Environmental, Health and Safety Lead

Owens Corning•Summit, IL

4d•$92,000 - $146,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Leader is a critical member of the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) providing guidance and coaching in the areas of safety and environmental stewardship to all plant members. The EHS Leader must maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, positively influence employees, and engage them in all aspects of safety and environmental processes. This position leads the development, implementation, and evaluation of critical safety and environmental processes, programs, and procedures to achieve a zero-injury environment. The successful candidate provides leadership and applies technical abilities to engage employees at all levels of the organization to sustain world-class safety and environmental processes.

Requirements

Strong working knowledge of environmental, health, and safety compliance law and industrial hygiene
Ability to identify hazards, critical process, and system needs and implement appropriate action plans
Ability to establish agreement and consensus with management
Ability to effectively engage employees is critical
Ability to initiate and lead cross-functional teams and management / union committees to achieve objectives
Adept at developing and delivering safety training
Skillful in driving and managing change
Ability to integrate resources across the organization
Engages and cares for others, starting with safety
Achieves results, individually and through teams
Enjoys working with people and in teams
Takes business risks, grows from failures, celebrates successes
Demonstrates strategic planning and thinking
Utilize basic computer skills; ability to work in SAP, Lotus Notes, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Log into and navigate Owens Corning Learning portal to complete required online training routinely
Undergraduate degree in any field related to EH&S, such as hygiene engineering, science, or equivalent
6 years of progressive manufacturing safety experience, 3 years of experience working in an industrial or manufacturing environment preferred
Experience in leading, assessing, and developing talent to deliver results

Nice To Haves

Experience with Dakota EHS and Cority software programs, strongly preferred
Professional certification as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), strongly preferred
Experience with Illinois-specific environmental and safety regulations strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Live the Safety stand, adhere to safety, health, and environmental responsibilities.
Transform plant safety and environmental performance to world-class levels that align with division and Owens Corning corporate goals.
Build and foster a safety culture among all plant employees.
Reduce the plant’s environmental footprint in the community.
Support and help build a culture of wellness.
Advise and guide the Natural Leadership Team (NLT) in developing a risk-ranked strategic plan, prioritize and advocate capital/resource requests, and advise the leadership team on all aspects of environmental requirements and responsibilities.
Implement a personal safety action plan.
Manages Plant Safety metrics – RIR, first aids, near misses, SAFE and Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) scores.
Manages Plant Environmental metrics.
Coach, mentor, and re-direct personnel in the plant to develop extraordinary Safety leaders.
Grow and develop the direct reports, as well as the safety teams within the workforce.
Maintain a leadership presence on the plant floor, influence employee and supervisory behaviors, and fully engage employees in the safety process.
Enroll and engage the entire workforce to build a powerful safety culture.
Assess effectiveness of plant leadership from an EH&S perspective and provide developmental guidance as required.
Develop safety programs and incident tracking systems to drive insights on injury prevention and ways to engineer out safety risk.
Lead a safety committee of plant employees to create a safe and environmentally conscious workforce.
Start and lead Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) EHS programs in support of the overall plant strategy.
Develop and implement training programs in a coordinated effort with appropriate plant personnel.
Continually reinforce the Company’s stand on safety.
Develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of all critical EH&S processes, programs, and procedures.
Set and accomplished critical metrics regularly to ensure continuous improvement in the processes that lead to an engaged safety culture on the floor.
Recognize employee accomplishments and contributions.
Ensure regulatory compliance of all environmental permits and processes.
Foster positive relationships with governmental agencies and work as a partner to improve plant.
Create, maintain, and oversee the compliance calendar for all regulatory requirements.
Effectively address enforcement actions from local, state, or federal agencies.
Provide expert technical support in identifying, and resolving, critical regulatory issues.
Ensure adherence to corporate policies and programs.
Maintain the corporate management systems.
Address deficiencies in internal EHS audits.
Continuously elevates the customer perspective of self and others by knowing our products, manufacturing, and selling processes. The E&S Lead applies this knowledge to successfully influence other leaders to make the best business decisions.