Environmental Health and Safety Technician
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Fort Smith
Posted on: October 29, 2024
Job Description:
OverviewResponsible for the development and implementation of
plant-wide team efforts in improving key performance indicators
such as reducing blood lead averages, recordable injuries, lost
time injuries, government compliance, and conducting, sampling and
analysis of air, water and wipe media consistent with business
goals. Additionally, supports, guides and ensures plant staff,
employees, contractors, their employees, agents, and/or
subcontractors perform their jobs in a safe and in environmentally
responsible ways that reduces risk of exposure and / or other
physical or chemical hazards. ResponsibilitiesTo perform this job
successfully an individual must be able to perform each duty
satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other
duties may be assigned.
- Meet or exceed the requirements of national, state and local
EHS laws and regulations, as well as our controls, practices and
standards.
- Collect data on work environments for analysis.
- Implement and conduct evaluation of programs designed to limit
chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic risks to
workers.
- Support sound EHS engineering controls, work practices,
management practices and personal protective equipment (PPE) to
protect and safeguard all people, equipment and environment at risk
during our manufacturing process, specifically employee injuries
(recordable and lost time), employee blood lead levels, permit
compliance, and environmental hazards.
- Recommend corrective measures to be applied based on results of
EHS program analyses and plant history.
- Continuously strive to eliminate injuries, reduce blood lead
levels and protect the environment by developing, implementing and
maintaining appropriate EHS standards, controls, and
practices.
- Monitor our EHS auditing program to assure compliance with
regulatory requirements and internal standards.
- Work towards EHS goals to reduce injuries, employee blood lead
levels and all forms of waste and monitor progress.
- Monitor and keep up to date on emerging environmental, health
and safety issues, regulations and technology changes.
- Strive for continuous improvement by learning from our results,
using tools like Six Sigma Projects and Kaizen events, as well as
sharing best practices and lessons learned.
- Interface with regulatory agencies and divisional personnel to
support safety, health and environmental efforts in the plant.
- Provide training on EHS guidelines and assistance as
required.
- Interact with outside vendors as necessary to ensure compliance
with regulatory requirements and internal standards. Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
preferred and/or 3 to 4 years EHS field in a related industry with
experience working with local regulatory agencies are
preferred.
- Ten years experience in industrial manufacturing environment
with excellent track record of business results and increasingly
higher levels of responsibility in line operations or engineering
leadership roles
- Three to four years experience in leading EHS continuous
improvement efforts and projects at the site level.
- Experience working in a union manufacturing plant, CSP or CIH
certifications are a plus.Competencies, Skills, Knowledge:
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Suite products, specifically
Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to give and
share information to/with co-workers, customers and production
management in order to achieve optimum plant performance
- Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to
specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of
information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding
a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is
wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the
problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and
subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in
person.
- Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine
whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or
standards.
- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating,
recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in
circumstances or events.
- Being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a
good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being
understanding and helpful on the job.OTHER CATEGORIES AS REQUIRED:
- The physical demands and work environment characteristics
described here are representative of those an employee encounters
while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- While performing the duties of this job, an individual is
regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle
or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
- Individuals are occasionally required to climb or balance and
stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to occasionally lift a minimum 25 lbs and 26 to 150 lbs
with assistance of equipment
- Regular use of safety glasses and steel toed shoes. Limited use
of respirator, and other personal protective equipment (PPE) as
required. Vision requirements: close vision.WORK ENVIRONMENT
- While performing the duties of this job, the individual is
regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne
particles
- Individual occasionally exposed to precarious places; toxic or
caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock
- Noise level is minimal to loud
- Regularly is working in a lead contaminated area and must wear
a uniform and safety shoes in that area to prevent the tracking and
/ or possible lead contamination of other clean areas or outside of
the regulated areas EEO StatementStryten Energy is an equal
opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are
considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other
basis prohibited by law.About StatementStryten Energy helps solve
the world's most pressing energy challenges with a broad range of
energy storage solutions across the Essential Power, Motive Power,
Transportation, Military and Government sectors. Headquartered in
Alpharetta, Georgia, we partner with some of the world's most
recognized companies to meet the growing demand for reliable and
sustainable energy storage capacity. Stryten powers everything from
submarines to subcompacts, warehouses, distribution centers, cars,
trains and trucks. Our stored energy technologies include advanced
lead and lithium batteries, intelligent chargers and cloud-based
software that keep people on the move and supply chains running. An
industry leader backed by more than a century of expertise, Stryten
has The Energy to Challenge the status quo and deliver
top-performing energy solutions for today and tomorrow. Learn more
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