Safety Engineer - EHS/PSM

JOB DESCRIPTION

At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont.

The Electronics & Industrial (E&I) business, which is a part of Dupont Specialty Products is looking for motivated senior safety engineering professional to support its flagship manufacturing site located in Circleville, Ohio. This role is embedded within our Vespel® Production Unit and will provide day to day EHS and PSM support to the Unit along with setting strategic direction for EHS improvement in the Unit. Significant new assets were recently brought online at the Circleville Site, and other significant investments are underway. The site proudly maintains OSHA VPP “Star” certification and is ISO certified.

The DuPont Circleville Site includes several businesses within the DuPont company including the Electronics & Industrial business which is a technology leader with a unique depth and breadth of knowledge, applications and technical expertise, and product portfolio. Our products serve the semiconductor, advanced chip packaging, circuit board, electronic and industrial finishing, photovoltaic, display, and digital and flexographic printing industries. Electronics & Industrial is a leading innovator with unmatched materials integrations expertise, built upon our recognized strong customer relationships and our global market presence.

This safety-focused role will develop, implement, evaluate, and maintain safety programs, policies, and processes to achieve an injury-free workplace and regulatory compliance. This position reports to the EHS Regional Hub Leader and takes additional guidance from the Vespel® Unit Manager.

Your Key Responsibilities :

Develop, facilitate, and promote employee Workplace safety and safety improvement. Support OSHA Recordkeeping and injury / illness case management.

Implement workplace EHS requirements, processes / procedures as well as establish safety expectations. Communicate and coordinate guidelines for employee and contractor safety awareness.

Recommend improvements and standardization to practices and procedures to ensure safe and healthy work conditions and maintain right to operate (environmental compliance).

Conduct and / or review job safety analyses and processes to identify and mitigate EHS issues, including ergonomic and occupational health risks. Provides compliance advice for hazard prevention and risk-control principles and strategies.

Track, calculate, and report health and safety metrics.

Conduct or participate in Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews (PSSR’s).

Ensure timely reporting, classification, and investigation of EHS incident or near miss events and communicate key learnings from environmental, health and safety events.

Complete regulatory submissions, notifications, etc. required to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local EHS requirements. Interact with EHS agency for inspections and regulatory advocacy.

Drive EHS audit program to examine compliance with regulations and conformance with corporate standards and other related commitments. Ensure the tracking to closure of corrective and improvement actions taken in response to audit findings. Perform data analysis of the results.

Lead, develop or coordinate training programs to increase proficiency in EHS practices and promote awareness.

Lead specialized work streams or be called upon to participate in other safety networks or committees within the organization. Deliver Safety Engineering Improvements that improve everyday operation / maintenance in the Unit (e.g. Ergonomics)

Keep the line organization appraised in making timely adjustments and continuously improve performance indicators through statistical analysis, performance metrics (leading and lagging indicators), monitoring results, etc. for organization’s EHS programs.

Work with the broader Circleville EHS Team and Regional EHS Hub to standardize policies and procedures and leverage best practices across the Hub sites.

Facilitate Process Safety Management Program for the Unit and provide focused expertise on certain PSM Elements

Drive Environmental Management Systems

Your Qualification Profile :

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering with safety experience and / or Occupational Health and Safety or affiliated discipline or another applicable technical field, Industrial Health and Safety,

5 years of professional experience working in manufacturing or chemical industry in a safety engineering role is required

Ability to work independently, contribute within a team, and actively engage and partner with manufacturing and technical associates.

EHS functional / technical expertise with strong knowledge of safe work practices (including OSHA Regulations), auditing, record keeping, investigation / RCFA, regulatory permitting and preparing / delivering training.

Experience knowledge of industrial hygiene principles and monitoring techniques

Organizational priority-setting skills, attention to detail, follow-through, effective written and verbal communication skills in English.

Ability to build consensus and influence a diverse group of associates in safe behaviors and practices.

Working knowledge of Environmental regulations.

Experience with EHS Management Systems (eg ISO)

Process Safety Management experience

Project implementation

Procedure development

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