EHS Specialist

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

IA New Hampton

Job Type:

Environmental Health & Safety

Job Posting Title:

EHS Specialist

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

What You Gain:

• Competitive compensation and benefits program
• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
• Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

Job Description:

About the Role:

The EH&S Specialist role at the New Hampton location supports and drives key safety initiatives to improve safety and performance throughout the plant. The role includes oversight and responsibility for all aspects of local EH&S strategy, compliance, and training needs of the plant. You'll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

• Managing daily activities to ensure interaction with facility management team, team leaders, and facility employees in order to increase awareness and education levels regarding safe and compliant work.
• Analyzing incident data to identify trends and incident types that can be prevented and performing job site analysis to determine employee and property exposures, and institute safe work practices.
• Maintaining all site required documentation related to health and safety programs (i.e. accident reports, inspection reports, corrective action logs, training records, etc.)
• Monitoring and supports security-related events and participates in claims management program with HR team.
• Working as a Subject Matter Expert to develop and implement site specific policies and programs to ensure the facility is in compliance with safety and health requirements in accordance with federal/state/local regulatory and Company requirements. (OSHA, EPA and TreeHouse Foods standards)
• Overseeing hazardous waste control and disposal activities including training, collection, disposal, and records maintenance and for conservation programs within the organization.

Important Details: This is a full-time on-site role supporting 1st shift plant safety needs. Some schedule flexing will be required.

About You:

You'll fit right in if you have:

• B.S. degree in safety management, environmental health, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of safety regulations (OSHA, hazard communications, accident investigation and safety training methods, etc.) and industry best practice regarding safety and environmental management practices with PSM & RMP.
• Strong writing and communication skills at all levels of management.
• Previous progressive experience developing in an EH&S role and in a manufacturing environment - food manufacturing is a plus.

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