EHS Manager

Eaton’s ES AMER PCS division is currently seeking a EHS Manager.

What you’ll do:

This position provides environmental, health, safety, and security leadership to the Site. Individual is accountable for:

• directing EHS activities at his/her location(s)
• establishing EHS objectives and targets
• internal reporting of EHS performance
• communication of national, area, and local regulatory requirements, and
• ensuring documents are available in the local languages. Position is responsible for: maintaining site ISO 14001 certifications
• assuring accurate and complete EHS reporting of metrics
• assuring closure of MESH and regulatory agency findings on a timely basis
• completion of required training for EHS personnel
• managing interfaces with the public and governmental authorities with adverse findings and enforcement actions
• directing actions during crises
• site security, creating a strong EHS culture that engages employees throughout the site in EHS teams and processes.

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Health and Safety

1. Leads the creation of the site EHS&S targets and objectives (MESH Plan) in support of corporate, regional, and business group EHS&S strategic initiatives designed to drive EHS&S culture, compliance, and results.

2. Drives preventative and proactive action projects to mitigate and eliminate risks through root cause identification and corrective actions for environmental, safety and health activities.

3. Ensures that the federal, state, and local EHS regulations are met including air, land, and water to provide a safe working environment for employees, and a clean and healthful environment for the community.

4. Maintains fiscally and socially responsible methods and processes of managing natural resources and waste.

5. Responsible to achieve certification on MESH and dimensions included OPA, EBE, MESH+, etc.

6. Interfaces with regulatory agencies and divisional personnel to direct environmental, safety, and health efforts at the facility, in the division, and other groups within the company. Establishes and maintains relationships with governmental authorities on matters of mutual concern including voluntary certification, maintenance of environmental permits, submission of required reports, and maintenance of data.

7. Leads site efforts in the development and deployment of EHS management systems (e.g. ISO 14001, VPP, MESH) to ensure that key EHS operational controls are in place. Ensures all action items identified within all EHS management systems are resolved in a timely manner, and leader’s development plans are assessed and implemented.

8. Complies with Eaton’s ethics policy and keeps the management team informed of issues associated with regulatory compliance

9. Manages all investigations, measurement, and evaluations of environmental, safety, and health conditions and ensures that relevant research, development, planning, design, and advisory and related activities occur.

10. Maintains positive employee engagement while implementing strategic safety initiatives.

11. Manages and directs site in achieving EHS targets & objectives. Directs development, maintenance, and achievement of goals in support of corporate and business group EHS strategic initiatives.

12. Coordinate with Engineering/Manufacturing Departments the proper process for installation of new equipment or production lines, based on the MESH guideline.

13. Facilitates risk assessment at the location to identify critical EHS hazards and aspects. Works with leadership team to create targets and objectives based on key EHS risks (annually).

14. Determines and monitor appropriate leading and lagging indicators to track performance against targets and objectives.

15. Oversees construction and repair projects.

16. Supports creation of EHS goals for the site manager and appropriate activity-based goals for the leadership team, functional managers, and front-line supervisors to drive EHS culture, compliance, and results.

17. Supervise all Safety and Environmental activities.

18. Formulates and recommends engineering policies and technical work in accordance with project objectives in all related EHS.

19. Drives and promotes zero incident EHS culture throughout site, engaging the leadership team.

20. Creates and facilitates EHS engagement through EHS teams and committees needed to accomplish the established targets and objectives for the year.

Health and Safety

21. Works with leadership team and MESH element champions to complete an annual evaluation of compliance for EHS country, state, and local regulations. In addition, complete the MESH self-assessment and update in Benchmark.

22. Identify needs of trainings, to ensure legal and EHS compliance and support plant general training plan.

23. Work with site leadership team and facilities to ensure that all key EHS operational controls are in place, on a PM program, and that EHS action items are resolved on a timely basis.

24. Assure compliance with MESH and environmental laws.

• Industrial hygiene - Identify sources of exposure to monitor and control. Education to affected employees. Keep records.

• Noise exposure - Identify sources, develop engineering controls, program implementation. Education to employees.

• Machine Guarding - Evaluate new existing equipment, develop guarding and education to employees, include lockout & tag out.

• Fire prevention - Keep surveillance of fire suppression equipment inspections (internal & external). Abatement of findings. Firefighting training for employees.

• Hazard Communication - Evaluate all SDS and communicate hazard to employees. Keep control of documents.

• Pressure Vessels and Overhead Cranes - Coordinate inspections. Keep records.

• Emergency Preparedness Procedure and Drills.

• Personal Protection Equipment - Identify need, purchase, and control.

• Ergonomics - Permanent member of the Team.

• Safety Steering Committee – Support inspections strategy and members training.

• Waste Management – Keep site status of Zero Waste To Landfill (ZWTL), identifying other means of recycling to deviate waste from landflill.

• Energy Management – With the participation of the manufacturing engineers identify new technologies for manufacturing and facility equipment that reduce the energy consumption.

• Contractors - Coordinate projects, gather safety and insurance data.

25. Advice, manage, develop, and accomplish all aspects related to Industrial Hygiene’s local legislation and employee safety, and implement corrective actions as required.

26. Develop and promote Zero Incident Safety Culture (ZISC), throughout site EHS Team and committees needed to accomplish the established targets and objectives for the year including communication programs for EHS such as: meetings, posters, emails, brochures, etc..

27. Responsible for leading Facility Risk Assessment to identify critical EHS Hazards and aspects.

28. Responsible for the development of Ergonomics analysis to prevent and mitigate risk in our personnel.

29. Performs other related duties as requested by management.

Environmental:

1. Responsible for the maintenance of the Environmental Management System (EMS).

2. Responsible for achieving annual re- certification on ISO 14001. Monitor and assure all procedures of ISO 14001 are performed in Arecibo.

3. Responsible for the Wastewater Treatment Plant regulatory compliance.

4. Supervise EHS supervisor and support Wastewater operators development plan.

5. Guide and direct others as needed to comply with environmental and safety regulations.

6. Develop continuous improvement projects oriented to reduce energy, waste, and improve environmental conservation

7. Performs other related duties as requested by management.

Physical Plant Security:

1. Responsible for the security video monitor system, follow up actions and appropriate MESH investigations (as needed) within the plant.

2. Responsible for the catastrophe prevention system for the plant: fire control system, safety alarms, fire extinguished, and fire hose.

3. Supervis