Environmental Health and Safety Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION

Job Title: Environmental, Health and Safety Manager

Responsible to: President

Responsible for: None

Location: Mooresville, North Carolina and Tulsa, Oklahoma

Work Times: 7:00am to 3:30pm (Monday to Friday).

A degree of flexibility will be needed at peak periods.

Candidate will be expected to travel

Salary: Salaried, full time

Summary and Purpose

Established in 2009 in Sleaford, UK, SHD remains committed to providing exceptional levels of service and flexibility coupled with a wealth of experience within the composite industry. SHD is at the leading edge of advanced composites technology and manufacture a wide range of thermoset prepregs, which include carbon, glass, aramid, natural and hybrid fabrics whilst also offering a toll impregnation service. With the recent exciting acquisition by Cambium Biomaterials, Inc. the Company is committed to rapidly accelerating product and footprint development and growth.

The purpose of this role is to ensure the compliance of all SHD materials is adhered to alongside relevant EH&S, AS9100 and ISO9001 standards and to support the continuing development of safe working practices in our North American facilities

Person Specification

In this role, you will support the Group Health and Safety Manager with the daily local responsibilities of health and safety for the company and be responsible for training internal staff in compliance with the company’s training plan. You will be responsible for coaching of staff to a high level of EHS competency related to day-to-day manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

Risk reduction

• Ensure the completion and review of all OSHA Risk Assessments.
• Responsible for the completion of Risk Assessments for all company work activities/equipment and monthly inspections for review with the Group Health & Safety Manager

• Ensure waste streams are managed effectively and waste is organized, labelled, and removed in accordance with local legislation.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of legislation and Codes of Practice as they affect the Company’s activities and keep the Company informed in respect of best current practice, hazard recognition and changes in legislation.
• Immediately contact Senior Management if situations are found that require immediate rectification or the stopping of any operation.
• Conduct Risk Assessments for all employee activities and develop Safe Systems of Work to ensure any residual risk is reduced to as low as reasonably practicable. Ensuring that any actions from the risk assessments and Safe Systems of Work are implemented and the information shared amongst employees.
• It is the responsibility of the Health and Safety Manager to make sure that contractors/sub-contractors and their employees have been provided information on Health and safety risks they may face; Measures in place to deal with those risks; SHD emergency procedures. SHD safe working procedures and site rules.

Procedural compliance

• Working in accordance with Company’s established Quality and Health & Safety procedures at all times

Reporting

• Coordinate environmental reporting per local legislation.
• Execution of State-mandated Wastewater reporting and training per local legislation.
• Ensure that statutory reports are made to the relevant statutory authority for incidents in accordance with the OSHA requirements.
• Circulating information to the Company, as and when required.

Staff awareness and training

• Ensure that all levels of staff receive adequate and appropriate Environmental, Health and Safety training and ensure training records are maintained for all staff.
• Ensure the appropriate first aid arrangements are implemented including a sufficient number of first aiders and carrying out regular checks of the contents of first aid kits.
• Ensuring all new employees in the company are provided with a copy of the Health and Safety Policy, receive induction training, and are issued with Personal Protective Equipment as required and their personal responsibilities are understood.

Investigate and Improve

• To carry out investigations, involving managers and supervisors of the area, into all accident and near miss incidents and record the findings and action plans on the relevant forms. Implement improvements resulting from such reviews in a timely manner.
• To highlight areas where coaching/training/certification is required to meet the standards imposed by Legislation.
• Undertake periodic safety inspections of the workplace and bring to the attention of others, any matter where failure to comply with statutory regulations has occurred.
• Investigate any near misses, accidents or ill health involving an employee, contractor or sub-contractor.
• Work with Site Leadership, HR to coordinate disciplinary action against, and suitable coaching for, staff who fail to follow company rules, as appropriate.

Teamwork

• Attend health and safety committee meetings.
• Escalate through the reporting structure any health and safety concerns which they are not able to resolve.
• Demonstrate strong leadership of health and safety by setting a good example and actively following all safety measures, addressing any breaches immediately.

Other

• Undertake any other duties from time to time as can be reasonably requested by the company.

Skills and Ability

• Self-motivated and able to prioritize own workload.
• Must have flexibility and adaptability for changing workloads
• Excellent organization and time management skills, prioritizing workload and working under pressure
• High attention to detail.
• Reliable, dependable, and well organized.
• Capable of working to agreed procedures, and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent written and verbal skills including being able to read, write and speak English
• Creative thinker.
• IT literacy with excellent knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Publisher.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Coaching ability.
• Used to working in a collaborative team.
• Experience in the Risk Assessment process.
• Experience in completing OSHA assessments and the review of all risk assessments.
• Freedom to travel regularly within the Americas. Some international travel may also be required.

Qualifications (Minimum qualification required is one of the below)

• OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 Certified.
• Occupational Health Degree.
• Chemistry degree.
• 3 Years of experience in H & S.

Work Environment / Essential Physical demands

• Must be able to work weekends and extra hours if required
• Must be able to sit and work at a computer up to 8 hours a day
• Must be able to walk/stand/ up to 3 hours a day
• Must be able to push/pull/lift to 15 lbs
• Must be able to use hands and fingers for fine manipulation and keyboarding as needed
• Must have good vision and auditory senses
• Must be able to follow all safety and company policies and procedures
• Must be able to wear all required PPE
• Must be able to work in a typical manufacturing environment on concrete floors

Attitude

• Passion for SHD Materials Composite Materials Ltd.
• Continuous improvement approach.
• Friendly, flexible team player with a can-do-attitude.

Our employees are very important to us, and job satisfaction is of paramount importance.

SHD Composites is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. SHD Composites is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.

Compensation details: 90000-100000 Yearly Salary

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