HSE and Compliance Manager

HSE and Compliance Manager (Open)

Location: Troy, MI - Filling industrial, Ann Arbor, MI - Filling industrial, Ferndale, MI - Filling industrial, Lansing, MI - Empire - Filling industrial, Northwood, OH - Retail shop, Toledo, OH - Filling industrial, Wayne, MI - Filling industrial

Within the framework of HSEQ, create Health & Safety awareness, directly work with the Operations in order to provide awareness and support of Health & Safety. Through the creation of programs, policies and trainings they develop the required knowledge and skills in order to remain compliant and operate in a safe manner for our customer, our community and associates.

Champions and promotes a strong safety and compliance culture implementing programs to ensure associate safety and company regulatory compliance.

Manages, delivers, conducts training and performs audits on Airgas various standard operating procedures (SOP) including the Safety Manual, Medical Gas Manual and other pertinent corporate compliance manuals and initiatives. May receive direction on tasks from supervisor or other managers.

Represents the company on regulatory issues with government entities.

Provides leadership and guidance on Airgas's incident review committee.

Provides analysis of significant risk data to management by evaluating the effectiveness of initiatives through safety assessment by compiling and interpreting data to identify gaps.

Develops and implements action plans as necessary to mitigate risks.

Conducts incident investigations in conjunction with Branch and / or Plant Management to partner with insurance carriers to manage claims.

Participates in activities designed to empower employees to lead safety efforts within the organization.

Participates in a leadership capacity on the AERO (the Airgas Emergency Response Operations) Team.

Other projects and duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related degree field required. In lieu of degree, consideration for up to 4 years of additional related experience may be accepted.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of related safety experience within a production and distribution environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CSP (Certified Safety Professional) certification preferred.
• Must have excellent organizational, written and oral communication, listening and presentation skills including the ability to effectively present and discuss technical information and respond to questions from employees, government agency representatives, and customers.
• Computer literate with Intermediate knowledge of MS Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form.
• Ability to define and solve problems dealing with a variety of both abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume. Ability to apply basic algebra and geometry.
• Employee will regularly be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• Employee will regularly be required to traverse through office and/or manufacturing locations.
• Employee will frequently be required to actively listen and exchange information.
• Employee will be required to observe and assess information.
• Requires use of computer, telephone and operation of a motor vehicle.
• Regularly move and/or transport up to 60 pounds and move up to 125 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment.
• Frequent regional travel (up to 60% of work time).
• Minimal overnight travel.
• Must have reliable transportation, current driver's license, minimum liability insurance as required by state of vehicle registration.
• Job requires visitation to various Airgas and customer sites, which have varying environments/conditions, layouts, and accessibility.