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Job Description
Job Summary:
The Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Site Leader is responsible for leading, developing, interpreting, and administering, the Environmental, Health and Safety programs for the Site. This position develops policies and procedures to ensure employee health services are compatible with corporate goals and objectives. This position is responsible for overseeing worker’s compensation compliance and health/wellness programs as well as developing strategic site safety programs. This role must have extensive knowledge in environmental permitting in a manufacturing environment and serve as Subject Matter Expert on most issues involving Environmental Compliance, Health and Safety regulation, and Workers Compensation. EH&S Site Leader will work closely with both internal and external customers. Ensures compliance with BD EHS systems, policies, procedures and best practices, and all local, state, federal regulations.
This role must have the skills to lead in a cross functional organization in order to drive positive EHS change for both Warwick and Woburn sites and the BD organization.
Regular, punctual attendance is an essential job function. Ability to read and write and converse in English. Willing and able to uphold BD Values.
Job Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Provide effective leadership for associate, health and wellness. Coordinate day-to-day implementation of industrial health, ergonomic and wellness programs.
2. Determine EHS site goals and necessary programs with site area leaders and managers. Effectively influences them to be strong EHS Leaders within their areas of responsibility.
3. Responsible for review EHS policies, programs, and metrics to meet the goals and objectives of the business and fully integrating this into the plant management system.
4. Prepare, implement, and operate the site EHS management system and programs and implement the necessary policies and procedures with a risk-based and structured approach.
5. Must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Capable of communicating, articulating risks, issues, ideas, plans, and proposals to all levels of the organization as well as influencing others without direct authority.
6. Keeps abreast of the federal state, local laws (OSHA, DOT, EPA, FMLA, ADA, etc) as well as company policies to ensure the site is in compliance with the regulations. Initiates changes to practices and procedures to support compliance and ensure the necessary permits and licenses to operate in Columbus East are in place.
7. Ensure effective occupational safety and health programs are maintained with external support from health care providers, insurers, community health, and regulatory agencies.
8. Ensure employment-related medical screenings and procedures are effective and compliant.
9. Handle Personally identifiable Health Information (PHI) in communicating with medical providers.
10. Responsible to ensure safety amongst associates in the facility relating to weather, environmental, machine safety, or ergonomics.
11. Ensure compliance with local, state and federal regulations regarding environmental discharges from the facility.
12. Ensure compliance with waste shipment regulations.
13. Training associates as necessary.
14. Provide oversight and direction for day-to-day compliance with applicable air, hazardous waste, wastewater, and storm water permits, plans, regulations, etc.
15. Ability to interpret environmental laws and…