must have excellent verbal and written skills along with exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel 25-50% 
   

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