Senior Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Reynolds Consumer Products Inc,•Lake Forest, IL

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About The Position

Joinâ¯Reynolds Consumer Products…and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. Are looking to build a strong career? Then we have an opportunity for you! We currently have an opening for a Senior Manager-Environmental Health & Safety to join our team located at our corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, IL. The Senior Manager- Environmental Health & Safety will provide leadership, counsel, and perform as an effective facilitator to influence development of a proactive approach to safety, health and environmental issues. The principal challenges include assuring that sound Environmental, Safety, and Health Management systems are in place; anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling safety and health hazards; providing expert input into problem-solving and implementation relative to those hazards; and monitoring and continually improving the performance of Health and Safety Management Systems. You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen! Provide focus, definition and technical expertise for the development of a proactive EHS plan that is consistent with RCP's corporate policies, vision, values and is in compliance with local, state, and federal EHS regulations. Communication and training to plant management that will insure all levels of plant personnel understand their roles and functions for identifying and resolving of EHS issues, complying with EHS regulations and WWHP . Maintaining awareness of and proactively influencing emerging and existing EHS laws/regulation, which may impact plant operation. Negotiating environmental permits that reflect cost effective process design, reasonable operating constraints, and are consistent with corporate environmental policy and regulatory requirements. Provide direction and technical expertise to the engineering organizations or contractors in implementing EHS projects, while adhering to RPC safety expectation. Establishing and maintain communications, reporting, assessments, training programs, and guidance necessary to ensure that the department managers are fully informed about all Health policies and applicable laws and regulations in a timely fashion. Maintaining plant compliance with all EPA reporting regulations. Maintain plant SPCC plan and assures compliance as appropriate Maintain compliance regarding hazardous material by conducting weekly inspections, preparing Hazardous Waste Disposal and Waste Water Reports, advising plant personnel on hazardous waste handling and obtaining samples and analysis of possible hazardous material. Coordinate necessary environmental, health and safety training to support and enhance the organization's safety culture while ensuring the plant is in compliance with local, state, federal and Reynold's Safety requirements. Build and maintain strong communication channels to all levels of operating management and functional departments, as well as the production workforce by conferring with team members on the safe use of equipment, fire protection, and the overall safety program and by providing expert guidance and tactical hands on assistance in all Environmental, Health, and Safety goals and initiatives. Establish and maintain communications, reporting, assessments, training programs, and guidance necessary to ensure that the location managers are fully informed about all noncompliance and potential noncompliance issues relative to EHS policies and applicable laws and regulations in a timely fashion. Maintaining awareness of and proactively influencing emerging and existing EHS laws/regulation, which may impact, plant operation. Measures safety performance through computing injury/frequency rates, making reports, and keeping records of accidents and prevention measures. Lead and build a behavioral based, interdependent culture where the entire organization is concerned not only for their personal safety, but the safety of all employees.

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Engineering, or technical discipline or related field.
8+ years of progressive and related professional Health and Safety experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Knowledge of applicable Federal, State and RCP's EHS related regulations and procedures.
Working knowledge of applicable safety and environmental regulations and policies including OSHA, SARA, Title V air, waste, wastewater and storm water.
General knowledge of GMP, HACCP, AIB and SQF requirements.
Requires thorough understanding of EHS objectives, procedures, and policies.
Demonstrated legislation knowledge and regulatory compliance.
Strong communication skills, analytical skills, problem solving and creative skills to deal both objectively and empathetically with organizational and labor/management challenges.
Demonstrated professional with passion for change and relentless focus on execution
Ability to train others. Previous experience and/or knowledge of various training methodologies.
Strong organizational and planning skills with the ability to prioritize tasks.
Management, supervisory and coaching experience
Must be team oriented with the ability to work on high collaboration and performance teams

Nice To Haves

MBA or Master's degree.

Responsibilities

Provide focus, definition and technical expertise for the development of a proactive EHS plan that is consistent with RCP's corporate policies, vision, values and is in compliance with local, state, and federal EHS regulations.
Communication and training to plant management that will insure all levels of plant personnel understand their roles and functions for identifying and resolving of EHS issues, complying with EHS regulations and WWHP .
Maintaining awareness of and proactively influencing emerging and existing EHS laws/regulation, which may impact plant operation.
Negotiating environmental permits that reflect cost effective process design, reasonable operating constraints, and are consistent with corporate environmental policy and regulatory requirements.
Provide direction and technical expertise to the engineering organizations or contractors in implementing EHS projects, while adhering to RPC safety expectation.
Establishing and maintain communications, reporting, assessments, training programs, and guidance necessary to ensure that the department managers are fully informed about all Health policies and applicable laws and regulations in a timely fashion.
Maintaining plant compliance with all EPA reporting regulations.
Maintain plant SPCC plan and assures compliance as appropriate
Maintain compliance regarding hazardous material by conducting weekly inspections, preparing Hazardous Waste Disposal and Waste Water Reports, advising plant personnel on hazardous waste handling and obtaining samples and analysis of possible hazardous material.
Coordinate necessary environmental, health and safety training to support and enhance the organization's safety culture while ensuring the plant is in compliance with local, state, federal and Reynold's Safety requirements.
Build and maintain strong communication channels to all levels of operating management and functional departments, as well as the production workforce by conferring with team members on the safe use of equipment, fire protection, and the overall safety program and by providing expert guidance and tactical hands on assistance in all Environmental, Health, and Safety goals and initiatives.
Establish and maintain communications, reporting, assessments, training programs, and guidance necessary to ensure that the location managers are fully informed about all noncompliance and potential noncompliance issues relative to EHS policies and applicable laws and regulations in a timely fashion.
Maintaining awareness of and proactively influencing emerging and existing EHS laws/regulation, which may impact, plant operation.
Measures safety performance through computing injury/frequency rates, making reports, and keeping records of accidents and prevention measures.
Lead and build a behavioral based, interdependent culture where the entire organization is concerned not only for their personal safety, but the safety of all employees.