Sr SHE&S Specialist

Sr. SHE Specialist – ATC

The Sr. SHE&S Specialist will oversee the safety, environmental, and health initiatives for the Synthomer Akron Technology Center as well as other sites and company initiatives as assigned.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate the Akron Technology Center SHE&S/RCMS management system and serves as facilitator of site safety committee.
• Establish and maintain site specific SHE&S policies, programs and procedures that ensure compliance with all applicable Synthomer, federal, state, and local regulations and corporate standards.
• Maintains and monitors current information and educates site leadership and employees to ensure site compliance on government SHE regulations and corporate policy.
• Tracks reported hazards, action items, and ensures timely follow up and communication to stake holders regarding corrective actions.
• Prepares required reports, plans, and other government SHE&S filings and ensures timely and accurate submission.
• Maintains the environmental compliance programs including hazardous waste.
• Ensures industrial hygiene monitoring for identified hazardous risk such as: air, noise, dust, etc.
• Evaluate jobs (JSA’s) for possible ergonomic and other safety improvements and engineering improvements and implement these work design changes with appropriate team members.
• Actively investigate all incidents and near misses, identifies root causes, risk rank all corrective/preventive and ensures they are implemented.
• Lead the Emergency Response Team and maintain an up-to-date emergency response procedure.
• Coordinates and ensure execution of sites’ safety efforts including training, audits, required health screens, workman’s compensation, accident investigations, and general safety awareness.
• Supports the local site management team with: development and achievement of SHE&S annual performance goals; OSHA and regulatory requirement compliance; coordination of site safety committee initiatives and behavioral/area audits; hazard analysis and recognition; risk ranking and execution of critical safety projects
• Actively participate in projects and SHE efforts at other sites as requested
• Interact with the site workforce at all levels to demonstrate, educate and enforce safe work practices.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Chemistry, Polymer Engineering, or similar science or engineering degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years demonstrated safety experience required. Preferably in a manufacturing or laboratory environment.
• Minimum of 1 year of laboratory experience (including intern/co-op) required.
• Must be proficient in serving as a change agent and working with the organization/ management to change safety culture.
• High energy, productive, team player
• Working knowledge of OSHA regulations.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret regulations, professional journals, technical procedures and technical results.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be an independent, self-motivated individual with the ability to multi-task and administer a broad range of duties.
• Ability to coach, teach and counsel and be comfortable speaking to groups at different organizational levels.
• Must be able to work independently without day-to-day supervision.
• Must be comfortable in dealing with SHE&S issues in the laboratory environment and working with all levels of employees (from front-line employees to senior management).
• Competent with the Microsoft Office suite of programs (i.e. Word, Excel, and Outlook) and safety and health management systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential. Must be able to compose clear and concise written communications without error or omission. Must be able to verbally communicate with a wide range of people in a clear and concise manner. Must be able to address team using terminology of laboratory environments.
• Must be watchful and highly vigilant, maintaining high ethical standards.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with effective health and safety management systems including RCMS and ISO
• Able to understand and execute processes including risk ranking, rapid problem solving, effective project management, hazard analysis, permitting, management of change (MOC), pre-start up safety review (PSSR), and required permitting
• RCRA Hazardous Waste Generator Training
• HazWoper Training
  
  

Why Synthomer?

We are ambitious!

We have grown significantly – both organically and inorganically. We are a FTSE 250 listed company, 22% of our revenue comes from newly commercialized products, and we’re recognized in the top-quartile for chemicals manufacturing safety.

We believe in high challenge, high support!

We are keen to let you contribute in real roles from day 1. We expect a lot, but offer a lot, too. This includes onboarding, induction and learning events, networking opportunities, mentoring and personal development planning. So, be up for an inspiring long-term career adventure.

We personalize our approach to development!

At Synthomer, you won't find generic career tracks or development programs but rather a one-size-fits-one approach to employee development. We'll partner with you to ensure you have the right experiences that build your capabilities and accelerate your career growth.