Senior EH&S Specialist

3 weeks ago


Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Avient Full time
Job Summary
The position is responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of Safety, Health, and Environmental policies, procedures, and operations at the manufacturing plants. The Senior EH&S Specialist is also responsible for training systems across all plant functional areas.

Ensures the plant is in full compliance with the corporate, city, county, state, and federal government Safety, Health, and Environmental laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Inspects facilities, machinery, equipment, and personnel practices to identify potential safety and health concerns and hazards.
  • Identifies training gaps and develops training materials/programs designed to address the concern.
  • Trains employees and management in safe practices, including Hazard Communications, blood-borne pathogens, respirator use, lock-out/tag-out, forklift operation, hot work, confined space, fire protection, site evacuation, contractor safety, and safe lifting.
  • Serves as a subject matter expert at other plants to help identify potential problems and works with plant management to develop solutions.
  • Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local safety laws, regulations, codes, and rules.
  • Ensures that all E, H, S reporting is completed timely and accurately, including Avient-required, government, agency, and other reporting.
  • Develops and maintains safety systems, policies, and procedures for the site.
  • Conducts accident investigation and provides recommendations to prevent reoccurrence.
  • Chairs assigned committees, such as the Safety Committee, Site Emergency Response Team, and Recycle Team.
  • Acts as Company representative in dealing with government agencies on safety, health, and environmental matters affecting the site.
  • Responsible for all safety-related permit programs.
  • Responsible for maintaining and improving site security programs.
  • Responsible for ensuring that all waste streams are properly classified and handled.
  • Ensures that E, H, S standards are met by all onsite contract services.
  • Provides information to top management on accidents, causes, and costs and recommends long-range accident reduction and cost containment objectives.
  • Coordinates activities with local fire departments and other government/civic functions on inspection of facilities.
  • Ensure safe operation, modification, and installation of equipment in all buildings.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in EH&S or equivalent experience.
  • 5-7 years of prior EH&S experience.
  • Software skills: Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, SAP.

Additional Qualifications

  • Personal skills: Stress management, reading/comprehension, self-motivated, training/mentoring others, analytical skills, time/priority management, work on a team, organizational skills, conflict resolution skills.
  • Leader of others: drives engagement, courage, values differences, ensures accountability, develops talent, organizational savvy.
  • Cross-functional: budget management, chemical industry, leadership experience, manufacturing industry, industrial operations, safety procedures, process improvement, manufacturing operations, legal and regulatory compliance, problem-solving techniques.

Competencies

  • Each position at Avient focuses on eight Core Competencies as a Leader of Self.
  • The most critical for success in this role include: instills trust, action-oriented, collaborates, customer focus, situational adaptability, being resilient, demonstrates self-awareness, communicates effectively.

Physical Demands

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
  • The employee is frequently required to walk.
  • The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear.
  • The employee is occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 55 lbs.
  • Specific vision abilities may be required by this job, including close vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental, Health, Safety, & Security (EHS&S) Requirements

  • Avient integrates EHS&S into all aspects of our operations.
  • Each position at Avient is responsible for complying with all applicable EHS&S requirements.
  • Employees and management are responsible for reporting all EHS&S incidents immediately to ensure we keep EHS&S a priority within the organization.

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