Senior Environmental Health and Safety Manager at The Planet Group

Our client is looking for a Senior Environmental Health and Safety manager, you will provide leadership and coaching to promote a Zero Harm Safety culture to create a workplace free of recognized hazards, promote safe work behaviors, and foster a lean safety across the company. They are a leading global provider of reusable and single-use thermal packaging solutions for the shipment of temperature-sensitive material, principally serving the pharmaceutical, biotech, health care and medical device industries. With more than 50 years of experience in ensuring product safety in transit, our client has built a reputation as the industry's most innovative and reliable provider to the largest global life sciences companies and has had a history of vigorous growth.

Must Haves

• Must be a self-starter, don’t want to hold someone’s hand
• Confident
• Come from heavily regulated industry (manufacturing, food, life sciences, etc)
   

Essential Functional Area of Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Operations, Human Resources, Quality, and other functional areas to develop the EHS strategy for a growing and global organization.
• Plan, develop, and implement effective safety training for new employee orientation and annual required training.
• Assist in conducting training for employees and contractors regarding applicable EHS programs and procedures.
• Identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices in the workplace through process safety reviews (PSR) and job safety analysis (JSA).
• Conduct EHS audits, create reports, and collaborate with cross functional leaders to drive closure of audit findings.
• Oversee EHS incident investigations and root cause, corrective action activities.
• Maintain knowledge of new regulations and standards as they are introduced and/or change within industry.
• Track, report, and communicate progress regarding EHS initiatives.
• Perform risk assessment of all incoming new materials, develop SDSs for CCT products and manage/maintain the on-line SDS platform.
• Manage and coordinate all hazardous/non-hazardous waste disposal programs.
• Coordinate all regulatory reporting (EPA, DEP, etc.) for CCT.
• Define resource requirements to support EHS strategy.
• Complete ESG surveys.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
  • Liaise with external health & safety consultants, clients and State and Federal agencies.
  • Any other reasonable duties which may be required by the Health and Safety Director.

 
Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field with 7-10 years of EHS experience.
• Associate degree with minimum 12 years direct EHS experience.
• Working knowledge of and proven experience in OSHA and EPA compliance in a manufacturing setting.
• Working knowledge of Quality Management System standards (i.e., ISO 9001:2015, AS9100, IATF 16949).
• Proven experience as an “influence” leader.
• Proven EHS auditing experience.
• Motivated self-started with ability to manage multiple projects with minimal supervision.
• Skilled problem solver, specifically related to EHS issues and 3rdparty audit findings.
• Ability to multitask and collaborate with associates at all levels of the organization (up, down and across the organization).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to be physically active (lifting, standing, bending, reaching, etc.) and ability to lift to 50 lbs. occasionally and less weight frequently.
• Ability to travel domestically – 20-30%; International travel may be required.