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Trojan Battery Company · 1 month ago

Support Manager, EH&S

Sandersville, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Trojan Battery Company is a passionate organization committed to customer focus and safety. The Support Manager, EH&S is responsible for managing and coordinating the company's safety and environmental programs, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering a culture of safety and innovation within the team.

BatteryElectronicsManufacturing

Responsibilities

Coordinates the safety programs to ensure a safe environment consistent with regulatory, environmental, and company requirements and needs

Promotes the company mission, philosophy, goals, and objectives by formulating plans, procedures, and objectives for safety programs and by evaluating effectiveness of the program

Creates and maintains a work environment that encourages open communication and positive employee relations to establish a climate of openness and trust

Seeks out opportunities for staff involvement and innovation to promote employee creativity and to generate ideas to improve functions, devise solutions, and implement plans

Supervises the staff that maintains the water treatment and wastewater equipment, ensuring compliance with State and Federal environmental protection limits

Prepares reports and maintains logs for water treatment systems on meter readings, tests, chemical and equipment usage, and all other record-keeping requirements

Builds a cohesive team with the skills necessary to successfully meet the departmental/company objectives and strategies

Oversees the communication of training information in a formal classroom setting, and conducts on-the-job training on various safety, health and environmental programs

Keeps various safety and environmental records and logbooks up to date

Supports, as needed, the manager with overseeing high-cost or precedent-setting workers’ compensation cases

Is required to assist with cost-control efforts, participate in manufacturing improvement committees and support the engineering projects from an EH&S perspective

Interfaces with OSHA, and various environmental programs inspectors

Provides assistance to the manager with new and revised safety programs, JSA’s, and rules

Responsible for effective application of safety and environmental policies and practices and to investigate and eliminate hazardous conditions and unsafe practices

Develop a complete understanding of work operations, details of nature of the work, materials and equipment used, products and byproducts, and employee workforce profile

Complete industrial hygiene studies for exposure to dust, fumes, mists, gases, vapors, noise, heat, and cold

Assesses new developments in the safety and environmental field that may have application to the company's operations

Keeps apprised of developments in federal and state safety and applicable environmental laws likely to affect the company

Coordinates safety and industrial hygiene to obtain optimum service with insurance carriers

Investigates serious injuries/incidents in conjunction with line and staff personnel, Human Resources and Occupational Health Nurse

Assists line and staff management to understand OSHA regulations and standards, including guidance on handling OSHA compliance, inspections and citations

Manages and maintains appropriate permitting requirements

Evaluates performance, provides feedback, and completes performance reviews

Supervises direct reports and trains light technical and hourly personnel in performing supporting tasks

Qualification

Environmental HealthSafetyOSHA regulationsSafety program managementCSP certificationCIH certificationMicrosoft Office proficiencyFirst aid/CPR instructorForklift instructor certifiedBilingual SpanishEffective communication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety or related field or equivalent experience

5-8 years' experience

Working knowledge of safety regulations, OSHA, EPA, hazardous materials, and emergency preparedness

Willingness to travel to other plants on an occasional basis

Proficient with Microsoft Word Excel, PowerPoint and Access

Effective written and verbal communication skills are essential

Preferred

Bilingual Spanish

CSP and/or CIH

First aid/CPR instructor

Forklift instructor certified

Successful completion of, and hold certificates or be licensed in, courses such as hazmat technician, emergency responder, water treatment operation, and other safety and environmental topics