Coordinator - EHS

Stoughton Trailers, LLC•Town of Decatur, WI

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About The Position

This role supports the overall business strategy by ensuring all environmental, health, and safety directives, policies, and initiatives are effectively incorporated at the plant level. The coordinator will develop and implement annual objectives and improvement plans, create strategies for new or revised policies and regulations, and conduct regular audits and inspections to ensure compliance. This position involves collaborating with various teams to conduct hazard analyses, manage industrial hygiene monitoring, and identify training needs. The coordinator will also oversee safety committee meetings, support incident investigations, manage workers' compensation claims, and participate in the plant security team. Additionally, the role involves tracking EHS metrics, maintaining records, partnering with manufacturing engineering on EHS requirements, and communicating with external agencies.

Requirements

Minimum bachelor’s degree with 1-3 years environmental, health, and safety experience in manufacturing.
Knowledge and understanding of environmental, health and safety regulations, concepts, and best practices.
Knowledge and experience with relevant consensus standards such as NFPA and ANSI, and systems such as ISO 14001, ANSI Z10 and OHSAS 18001.
Experience with and knowledge of behavior based safety concepts.
Strong Computer Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Ability to read, understand, and decipher technical information in determining applicability to plant processes.
Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to effectively organize and manage numerous work tasks of a diverse nature.
Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of internal and external contacts, including influence of cross-functional teams to gain consensus.
Excellent organizational skills.

Responsibilities

Support overall business strategy by ensuring all environmental, health and safety directives, policies, and initiatives are effectively incorporated at plant level.
Develop, implement, and execute annual objectives and improvement plans in conjunction with plant management.
Develop appropriate strategies for implementation of new or revised policies and regulations in conjunction with plant management.
Undertake, at regular, intervals audits/inspections of the plant (including inspections of machinery, equipment in use, and work systems in operation) with plant management to ensure compliance with corporate polices and regulations. Where appropriate, develop corrective and preventive actions with management team.
Collaborate with Safety Engineers, supervisors, and production employees to conduct job hazard analyses and risk assessments, and implement proper controls as necessary.
Evaluate, recommend, and manage industrial hygiene monitoring to assess employee exposures to airborne contaminants and physical hazards.
Identify plant environmental, health and safety training needs, develop appropriate resources, and execute training sessions for employees and management staff as required. Partner with Training and Safety Educators (TSE) to assure effective completion of training topics.
Organize and oversee plant safety committee meetings.
Support plant supervisors with the investigation of incidents. Where necessary, lead investigation process and/or collaborate with appropriate staff on serious incidents.
Communicate incidents and corrective actions in a timely, thorough, and effective manner.
Partner with Human Resources to monitor the status of all open Workers Compensation claims and coordinate with plant supervisors to minimize lost and/or restricted work days.
Participate on, and assist, the plant Security Team, including review of physical plant security and security situations as they develop.
Track and monitor plant environmental, health and safety metrics and communicate trends to management team as needed to drive performance.
Maintain environmental, health and safety records to ensure adherence to corporate polices and/or regulatory requirements. Including, but not limited to, permit documentation, OSHA 300 log, incident records, safety metrics, training, inspections, and evaluations.
Partner with Manufacturing Engineering team on environmental, health and safety requirements in the design, introduction, installation, use and decommissioning of manufacturing processes, equipment, and materials.
Communicate where necessary with various external agencies or resources (Government Agencies, Insurers, etc.).