Industrial Risk Manager

Saft America, Inc.•Valdosta, GA

About The Position

The Industrial Risk Manager is responsible for implementing and maintaining an effective risk management program. The role identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks associated with company operations and works with other departments to help ensure activities are conducted safely and comply with applicable regulations. The manager is also responsible for the integrity management program, including safety-critical barriers management. The position represents the site’s technology risk management activities to Saft, TotalEnergies, and relevant authorities. It oversees process safety risk analyses, supports the availability and competence of specialist resources, and helps ensure safety actions for priority and critical processes are addressed. The role also develops site capabilities and process safety culture, supports the site safety management system, validates industrial-risk aspects of change requests with relevant HSE department heads, and proposes reporting elements for regulatory, normative, and operational requirements.

Requirements

Engineering degree or equivalent qualification in safety, environmental, or engineering.
Minimum 10 years of experience in industrial risk management.
Thorough understanding of applicable industrial safety regulations.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
Experience in the battery industry.
Experience using risk analysis tools, implementing industrial safety programs, and training employees in industrial safety.
Problem-solving skills.
Advanced computer skills.
Strong reporting and analytical skills.

Nice To Haves

Fluency in French.

Responsibilities

Identify, assess, and mitigate major operational risks, including fire, explosion, pollution, and toxicity.
Develop and implement an industrial risk management program, including management of critical safety barriers.
Work with other departments to help ensure activities are conducted safely and in compliance with applicable regulations.
Determine action plans required to manage industrial risks.
Represent the site’s technology risk management activities to Saft, TotalEnergies, and authorities, including DREAL, the Prefecture, EPA, and local government agencies.
Coordinate inspections and reply to and endorse letters and studies within the role’s remit, including those concerning environmental regulations and group audits.
Manage process safety risk analyses and ensure specialist resources, internal or outsourced, are available and competent.
Ensure safety actions for priority and critical processes relating to major accidents and maintenance of authorizations are taken into account.
Develop employees’ methodological skills and site capabilities for managing technological risks by sharing best practices and fostering a process safety culture.
Act as guarantor of the site safety management system and, with relevant HSE department heads, validate change requests from the industrial risk perspective.
Propose reporting elements to meet regulatory and normative requirements and provide indicators relevant to the activity.