EHS Manager

We are seeking an experienced EHS Manager to join our team at C&D Technologies. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and managing effective safety and environmental programs in a lean environment.

• Coordinate safety programs to ensure a safe environment consistent with regulatory, environmental, and company requirements and needs.
• Promote the company mission, philosophy, goals, and objectives by formulating plans, procedures, and objectives for safety programs and by evaluating their effectiveness.
• Create and maintain a work environment that encourages open communication and positive employee relations to establish a climate of openness and trust.
• Seek out opportunities for staff involvement and innovation to promote employee creativity and generate ideas to improve functions, devise solutions, and implement plans.
• Operate and maintain water treatment and wastewater equipment, ensuring compliance with state and federal environmental protection limits.
• Prepare reports and maintain logs for water treatment systems on meter readings, tests, chemical and equipment usage, and all other record-keeping requirements.
• Build a cohesive team with the skills necessary to successfully meet departmental and company objectives and strategies.
• Communicate training information in a formal classroom setting and conduct on-the-job training on various safety and environmental programs.
• Keep various safety and environmental records and logbooks up to date.
• Work with the medical department to follow high-cost or precedent-setting workers' compensation cases.
• Assist with cost-control efforts and participate in manufacturing improvement committees.
• Interface with OSHA and various environmental programs inspectors.
• Study, plan, and formulate new and revised safety programs, JSA's, and rules, prepare recommendations, and implement for conformance.
• Responsible for the effective application of safety and environmental policies and practices and to investigate and eliminate hazardous conditions and unsafe practices.
• Through safety and environmental training sessions, meetings, manuals, bulletins, films, etc., keep supervisory personnel apprised of hazardous conditions and practices, recommend injury prevention measures.
• Study work operations, details of the nature of the work, materials and equipment used, products and byproducts, and employee workforce profile.
• Industrial hygiene studies may involve exposure to dust, fumes, mists, gases, vapors, noise, heat, and cold.
• Assess new developments in the safety and environmental field that may have application to the company's operations.
• Keep apprised of developments in federal and state safety and applicable environmental laws likely to affect the company.
• Coordinate safety and industrial hygiene to obtain optimum service with insurance carriers.
• Investigate serious injuries/incidents in conjunction with line and staff personnel, Human Resources, and Occupational Health Nurse.
• Assist line and staff management to understand OSHA regulations and standards, including guidance on handling OSHA compliance, inspections, and citations.
• Manage and maintain appropriate permitting requirements.
• Supervise approximately 4 (hourly) direct reports and (1) salaried non-exempt.
• Evaluate performance, provide feedback, and complete performance reviews.
• Supervise and train light technical and hourly personnel in performing supporting tasks.