Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Stanley Black & Decker•Jackson, TN

21d•Onsite

About The Position

As an Environmental Health and Safety Manager, you’ll be part of our T&O Global Supply Chain team working as an on-site employee. You’ll manage the development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive environmental, health and safety programs for the Jackson plant. You will provide the leadership, direction, and support to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. This role involves translating corporate EHS requirements of external/internal auditing programs, environmental reporting requirements, safety initiatives, EHS Road Map, scorecards, and training programs into management systems with site-specific goals. You will partner with corporate EHS leads to implement corporate EHS audit program requirements, ensure audit findings and recommendations are resolved, closed, and documented according to corporate requirements. You will interface with regulatory and public sector EHS agencies and authorities as appropriate, and liaise between plant management and those government agencies on regulatory issues. You will manage and direct the site in achieving EHS targets & objectives, and direct the development, maintenance, and achievement of goals in support of corporate and business group EHS strategic initiatives. You will support the creation of EHS goals for the site manager and appropriate activity-based goals for the leadership team, functional managers, and front-line supervisors to drive EHS culture, compliance, and results. You will act as the technical expert (resource) having an understanding and working knowledge of all relevant EHS corporate and regulatory requirements and issues as necessary. You will identify and communicate best management practices across the product group. You will oversee and assist EHS Coordinators during facility restructuring projects/major process changes to verify that environmental permits are obtained at the facility prior to the installation or modification of equipment/process change. You will analyze and report site and product group performance against goals and facilitate/coordinate annual EHS audits to support compliance certification, provide oversight of audit corrective actions, and report to the Director of EHS on audit results, as necessary. You will assure compliance to all OSHA regulatory standards which include but are not limited to industrial hygiene, energy control (LOTO), NFPA 70e, confined space entry, fall protection, machine guarding, powered industrial trucks, hot work and contractor safety. Experience with storm water permits and sampling protocols for permit compliance is also required. You will manage outsourcing of and/or train staff including: General safety awareness training, machine guarding, hand and powered tool safety, ladder safety, LOTO, forklift, etc.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in health and safety or environmental sciences.
Minimum of 5-7 year’s experience in industrial manufacturing or regulatory government environment.
Detailed knowledge of OSHA, EPA and other applicable industry environmental, health and safety standards.
Leadership experience in high accountability culture and metrics driven environment
Personality able to balance strong sense of compliance urgency with sensitivity to operations needs.
Strong leadership voice with skills in communication, organization, presentations, and project management.
Sound analytical skills and ability to gather, interpret, and synthesize complex sets of data

Nice To Haves

Certified Safety Professional (or equivalent) preferred.
Previous ISO14001/18001 experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Manages the development, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive environmental, health and safety programs for the Jackson plant.
Provides the leadership, direction and support to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Translate corporate EHS requirements of external/internal auditing programs, environmental reporting requirements, safety initiatives, EHS Road Map, scorecards, and training programs into management systems with site-specific goals.
Partner with corporate EHS leads to implement corporate EHS audit program requirements, ensure audit findings and recommendations are resolved, closed and documented according to corporate requirements.
Interface with regulatory and public sector EHS agencies and authorities as appropriate.
Liaise between plant management and those government agencies on regulatory issues.
Manages and directs the site in achieving EHS targets & objectives.
Directs development, maintenance, and achievement of goals in support of corporate and business group EHS strategic initiatives.
Supports creation of EHS goals for the site manager and appropriate activity based goals for the leadership team, functional managers, and front-line supervisors to drive EHS culture, compliance, and results.
Is the technical expert (resource) having an understanding and working knowledge of all relevant EHS corporate and regulatory requirements and issues as necessary.
Identify and communicate of best management practices across the product group.
Oversee and assist EHS Coordinators during facility restructuring projects/major process changes to verify that environmental permits are obtained at the facility prior to the installation or modification of equipment/process change.
Analyze and report site and product group performance against goals
Facilitate/Coordinate annual EHS audits to support compliance certification, provide oversight of audit corrective actions, and report to Director of EHS on audit results, as necessary.
Assures compliance to all OSHA regulatory standards which include but are not limited to industrial hygiene, energy control (LOTO), NFPA 70e, confined space entry, fall protection, machine guarding, powered industrial trucks, hot work and contractor safety.
Experience with storm water permits and sampling protocols for permit compliance
Ability to manage outsourcing of and/or train staff including: General safety awareness training, machine guarding, hand and powered tool safety, ladder safety, LOTO, forklift, etc.