Environmental Health and Safety Leader Job at Owens Corning (Summit)

Job Description

The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Leader is a critical member of the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) providing guidance and coaching in the areas of safety and environmental stewardship to all plant members. The EHS Leader must maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, positively influence employees, and engage them in all aspects of safety and environmental processes. This position leads the development, implementation, and evaluation of critical safety and environmental processes, programs, and procedures to achieve a zero-injury environment. The successful candidate provides leadership and applies technical abilities to engage employees at all levels of the organization to sustain world-class safety and environmental processes.

Job Responsibility

Live the Safety stand, adhere to safety, health, and environmental responsibilities
Transform plant safety and environmental performance to world-class levels that align with division and Owens Corning corporate goals
Build and foster a safety culture among all plant employees
Reduce the plant’s environmental footprint in the community
Support and help build a culture of wellness
Advise and guide the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) in developing a risk-ranked strategic plan, prioritize and advocate capital/resource requests, and advise the leadership team on all aspects of environmental requirements and responsibilities
Implement a personal safety action plan
Manages Plant Safety metrics – RIR, first aids, near misses, SAFE and Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) scores
Manages Plant Environmental metrics
Coach, mentor, and re-direct personnel in the plant to develop extraordinary Safety leaders
Grow and develop the direct reports, as well as the safety teams within the workforce
Maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, influence employee and supervisory behaviors, and fully engage employees in the safety process
Enroll and engage the entire workforce to build a powerful safety culture
Assess effectiveness of plant leadership from an EH&S perspective and provide developmental guidance as required
Develop safety programs and incident tracking systems to drive insights on injury prevention and ways to engineer out safety risk
Lead a safety committee of plant employees to create a safe and environmentally conscious workforce
Start and lead Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) EHS programs in support of the overall plant strategy
Develop and implement training programs in a coordinated effort with appropriate plant personnel
Continually reinforce the Company’s stand on safety
Develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of all critical EH&S processes, programs, and procedures
Set and accomplished critical metrics regularly to ensure continuous improvement in the processes that lead to an engaged safety culture on the floor
Recognize employee accomplishments and contributions
Ensure regulatory compliance of all environmental permits and processes
Foster positive relationships with governmental agencies and work as a partner to improve plant
Create, maintain, and oversee the compliance calendar for all regulatory requirements
Effectively address enforcement actions from local, state, or federal agencies
Provide expert technical support in identifying, and resolving, critical regulatory issues
Ensure adherence to corporate policies and programs
Maintain the corporate management systems
Address deficiencies in internal EHS audits
Continuously elevates the customer perspective of self and others by knowing our products, manufacturing, and selling processes

Requirements

Undergraduate degree in any field related to EH&S, such as hygiene engineering, science, or equivalent
6 years of progressive manufacturing safety experience
3 years of experience working in an industrial or manufacturing environment preferred
Professional certification as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), strongly preferred
Experience with Illinois-specific environmental and safety regulations strongly preferred
Experience in leading, assessing, and developing talent to deliver results
Strong working knowledge of environmental, health, and safety compliance law and industrial hygiene
Ability to identify hazards, critical process, and system needs and implement appropriate action plans
Ability to establish agreement and consensus with management
Ability to effectively engage employees is critical
Ability to initiate and lead cross-functional teams and management / union committees to achieve objectives
Adept at developing and delivering safety training
Skillful in driving and managing change
Ability to integrate resources across the organization
Engages and cares for others, starting with safety
Achieves results, individually and through teams
Enjoys working with people and in teams
Takes business risks, grows from failures, celebrates successes
Demonstrates strategic planning and thinking
Utilize basic computer skills
ability to work in SAP, Lotus Notes, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Experience with Dakota EHS and Cority software programs, strongly preferred
Log into and navigate Owens Corning Learning portal to complete required online training routinely

Nice to have

Experience with Dakota EHS and Cority software programs
Professional certification as Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
Experience with Illinois-specific environmental and safety regulations

What we offer

insurance (medical/dental/vision/life/disability/supplemental offerings)
401k (company contribution regardless of employee participation – plus match)
liberal paid time off (vacation, personal floating and standard holidays)
Employee Assistance Services
Stock Purchase Program

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