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Deciding on a new career at Valmet can be an exciting opportunity! Every day there are teams of Valmet employees around the world who share the feeling of achieving something great – that feeling when everything works together. Apply your expertise in new ways to continue on the path of growth as a HSE Specialist in Columbus, Mississippi.
As HSE Specialist you play a critical role in ensuring health, safety, and environmental standards are upheld in Valmet's Columbus, MS and Florence, AL locations. You will collaborate deeply with the local organizations and take strong responsibility for achieving world-class HSE performance. The position will require regular travel to the Florence, Alabama location. Travel requirements to other locations outside of Florence may vary based on business needs, audits, training initiatives, incident response, and project support.
As part of the Valmet Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) team, this is a new role waiting for you to bring your best and integrate HSE into the business. The purpose of the Local HSE Specialist is to:
Manage and deliver the effective and efficient provision of standardized HSE services and functional support to all Valmet operations in Columbus Mississippi and Florence Alabama.
Support and develop effective local HSE management and strong safety culture to support business objectives, including fulfilment of legal, customer and Group requirements, for all operations in Columbus Mississippi and Florence Alabama.
Drive manager and supervisor ownership and leadership of the system and culture
Drive employee participation in the North American and Local safety culture
You will work closely with Local managers and employees, assigned business line HSE Manager, other HSE professionals in North America, the local Quality Manager, local HR and local Occupational Health Services.
Areas of responsibility
Act as the local HSE specialist for delivering HSE services and functional support to all Valmet operations in Columbus Mississippi and Florence Alabama.
Coordinate and implement Business Area HSE processes and develop additional needed location specific HSE procedures.
Manage internal and external HSE issues in the location and communicate with relevant stakeholders.
Assure the quality of the internally and externally shared local HSE-related documentation,
Identify HSE risks and opportunities and propose and communicate solutions to the stakeholders in the location
Plan and implement Location Annual HSE improvement plan for KPI initiatives. Continue HSE improvement in line with Business Area HSE Strategy, targets and initiatives.
Co-ordinate and facilitate local HSE related training programs for Valmet employees and external workers
Assist managers in the conduct of HSE hazard and risk assessments for normal and abnormal operations as well as when operation changes are planned.
Lead local incident investigation, root cause analyses and corrective action implementation in the Location
Co-ordinate regular environmental aspect and impact identification for local operations
Ensure local HSE compliance by local law register and by regular compliance evaluations as well as implementing an annual compliance calendar in the location
Plan and deliver local HSE communication for the location
Participate as HSE specialist in local HSE committee
Represent location in the North American HSE team and participate in associated workgroups, tasks and programs.
Manage customer information requests regarding HSE in the location.
Regularly analyze and assess the needs, gaps and opportunities in Location HSE performance as input to reviews, target setting, plans and preventive initiatives and actions
Monthly, quarterly and annual reporting on Location HSE performance status
Ensure regulatory, as well as Valmet HSE record-keeping and reporting requirements are met in the Location.
Manage CSM environmental reporting database and lead location reporting of…