About the position
Become the driving force behind a safer, healthier, and more environmentally conscious workplace at our thriving 400+ employee Minnetonka site. As the EHS&S leader, you'll spearhead cutting-edge strategies and innovative programs designed to protect our most valuable asset – our people. Your mission? To create a workplace where risks are minimized, compliance is second nature, and a culture of safety flourishes. In this pivotal role, you'll craft and implement forward-thinking Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EHS&S) initiatives while ensuring seamless regulatory compliance and providing expert technical support. You'll deliver engaging training sessions that empower employees at all levels, champion a positive safety culture that inspires and motivates, and work tirelessly towards the ultimate goal: an injury-free and healthy work environment. Join us in shaping a workplace where safety isn't just a priority – it's a way of life. Your expertise and passion for EHS&S will make a tangible difference in the lives of hundreds of employees every day. Are you ready to lead the charge towards a safer, more sustainable future?
Responsibilities
- Proactively designs, develops, and implements strategies, policies, programs, processes, and systems that ensure EH&S compliance, enhance performance, and drive core values and results to an operational level.
- Gathers and analyzes EHS data, develop goals to meet targets, manage scorecards, databases, and dashboards for EHS related programs and metrics.
- Develops effective communication processes to make safety priorities and performance visible.
- Analyzes data to proactively assess health and safety challenges from risk assessment methods and develop action plans to ensure all significant risks are controlled and managed as part of the operational controls defined within the EHS management system and procedures.
- Provides regulatory assistance, technical support, and training for the site.
- Responds to safety and environmental compliance issues, enforcement actions, emergencies, and changes in operations or security, coordinating with corporate resources as required.
- Leads the deployment, application, renewal, and reporting process for environmental permitting and plans (EPA, MPCA, SPCC, etc.).
- Conducts and/or coordinates EHS audits, incident investigations, emergency response plans, ergonomics, PPE programs, machine guarding, management of change, industrial hygiene, and other EHS programs.
- Logs and tracks audit recommendations to completion and assists all levels in developing corrective actions for audit findings.
- Reviews capital projects for safety and environmental impacts and permitting requirements.
- Maintains expert knowledge of existing and proposed regulations including chemical management and Hazardous Waste.
- Manage, supervise, train, coach and mentor direct reports and support team members involved in delivering the EHS programs.
- Supports the Safety Committee.
- Works to reduce workers’ compensation risks and costs.
- Serves as member of the facility’s emergency response and crisis management team, during times of serious incidents, by directing efforts when requested, offering recommendations, interpreting regulations, and coordinating communication with government regulators or agencies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience required.
- 10+ years of EHS leadership experience (manufacturing industry preferred).
- Experience as manager of complex EHS performance, compliance permitting, regulatory issues, projects, and programs.
Nice-to-haves
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to manage and prioritize a highly variable team workload generated by user, developer, and project support requests, and effectively communicates results to both team and users.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving skills.
- Subject matter expert in application monitoring, configuration, and security capabilities.
- Effectively trains on high-risk management standards and other WTS EHS requirements.
- Identifies and communicates opportunities for wellbeing.
- Knowledge of procedures used to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control physical, chemical, and ergonomic hazard.
- Experience with new manufacturing operations with chemical management.
Benefits
- Compensation - The salary range is tied to the market for similarly benchmarked roles. The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. Depending upon all the preceding considerations for the final selected individual candidate, the offer may be lower or higher than the stated range: $140,000 - $150,000 annually.
- Annual Incentive Plan - 15%.
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Starting Day 1!
- Life Insurance.
- Paid Time Off.
- Paid Holidays.
- Parental Leave.
- 401(k) Plan.
- Flexible Spending & Health Saving Accounts.
- AD&D Insurance.
- Disability Insurance.
- Tuition Reimbursement.
