Health, Safety and Environmental Project Specialist

Cummins•Morristown, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Coordinates projects, analyzes data and supports implementation of health, safety and environmental programs in collaboration with cross functional teams. Communicates with key business stakeholders to ensure successful project completion.

Requirements

A master's degree in Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment discipline, Environmental Science.
Knowledge and experience with ISO 14001:2015 and HSE regulatory compliance.
Strong verbal & written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks or projects simultaneously.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
External candidate must have completed a degree from an accredited US University within the past 2 years.
External candidate must currently reside in the US.

Nice To Haves

Minimal management experience preferred.
ISO 14001:2015 Certification/Professional Certification in HSE related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Builds relationships across functions.
Demonstrates a commitment to driving a positive health, safety and environmental culture.
Consults with employees and collects feedback to contribute to the development and implementation of programs, policies and procedures that will have a direct impact on an employee work environment.
Supports hazard identification, environmental aspect identification and risk assessment programs, collecting and analyzing data to identify potential projects, prioritizing using a risk-based data-driven approach.
Works with project stakeholders to establish project goals, project plans, timelines and milestones.
Tracks performance against project goals and timelines.
Develops and maintains project related metrics, communicating project status to respective stakeholders.
Monitors all project related costs, project risk and project resources, working with team to resolve issues.
Leads projects from identification through implementation utilizing Cummins approved methodologies.
Ensures continuous improvement throughout the site using the plan, do, check, act methodology.
Develops project related support materials for training, skills development and internal communications.
Maintains policies, procedures, tools and resources for assigned projects ensuring they are up to date, controlled and available while adhering to data privacy regulations.
Works with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions to eliminate or reduce risk to as low as practical.
Supports site(s) Health, Safety, Environmental Management Systems through participation in site audits.
Utilizes health, safety and environmental data from legal compliance findings, and internal and external audit results to identify continuous improvement projects
Coaches others on health, safety and environmental processes based on stakeholder feedback or observations.
Actively seeks opportunities for self-development through professional health, safety and environmental organizations, as a champion of emerging trends.
Management and monitoring of regulatory environmental programs (SWPP, SPCC, Wastewater, Tier II, TRI, Air Permitting, Waste Management)
Management of on-site environmental & sustainability projects from planning through completion.
Support on-site risk reduction programs like Risk Assessment, Ergonomic Assessment, Action Plans, etc.
Incident reporting with accuracy and consistency.
Support internal and external HSE audits, maintain thorough documentation, and apply available tools to strengthen environmental and safety performance.
Engage in relevant HSE training development for the employees.