Manager, Environmental Health & Safety

Description

SUMMARY

The Regional EHS Manager provides full regional support and leadership to the Southern Region sites. The ideal candidate thrives in a changing and dynamic environment and possess the ability to direct, plan, establish, and implement a variety of programs and initiatives to assure the highest possible degree of safety for employees, contractors, visitors, plant facilities, and equipment. This position takes a leadership role in the implementation of activities and best practices that focus on the prevention of pollution and incidents while creating a safe working environment for all employees, contractors, and visitors to the sites. The position requires an experienced professional with excellent communication, organizational and multi-tasking skills.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Develop, implement, and manage the necessary training programs and systems to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and company requirements.
• Leads environmental aspects of company operations, such as, compliance, reporting, monitoring, remediation, and environmental permitting functions.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with regulatory officials to ensure good working relationships between Sharps and the various governmental agencies.
• Responsibilities also include EHS communication, the sharing of best practices, learning from EHS incidents, leverage of EHS training programs and the sharing of EHS experience and knowledge across the company.
• Monitors and analyzes EHS policies and regulations that affect the company and its customers.
• Actively drive efforts to continually improve the EHS performance by conducting audits, inspections, safety walk-arounds and preparing relevant data for management review
• Take a proactive leadership role in identifying and resolving environmental and safety issues that may arise.
• Audit, monitor, track and report compliance with state, federal, and other regulatory requirements; managing and reducing compliance risks.
• Develop, implement, and manage the necessary training programs and systems to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and company requirements.
• Collaborate with local management on investigations for near misses, injuries, and incidents.
• Manage suppliers, vendors, and consultants, including direct supervision as needed.
• Provide guidance to employees on the organization’s compliance policies and programs, and educate staff on applicable compliance rules, regulations, and best practices.
• Stay abreast with the US Health, Safety and Compliance laws, regulations, and enforcement environment, and understand how they impact the organization.
• Profile infectious waste according to applicable regulatory requirements, using SDS sheets, GHS HazCom criteria, etc. to ensure proper containment, storage, transport, and treatment (per CDC, NIH, and OSHA; and DOT Hazard Class, UN No., Waste Codes, properties, and characteristics). 
• Perform drug formulary audits to assist customers in proper identification and segregation of pharmaceutical waste.
• Report compliance issues and collaborate with local management to identify CAPA plans.
• Provide timely and accurate reports when required. 

Requirements

Requirements (Education and Experience):

• Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree in a safety or business discipline required.
• Must have 7+ years related experience in a manufacturing and/or processing environment, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Experience in conducting compliance audits (EPA, DOT, OSHA).
• Excellent interpersonal, planning, organizational, time management, and communication skills
• Ability to influence others through coaching and behavior modeling by being clear, open, fair, honest, supplying resources as needed, and listening effectively.
• Possess general knowledge and proficiency in general business and the ability to use computer applications, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, databases, and email programs.
• Possess the ability to read and analyze OSHA, DOT, EPA and DEA regulations/guidance.
• Extensive knowledge regarding DEA’s Ultimate User disposal program regulations and requirements.
• Extensive knowledge about DEA’s inventory medication disposal regulations and requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of each state’s regulated medical and pharmaceutical regulations.
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