Corporate Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Summary Champion Home Builders, Inc. is a world modular builder seeking an EHS Manager. This position reports to the Director of Risk Management. We currently have a remote opportunity reporting to our headquarters in Troy, MI.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

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  Develop, implement and maintain safety and environmental programs in compliance with local, state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and EPA regulations.
• Participates in planning and implementing changes in production methods, equipment in compliance with safety and environmental standards.
• Inspects organization facilities to detect existing or potential accident and health hazards, determines corrective or preventative measures where indicated, and follows up to ensure measures have been implemented.
• Educate employees in safety and environmental requirements, safety processes and procedures.
• Reviews incident investigations, reports and complete follow uproot cause remediation.
• Creates and leads safety and environmental training.
• Coordinates the industrial hygiene monitoring for noise, air, vapor, etc.
• Obtains, maintains and ensures compliance with environmental approvals permits, plans, and reporting for RCRA, DOT, SWP2, SPCC and EPA.
• Understands all safety and environmental hazards of chemicals, raw materials that are handled/stored at Champion facilities.
• Reviews and monitors current SDS's and reviews SDS's of new chemicals introduced to Champion.
• Monitors and advises Plant Safety Committees, Safety Team and Responder Teams

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in safety, environmental, industrial hygiene or other related area.
• 5 or more years EHS experience in manufacturing environment, wood working preferred.
• Be able to travel 75% and ability to traverse through manufacturing plants.
• Manufacturing equipment risk assessment and hazard recognition experience required.
• Must be proficient with OSHA, NFPA, DOT, EPA and applicable ANSI standards as related to wood working.
• Familiar and have experience with OSHA citation and remediation process.
• Familiar with EPA, RCRA and other environmental standards as related to manufacturing
• Professional certification in safety or environmental field preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with Dupont behavior-based STOP program.
• Effective communication skills and ability to openly seek information and apply it in an appropriate fashion. Written, verbal, report writing and group facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with operations, engineering, and internal and external resources.
• Bi-lingual in Spanish a plus.
• Effective interpersonal skills to work in a team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems.
• Schedule flexibility to meet the needs of manufacturing
• Positive, solution focused approach.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Outlook.

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 frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.