What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist position at Hanwha Advanced Materials GA?
General Job Description
The EHS Specialist will support the Environmental, Health, and Safety department and maintain a safe and compliant facility.
Every associate at Hanwha has an obligation to contribute equally to hold others accountable and improve processes and systems. This will eventually ensure superior quality of products and services. Total Quality management is a joint effort of management and team members in order to exceed customer satisfaction levels.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist with the development, review, and implementation of EHS programs.
- Maintains EHS record-keeping systems.
- Responds to environmental incidents and assist with all abatement efforts through completion.
- Provides resources and information to production.
- Assists in the investigation of all EHS incidents.
- Participates in the Safety Committee.
- Assist with developing, implementing, and maintaining EHS training programs.
- Review all written programs to ensure they are updated when personnel or physical changes affect those programs. All employees are trained for these changes, and annual training is given to affected employees.
- Prepares government-mandated reports and ensures they are submitted in a timely manner.
- Assist with hazardous waste activities, including storage containers, weekly hazardous waste container inspections, disposal of hazardous waste in accordance with all local, State, and Federal rules and regulations, hazardous waste handling, training, and record retention.
- Maintain constant awareness of changing regulations, ensuring the company’s Environmental, Health, and Safety policies are aligned with current laws and industry standards.
- Other duties may be assigned outside the scope of this description.
Managerial Responsibility
This position has managerial responsibility.
Work Environment
This job operates primarily in a professional office environment. Participation in events (trials, DOE, etc.) on the production floor is required. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here represent those that an associate must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to sit and use their hands to operate computer controls. The associate must frequently reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The associate is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, stoop or crouch. The associate must regularly lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 25 pounds.
Manager/Supervisor Safety Job Description
- Follow all environmental, health, and safety rules of Hanwha Advanced Materials Georgia and work in a manner that is conducive to maintaining a safe and healthful workplace for all employees, visitors, and contractors.
- Report all accidents or spills immediately.
- Attend all safety-related training sessions as required.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. on a frequent basis and up to 50 lbs. on an infrequent basis.
- Cooperate with all local, State, and Federal agencies, such as OSHA, EPA, in the event of an inspection.
- Always use appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to set good workplace standards and ensure all employees maintain those standards.
- Ability to work with and around chemicals, dust, and other substances.
- Do not operate any equipment, or machinery, or perform any job task unless you have completed documented training.
- Do not modify or bypass any safety-related system on equipment or machinery.
- Complete all pre-operational safety checklists prior to operating any equipment or machinery.
- Good vision at a close distance is required.
- Must be capable of performing repetitive motion at or below shoulder height for up to 12 hours.
- Respond immediately in a positive and proactive manner to any Hanwha Advanced Materials Georgia employee’s Health and Safety concern or suggestion.
- Ensure all employees under your guidance have received all required training to safely perform their job.
- Ensure that all accidents are properly reported, and accident investigations are completed within 48 hours.
- Understand employee’s rights under the OSH ACT, EEOC, FLSA and do not allow for discrimination against any employee exercising their rights.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position.
Monday-Friday, core work hours 1st shift
Flexible hours to be available.
Must be available to work weekends when requested by the Manager.
Required Education and Experience
- 5 years’ experience relevant to manufacturing/engineering degree is preferred.
- A relevant manufacturing/engineering degree is preferred.
- Extensive plant-level experience with significant proven man-management experience.
- Technical capability and understanding.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Excellent leadership and maintenance management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Excellent organizational and follow-up skills.
- Competent in problem-solving, team building, planning, and decision-making.
- Commercially aware.
Preferred/Desired:
- Need to be able to work in a fast-paced, high-speed environment, follow standardized work, and adhere to safe work practices in a continuously improving environment.
- Experience in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
- The ability to work with components that are in constant motion along a production line without adverse effects.
- The ability to work on a team of co-workers in close proximity to each other.
- The ability to make timely decisions and provide feedback to each other.
- Have a strong desire for personal and professional development.
Other Duties
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the associate for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.
