Environmental, Health and Safety Director jobs in Newark, NJ

Functional Leadership

• Set and achieve measurable, aggressive safety and health goals for facility within the framework of the company  programs and goals.
• Drive safety consciousness down to the operator level to create a pervasive safety culture.
• Develop and implement corporate policies, procedures, and standards at facility to help achieve 1a and 1b.
• Communicate safety and health progress, status, and issues to organization; proactively build awareness of safety and health through continuous communication strategies.
• Lead or participate in key plant safety and process safety processes including HAZOPS, major safety drills, MOC meetings, batch card and SOP reviews.
• Achieve goal of zero OSHA and other safety and health agency violations. 
• Gather and maintain required PSM documentation in conjunction with the Document Control Administrator and the rest of the Newark team.
• Keep abreast of new safety and health regulations to ensure regulatory compliance
• Act as technical safety and health resource to management staff. 
• Implement injury/illness case management strategy to minimize incidence of recordable and lost time injuries.
• Maintain, report and post required OSHA Injury and Illness records
• Facilitate HSE incident investigations using root cause analysis techniques.

Program Development and Implementation

• Develop and implement programs to achieve injury free workplace.
• Drive accountability among all functions to eliminate accidents and injuries; manage programs to achieve a high degree of engagement and ownership at the employee level.
• Develop and execute initiatives designed to identify, evaluate, prevent, and control safety and health hazards at the site.
• Implement and maintain industrial hygiene programs and standards at site.
• Execute a comprehensive plant safety training program.
• Oversee safety rewards and recognition program at site.
• Oversee contractor safety program to ensure proper safety and health practices by site contractors.
• Improve and maintain the process safety management program, Lead/oversee PHAs, LOPAs, and process safety audits and training. 
• Perform health and safety audits for other than process safety program.
• Conduct HSE incident investigations, manage incidents and corrective actions in Intelex database.

Regulatory Compliance

• Act as the primary interface with regulatory agencies on safety and health matters for the site.
• Conduct and document thorough accident, incident, and “near-miss” investigations, and provide recommendations for process, procedure or equipment improvements to reduce risk.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements for safety and health documentation and reporting.
• Conduct routine safety and health audits at site.
• Administer all required emergency evacuation drills for site.
• Maintain an annual calendar for all required OSHA safety training.

At least 5-10 years of industrial/manufacturing and supervisory experience dealing with plant EH&S.

CSP or CIH certification(s)

Strong knowledge of EH&S and process safety regulations.

Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, safety engineering, industrial hygiene or comparable field.

Demonstrated leadership skills running a safety and health function.

Demonstrated ability to improve safety programs and culture.  

Experience in union environment desired.