EHS Leader

**Job Band**: 5B

**Hiring Manager**: Scott Bergmark

**HR Rep**: Melanie Jean Cope

Department: EHS

Reports to: Site Leader

Supervises: Approximately 1 direct report

FLSA Status: Salaried exempt

Revised: 10/17/2023

**SUMMARY**

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.

**Principal Duties and 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.

**Develop skills and grow capabilities in the plant**
- 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.

**Oversee compliance with governmental regulations and corporate programs**
- 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.

**SKILLS AND ABILITIES**
- 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

**COMPUTER AND SOFTWARE COMPENTENCIES**
- Utilize basic computer skills; ability to work in SAP, Lotus Notes, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with Dakota EHS and Cority software programs, strongly preferred.
- Log into and navigate Owens Corning Learning portal to complete required online training