The EH&S Manager at Aqua-Chem provides technical support, leadership and guidance developing and implementing; policies, procedures, and programs to achieve goals related to plant safety, health and environment regulatory compliance and corporate objectives. The primary focus is safety and health while supporting environmental actions as directed.  

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm 

Location: Onsite; Knoxville, TN

Pay Range: Dependent on Experience | $85,000- $135,000/yr (Salary/Exempt)

Benefits: Group Medical, Dental Vision, 401(k) Match, Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, and Paid Sick Time. +Employer Paid Benefits: STD, LTD, Life AD&D

Essential Duties:

• Implements and enforces safety and health plan and procedures throughout the facility

• Conducts and/or participates in required training, safety meetings, and routine inspections

• Works with the Leadership Team to standardize safety practices

• Leads organization in creating and sustaining a proactive Safety Culture and a strong Integrated Safety Management System

• Identifies, schedules, and supports health and safety training

• Ensure compliance with facility emergency response plans (including evacuation alarms, accountability rosters, and assembly points)

• Continuously evaluates facilities for any hazards not previously identified or adequately controlled, initiate measures required to protect personnel, the public and the environment, and revise documents accordingly.

• Monitors safety and health regulations and provides technical support to all personnel to ensure compliance with OSHA, and federal safety, and health regulations

• Investigates near misses, accidents/incidents, identifies root causes, reports on the causes and solutions to ensure countermeasures are implemented in a timely manner

• Participates and facilitates safety lessons learned

• Perform routines safety assessments, inspections, and daily paperwork

• Ensures pre-work equipment, tooling, and PPE inspection has been performed and documented

• Stays abreast of new regulations and applicable laws; communicates and integrates changes or corrections as required

• Familiar with Hazard Analysis (AHA, JHA, etc.) development and implementation for work tasks performed

• Conducts safety orientations for visitors, new hires, and subcontractors

• Tracks, trends, and reports to Leadership all leading/lagging safety indicators

• Familiar with manufacturing environment, including welding, machining, forklifts and crane safety standards

• Guide and direct organization toward compliance with local, state, and federal safety and environmental regulations, and corporate compliance policies

• Ensure timely submittal of required federal, state, and local environmental and safety regulatory reports

• Perform other duties as are appropriate and as assigned by management

• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Safety and Health related field or commensurate experience required.

• 5+ years working in a manufacturing environment as the designated ES&H expert

• First Aid/ CPR Certification and the ability to perform these duties

• Strong technical writing skills which are customary to remediation projects, safety, industrial hygiene, incident/accident reporting, assessments and position papers.

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with severe abstract and concrete variables.

Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen

• Able to work overtime as required

• Must have a flexible schedule.

• Strong problem-solving skills required.

• Must be able gather, analyzes and synthesize complex and diverse information accurately

• Self-starter who seeks out ways to improve processes and drive standard work

• Demonstrated ability to be effective in a fast paced, metric driven environment

*This description indicates the general nature of the tasks and responsibilities required of positions given this classification. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities. Nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of management to assign, direct, and control the specific duties of individuals performing this function. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper. This description supersedes any previous description for this position. This description supersedes any previous descriptions for this position.

**Aqua-Chem provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.