VIE - HSE Specialist

An Air Liquide Healthcare company, subsidiary of the Air Liquide group, Seppic has been designing, manufacturing, and marketing unique ingredients for over 75 years. These ingredients are used by consumers, patients, and professionals.

Worldwide, a vast team of talented women and men serve customers for health, well-being, and beauty of all. At Seppic, our vision is to help everyone enjoy a healthy life in a healthy environment.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The Seppic Inc Richmond Team is composed of 55 people. Guenole LeCalvez will be the activating
Plant Manager temporarily. Guenole has been with the Seppic organization for well over 25 years
having served in various roles in France. The organizational chart is composed by a production Team
(4 production shifts), a QC/QA Team, an HR Team, a Process Engineer Team, an HSE Team and a
Maintenance team.
The HSE Team is composed of an HSE Engineer and an HSE Specialist.The plant is running 362
days/year, 24 hours with 4 shifts.

You will contribute to the development of Seppic Inc Richmond’s Health, Safety, and Environmental
(HSE) activities in compliance with local regulation and Seppic corporate requirements, in
collaboration with other site representatives and Seppic HSE direction.
You will contribute to this mission by:
● Process Safety: Managing EIS (Element Important for Safety) action plan on Seppic Inc
Richmond’s plant
● Occupational Safety: Conducting and updating the site JHA (Job Hazard Analysis)
● Supporting the local team in managing safety on a daily basis: reporting of safety events,
facilitating safety talks, sharing of good practices...
Why Join Us?
You'll join a very modern, most advanced state of the art brand new plant. You will be part of a very
dynamic team of Seppic Inc Richmond in a country (USA) where the sense of doing and making
things happen is in the DNA of every citizen.
In this background your job as HSE Specialist plays an essential and centric role. It is a job
where you have to make sure by your day to day actions that Air Liquide Safety standards are
deployed. Within all of Air Liquide Safety is our First priority. It is a pluridisciplinary job
requiring agility, curiosity, sense of contact with many different people, analytical skills,
passion and finally a strong ability to create and make things happen for improving safety
(preventive and corrective actions). In a nutshell: a great job where your job will be to
contribute to the process and occupational safety in the plant. It is also a job with a lot of
interaction with all the members of the plant.

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Are you a MATCH?

Education:
● Master’s Degree in Engineering
● Specialization in Process Safety if possible

Soft skills:
● Responsive and responsible team player
● Strong written and verbal communication skills including a high level of comfort developing
and delivering training and motivational presentations to all levels of associates is a must
● Ability to resume situations, to share information, and to report if required
● Ability to adapt to a different cultural environment

Hard Skills:
● Occupational and Process Safety
● Chemistry / Industrial processes (understands P&IDs)
● Knowledge of safety regulation in USA (EPA, OSHA, PSM, DOT) is a plus
● MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE

Languages:
● English fluency is Must have
● French is Nice to have

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.