EHS Manager - Safety

West Fraser•Solway, MN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The EHS Manager - Safety is responsible for identifying, assessing, and communicating conformance with regulatory and corporate safety expectations. This role involves developing and implementing systems and metrics to track safety performance, leading strategic safety improvement initiatives to achieve a world-class safety culture, and ensuring compliance with environmental and health and safety regulations. The manager will also coach individuals to improve safety behavior and performance, manage workers' compensation claims, and contribute to operational improvements through data-based analysis. This is a Safety Sensitive position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in a safety or environmental sciences discipline with 3-5 years manufacturing experience OR 10 years of manufacturing management experience; or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Managerial/Supervisory experience (Preferably in Safety or Environmental management).
Thorough knowledge of Safety and / or Environmental concepts and application.
Influential Leadership — ability to mentor, coach and support leaders to support the safety culture.
Engaging others — ability to set and achieve goals through others.
Innovation — demonstrates creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Teambuilding – proven ability to build and maintain strong teams.
Knowledge of best practices, principles and methods to achieve a sustained, safe manufacturing environment.
Solid understanding of facilitating a successful safety program.
Leading and setting the example with safety.
Develop constructive and cooperative working relationships and maintain them over time.
Analyze data to make informed decisions.
Physical ability to perform the essential job functions of the position, which includes climbing stairs, navigating catwalks, working at heights, lifting up to 50 pounds, stooping, and bending.

Nice To Haves

Preferably in Safety or Environmental management

Responsibilities

Identify, assess, and communicate conformance with regulatory and corporate safety expectations.
Identify safety-training requirements and facilitate the development and implementation of safety training programs.
Develop and implement systems and metrics (leading and lagging) to track and communicate safety performance.
Develop and steward the implementation of strategic safety improvement initiatives to achieve a world-class safety culture.
Complete requisite regulatory and corporate recordkeeping and reporting requirements for both Environmental and Health and Safety programs.
Ensure compliance with air and water permitting regulations from local, state, and federal agencies.
Develop strategy to ensure safety and environmental stewardship is included in the operating rhythm.
Facilitate identification of safety requirements for physical and procedural changes in operations.
Facilitate identification of environmental requirements for physical and procedural changes to remain in compliance with state, local, and federal regulations and issued permits.
Provide objective feedback to other members of the management team regarding their safety behaviors and the safety behaviors of their subordinates.
Coach individuals (at all levels) to improve safety behavior and performance.
Develop opportunities and facilitate tracking of employee engagement in safety/safety improvement initiatives.
Interpret/analyze and report safety KPIs for use by the management team.
Assess and report on contractor performance.
Maintain Occupational Health programs (including medical surveillance requirements) in conformance with regulatory and Norbord expectations.
Ensure integrity, identify improvement opportunities in routine risk identification, and control programs (e.g., pre-task risk assessment, development of safe work procedures, etc.).
Monitor quality and consistency of incident investigation and reporting process, ensuring proper identification and implementation of corrective actions.
Manage and monitor workers compensation injuries and litigation.
Identify and implement improvements in the OSB process and operations and correct any deficiencies through data-based analytical troubleshooting practices.
Provide operational and engineering training as required.
Collate and manage information that measures and drives improvement in variability reduction.
Provide supervision, project management, and planning for capital project implementation and as required for OSB maintenance shuts.
Liaise with equipment suppliers to improve knowledge, strive for improvement, and correct deficiencies in the OSB process.
Keep abreast of all new technical and process initiatives in the OSB industry.
Interface with IT to improve and refine the OSB data acquisition system (On-Line).