What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environment, Health and Safety Manager position at Confidential?
Job Responsibilities:
- Maintains and ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local rules, regulations, and code standards; interprets regulations on relevant issues to provide practices practical guidance, support, and training aimed at maintaining and developing best practices.
- Directs the assessment for physical/chemical/laboratory safety and environmental protection functions; reviews with appropriate management and staff, as well as Safety Committees, to implement and execute programs for the prevention and control of EHS risks, including, but not limited to, prevention of injuries, industrial hygiene, indoor air quality, laboratory compliance, hazardous waste and EPA/OSHA compliance, records, and permits.
- Manages the receipt, storage, distribution, inventory management, and disposal of chemicals, as well as biological and hazardous waste materials.
- Establishes and monitors key performance metrics, measuring performance progress and evaluating EHS program effectiveness.
- Advises leaders on performance improvements; leads improvement initiatives; directs departments on specific regulatory safety and environmental issues by education and training programs on the requirements from federal, state, and local rules and protocols.
- Serves as our primary liaison with local government agencies regarding all environmental, occupational, and life safety issues. Serves as a local advisor to Corporate EHS leadership.
- Analyzes and develops environmental health and safety information reporting, consolidating and reporting key EHS statistics monthly, quarterly or annually, as required by outside agencies.
- Manages all EHS staff and supervises their development and progression; provides support as required to operating divisions, departments, and staff in order to be in compliance with federal, state, and local EHS requirements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Physical Science or a related field.
- Minimum of seven (3) years of related EHS job experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Physical Science or a related field.
- Ten (10) years of progressive experience in environmental health and safety is preferred.
- EHS job experience in a clinical laboratory diagnostics or MedTech industry is preferred.
- ASP/CSP, CHMM certification is preferred.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of monitoring equipment usage, remediation protocols, Indoor Air Quality principals, hazardous waste management protocols, laboratory safety practices, EPA protocols related to laboratory biohazardous waste compliance, sustainability issues and tracking for EPA requests, risk management principals, and incident investigation practices.
- Knowledge of the related trends, issues, and accepted practices in a diagnostic laboratory environment.
