Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Join the GDI Family!

One provider. One solution. All your facility maintenance services.

GDI provides unequalled capability and expertise in the facility services sector across Canada and the United States. Our broad knowledge and competencies in integrated facility services will contribute to the success of our business partners. With nearly a century of experience, our excellent service delivery distinguishes us from other facility services providers. Our team of over 30,000 individuals offer innovative cleaning techniques, best-in-class capabilities, and unrivaled experience.

Summary:

Responsible for promoting GDI’s Safety initiatives, goals, and objectives to ensure compliance with corporate, legal and client specific requirements across assigned territory.

Essential Duties:

• Provide safety training for employees on policies, regulations, and procedures.
• Advise the VP Risk & Safety as well as Operations Leaders on safety issues and compliance in specific projects and operations.
• Maintain accurate and current records in accordance with guidelines.
• Manage incident reports, workers compensation cases, metrics, and injury case studies to institute changes that lead to a safer environment.
• Enforce Health & Safety regulations.
• Perform safety meetings, safety conference calls, and tool box talks to the appropriate employee level.
• Perform Job hazard analysis’, safety audits, inspections and behavioral observations.
• Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
• Interpret and enforce company policies and procedures for workers.
• Observe work and monitor workers to ensure that operators conform to environmental, health and safety standards.
• Conduct employee training in safety policy and procedures.
• Confer with management to resolve environmental, health and safety violations, hazards, risks or work practices.
• Gather appropriate metrics and calculate labor and safety metrics requirements and specifications, using standard formulas.
• Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve awareness, safe production methods, equipment, or efficiency while maintaining.
• Requisition safety materials, supplies, or PPE for workers.
• Recommend or execute personnel actions, such as evaluations, or disciplinary counseling or warnings concerning safety policies.

Qualifications:

• Degree or certificate in environmental health, safety or business or related field
• 3+ years of EHS experience required
• In-depth knowledge of OSHA Federal requirements and Michigan OSHA (MIOSHA)
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and teach a team
• Great attention to detail
• Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to explain technical concepts in simple terms
• Excellent organizational skills

GDI Services Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

#BU1