Environmental Health and Safety
Responsible for working with operations, maintenance, staff functions, and Union Leadership to develop initiatives and programs promoting safe work practices and improvements. Coordinate compliance with all applicable safety and health regulations.
* Provide assistances to all levels of management in achieving the facility and corporate goals for reduction of work-related injuries. Zero injuries is our goal.
* Manage the facility's Safety, Health, Security.
* Coordinate, plan and implement programs and processes to maintain a workplace that meets or exceeds federal and state safety requirements.
* Lead Emergency Management Oversight including Emergency Responses and Insurence loss control.
* Location expert in safety and security matters including integration of Health & Safety Best Practices into the Converting facility.
* Coordinate and provide resources for all Converting, OSHA and voluntary compliance audits.
* Responsible for case management of all work-related injuries and maintaining compliance with the OSHA record keeping requirements, including accident reports, statistical summaries/calculations, injury classification, etc.
* Responsible for safety chemical approval process for all incoming chemicals.
* Act as the WR Facility Liaison to the WR Fire Department and the Wood County Emergency Government as well as the city of Wisconsin Rapids Emergency Operations Center. Serve as the WR Facility ERT Incident Commander as needed.
* Lead all safety training and ergonomic improvement initiatives, including contractors.
* Manage Safety Steering with Union Leadership involvement to ensure that safety hazards are being remediated in a timely manner.
* Lead mill departmental safety audits. Ensure that departments are conducting regularly scheduled safety audits and are following-up on findings from those audits.
* Responsible for all near miss and incident investigations and related safety recordkeeping. Ensure that all follow-up actions occur.
* Ensures Security meets compliance with FSSC 22000 requirements. Supports compliance with IS0 9001 requirements.
* Ensure that mandated safety training is occurring and properly documented.
* Provide on-call and weekend duty coverage.
* A bachelor's degree in safety, engineering or sciences or equivalent combination of experience and education
* 5 years of demonstrated effectiveness in an industrial safety environment