Manager, Environmental Health & Safety

Description

SUMMARY

The Regional EHS Manager provides full regional support and leadership to the Southern Region sites. The ideal candidate thrives in a changing and dynamic environment and possess the ability to direct, plan, establish, and implement a variety of programs and initiatives to assure the highest possible degree of safety for employees, contractors, visitors, plant facilities, and equipment. This position takes a leadership role in the implementation of activities and best practices that focus on the prevention of pollution and incidents while creating a safe working environment for all employees, contractors, and visitors to the sites. The position requires an experienced professional with excellent communication, organizational and multi-tasking skills.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Develop, implement, and manage the necessary training programs and systems to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and company requirements.
• Leads environmental aspects of company operations, such as, compliance, reporting, monitoring, remediation, and environmental permitting functions.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with regulatory officials to ensure good working relationships between Sharps and the various governmental agencies.
• Responsibilities also include EHS communication, the sharing of best practices, learning from EHS incidents, leverage of EHS training programs and the sharing of EHS experience and knowledge across the company.
• Monitors and analyzes EHS policies and regulations that affect the company and its customers.
• Actively drive efforts to continually improve the EHS performance by conducting audits, inspections, safety walk-arounds and preparing relevant data for management review
• Take a proactive leadership role in identifying and resolving environmental and safety issues that may arise.
• Audit, monitor, track and report compliance with state, federal, and other regulatory requirements; managing and reducing compliance risks.
• Develop, implement, and manage the necessary training programs and systems to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and company requirements.
• Collaborate with local management on investigations for near misses, injuries, and incidents.
• Manage suppliers, vendors, and consultants, including direct supervision as needed.
• Provide guidance to employees on the organization’s compliance policies and programs, and educate staff on applicable compliance rules, regulations, and best practices.
• Stay abreast with the US Health, Safety and Compliance laws, regulations, and enforcement environment, and understand how they impact the organization.
• Profile infectious waste according to applicable regulatory requirements, using SDS sheets, GHS HazCom criteria, etc. to ensure proper containment, storage, transport, and treatment (per CDC, NIH, and OSHA; and DOT Hazard Class, UN No., Waste Codes, properties, and characteristics). 
• Perform drug formulary audits to assist customers in proper identification and segregation of pharmaceutical waste.
• Report compliance issues and collaborate with local management to identify CAPA plans.
• Provide timely and accurate reports when required. 

Requirements

Requirements (Education and Experience):

• Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree in a safety or business discipline required.
• Must have 7 years related experience in a manufacturing and/or processing environment, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience in conducting compliance audits (EPA, DOT, OSHA).
• Excellent interpersonal, planning, organizational, time management, and communication skills
• Ability to influence others through coaching and behavior modeling by being clear, open, fair, honest, supplying resources as needed, and listening effectively.
• Possess general knowledge and proficiency in general business and the ability to use computer applications, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, databases, and email programs.
• Possess the ability to read and analyze OSHA, DOT, EPA and DEA regulations/guidance.
• Extensive knowledge regarding DEA’s Ultimate User disposal program regulations and requirements.
• Extensive knowledge about DEA’s inventory medication disposal regulations and requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of each state’s regulated medical and pharmaceutical regulations.
• Capability of managing multiple projects and deadlines.
• CSP, ASP or CHMM Certification(s) preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 40% when necessary.

Working Conditions:

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.

Environment & Physical Effort

• Able to work in an office environment.
• Able to maintain focus and analyze data.
• Able to sit and use a computer for extended periods of time.
• Able to speak and communicate proficiently.
• Routine physical exertion: standing, walking.

EEO STATEMENT

Sharps Medical Waste Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.