EHS Leader - Plant Site

Company Description

Veolia is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Water Tech brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Become the driving force behind a safer, healthier, and more environmentally conscious workplace at our thriving 400+ employee Minnetonka site. As the EHS&S leader, you'll spearhead cutting-edge strategies and innovative programs designed to protect our most valuable asset – our people. Your mission? To create a workplace where risks are minimized, compliance is second nature, and a culture of safety flourishes.

In this pivotal role, you'll craft and implement forward-thinking Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EHS&S) initiatives while ensuring seamless regulatory compliance and providing expert technical support. You'll deliver engaging training sessions that empower employees at all levels, champion a positive safety culture that inspires and motivates, and work tirelessly towards the ultimate goal: an injury-free and healthy work environment.

Join us in shaping a workplace where safety isn't just a priority – it's a way of life. Your expertise and passion for EHS&S will make a tangible difference in the lives of hundreds of employees every day. Are you ready to lead the charge towards a safer, more sustainable future?

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively designs, develops, and implements strategies, policies, programs, processes, and systems that ensure EH&S compliance, enhance performance, and drive core values and results to an operational level. 

• Gathers and analyzes EHS data, develop goals to meet targets, manage scorecards, databases, and dashboards for EHS related programs and metrics

• Develops effective communication processes to make safety priorities and performance visible.

• Analyzes data to proactively assess health and safety challenges from risk assessment methods and develop action plans to ensure all significant risks are controlled and managed as part of the operational controls defined within the EHS management system and procedures.

• Provides regulatory assistance, technical support, and training for the site.

• Responds to safety and environmental compliance issues, enforcement actions, emergencies, and changes in operations or security, coordinating with corporate resources as required.

• Leads the deployment, application, renewal, and reporting process for environmental permitting and plans (EPA, MPCA, SPCC, etc.)

• Conducts and/or coordinates EHS audits, incident investigations, emergency response plans, ergonomics, PPE programs, machine guarding, management of change, industrial hygiene, and other EHS programs.

• Logs and tracks audit recommendations to completion and assists all levels in developing corrective actions for audit findings.

• Reviews capital projects for safety and environmental impacts and permitting requirements

• Maintains expert knowledge of existing and proposed regulations including chemical management and Hazardous Waste

• Manage, supervise, train, coach and mentor direct reports and support team members involved in delivering the EHS programs.

• Supports the Safety Committee

• Works to reduce workers’ compensation risks and costs.

• Serves as member of the facility’s emergency response and crisis management team, during times of serious incidents, by directing efforts when requested, offering recommendations, interpreting regulations, and coordinating communication with government regulators or agencies

Qualifications

Core Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience required

• 10+ years of EHS leadership experience (manufacturing industry preferred)

• Experience as manager of complex EHS performance, compliance permitting, regulatory issues, projects, and programs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Ability to manage and prioritize a highly variable team workload generated by user, developer, and project support requests, and effectively communicates results to both team and users.

• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills.

• Subject matter expert in application monitoring, configuration, and security capabilities.

• Effectively trains on high-risk management standards and other Veolia Water Tech EHS requirements.

• Identifies and communicates opportunities for wellbeing. 

• Knowledge of procedures used to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control physical, chemical, and ergonomic hazard

• Experience with new manufacturing operations with chemical management

Additional Information

Why You’ll Love Working Here!

• In diversity lies strength - We strive to be a workplace that is inclusive and empowers people to contribute their best
• Recognition and rewards for your hard work and achievements
• Opportunity for new challenges - We are growing and love to promote from within
• An excellent leadership team and a collaborative culture that values innovation 
• At all levels of the organization, we recognize talent and want to help you build your sustainable career!

At Veolia Water Tech, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Because our people are our greatest assets, we also offer competitive compensation and benefits that include:

• Compensation - The salary range is tied to the market for similarly benchmarked roles. The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. Depending upon all the preceding considerations for the final selected individual candidate, the offer may be lower or higher than the stated range: $140,000 - $150,000 annually 
• Annual Incentive Plan - 15%
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Starting Day 1! 
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off 
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Flexible Spending & Health Saving Accounts
• AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

****Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity****

Veolia Water Tech does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting firms. All vendors must have a current and fully executed MSA on file before submitting candidates. Any unsolicited resumes and candidate profiles will be deemed the property of Veolia Water Tech, and no fee will be due.

As an inclusive company, Veolia Water Tech is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.