Senior Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist

Overview

For 140 years, A.W. Chesterton has been an innovator and a knowledge provider for our industrial partners around the globe. From our ground-breaking split seal technologies, to our cutting-edge packing and lubricant solutions, we are continually focused on new ways to bring solutions to our customers, while also celebrating our own rich history and our unique place in the sealing industry.

Our safety department represents a small but mighty team that manages our day-to-day workplace safety, our health and environmental compliance programs, and our global product compliance. Formal programs, extensive training, and a year-over-year reduction in workplaces incidents are testament to the tremendous impact this group continues to have on our operations. If you want to be part of a team who has frontline visibility and impact each day, check out what working for Chesterton safety has to offer!

Our benefits offering include:

• “Work Today, get paid tomorrow” - withdraw up to 50% of your earned daily wages the next day after you work rather than waiting for pay day!
• Chesterton Student Loan Repayment Program
• BCBS Medical Coverage
• Delta Dental
• 401K savings plan with a Chesterton contribution
• PTO including vacation sick, time, 11 paid holidays, and paid to time off to volunteer for causes
• Vision insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
• HSA & FSA options to cover additional medical costs
• Parental leave for moms and dads to be
• Hiring referral bonuses (up to $3,000 for select roles)
• A host of other fringe benefits including legal services, pet insurance, Chesterton relief fund for employees in need, and more!

Job Summary:

The Sr. environmental health safety (EHS) specialist is responsible for developing and implementing environmental, health and safety programs for the company's workforce and overall work environment. Their responsibilities revolve around conducting regular inspections to ensure compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations, devising preventive measures, spearheading training and investigating workplace accidents and identify causes to ensure that it will not happen again. Furthermore, as the Groveland EH&S site leader, it is essential they lead and encourage the team to reach all established EH&S goals embedded in the Groveland Operations SQDIP Plan-to-Win strategies. This position has leadership responsibilities associated with implementing site EH&S policies and safety regulation and all associated activities to ensure compliance. Duties also include managing our waste management, chemical management, air emissions management and emergency management.

Job Model:  On-Site

All fully remote positions will require you to travel on site 2-4 times per month depending upon business needs at your own expense.

Hybrid positions will require employees to work both on-site and remote each week under a schedule that has been determined and agreed upon by you and your manager.

On-Site positions will require employees to work on-site for each of their scheduled shifts.

Responsibilities:

• Manage Groveland campus cross-functional teams/committees in development and implementation of robust proactive health and safety programs.

• Applied focus on achieving the highest levels of EH&S performance through behavior-base initiatives, auditing, mentoring and expeditiously implementing change. Be the Groveland campus EH&S subject matter expert and change agent.

• Ensure ISO 14001 certification, developing & training employees. In addition, maintains and develops metrics and supporting targets for all EHS programs in alignment with Operations SQDIP Plan-to-Win strategies.

• Facilitate the Groveland campus to be a pro-active leader in Environmental, Health and Safety regulatory programs and compliance.

• Leads the Groveland campus in the development and ensures compliance with global and/or local EH&S policies, standards and procedures.

• Participates as an evacuation emergency coordinator and first responder to medical emergencies. Additionally, updates emergency action plan as needed and ensures appropriate training is provided.

• Assists in the management of occupational health programs related to hearing conservation, personal protection equipment (PPE) and bloodborne pathogens (First Aid Teams).

• Maintains Lock-out, Tag-out (LOTO) program working directly with operations, maintenance and contractors.

• Leads investigation of environmental and work-related injuries in conjunction with supervisors/managers, facilitate action planning to prevent re-occurrence.

• Maintain hazardous waste program requirements including container labeling, weekly inspections and profiling of waste streams.

• Supports and maintains assigned responsibilities in connection to our Chesterton Quality System (CQS) EHS Program.

• Works with various departments across multiple organizational levels to support all regulatory asks.

• Provide regulatory support by communicating emerging chemical management regulatory developments that may impact products and services.

• Identifies, assesses and controls environmental risks.

• Maintains all regulatory documentation.

• Other projects as required.

Complexity of Duties:

• Woks under minimal supervision.

• Handles moderate to complex issues.

• Position requires the ability to prioritize duties.

• Contacts are primarily within the organization at the sales force and middle management level.

• External contacts are primarily with regulatory agencies and customers.

Essential Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, verbal and written communication skills at all levels throughout the workplace.

• Must be a self-starter and team player with a positive attitude and professional demeanor.

• Strong presentation skills

• Capable of interfacing with a range of departments including R&D, customer service, production, product management, sales and logistics to gather and/or communicate information to support product compliance and safety.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required, related technical discipline preferred

• 4 – 6 years related experience

• Knowledgeable of federal and state environmental regulations

• OSHA-10 Hour Certification

• Experience with risk and statistical analysis

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Environmental, Health and Safety concepts a plus.

• Excellent organization skills and the ability to follow-up with project completion effectively and independently.

• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, including telephone skills.

• Strong grammar skills. Strong attention to detail, ability to proofread and check various documents.

• Working knowledge of PC software Windows/Microsoft Office preferable.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to sit/work at a computer terminal. Moderate noise (ie: computer printers, traffic) exists daily in the work environment.

All of A.W. Chesterton Company employment is contingent upon successfully passing a background check and the respective medical surveillance requirements.

Chesterton is an equal opportunity employer  M/F/V/D

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