EHS Manager, Auburn

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As our EHS Manager at our Auburn facility, this person must have a strong understanding of applicable health and safety laws and guidelines and the ability to apply them to varied laboratory environments. In this role, you will be the liaison to our global Environmental Health & Safety organization and will lead execution of site-specific targets and objectives aligned with Donaldson's overall environmental, health and safety strategies. Our EHS managers are strong, visible leaders for creating and maintaining a culture of zero incidents. Although these roles require functional and technical knowledge, success is more dependent on providing information and tools that people need to do their jobs in a compliant, incident-free manner. Although this role requires functional and technical knowledge, success is more dependent on providing information and tools that people need to do their jobs in a compliant, incident-free manner. This individual must be able to work out of our Auburn, AL facility.

Role Responsibilities:

• Leads the implementation and maintenance of EHS risk assessment tools designed to identify, prioritize and control exposures to health and safety hazards or environmental impacts that can result in harm to people, property, or the environment.

•  Leads the creation of annual, environmental, health and safety targets and objectives for the site to measurably reduce exposure to the site’s most significant health and safety risks and environmental impacts.

• Identifies action-based EHS goals for site leadership team members and supervisors to support achievement of site-specific EHS targets and objectives.

• Leads the post incident review of high-consequence EHS incidents and ensures that corrective and preventive actions addressing root causes are effectively deployed.

• Develops and maintains site-specific compliance assurance processes to facilitate the prompt completion of EHS-related compliance, training and preventive maintenance obligations.

• Leads the deployment of employee-directed environmental, health and safety teams and facilitates their engagement in ownership of the activities that enable a compliant, incident-free workplace while reducing the site’s environmental footprint.

• Manages development and maintenance of training processes to ensure that required environmental, health and safety training is defined, addresses required content and is tracked to completion.

• Coordinates utilization of Donaldson’s change management process to evaluate potential health and safety hazards and environmental impacts associated with business activity changes. May provide functional advice or training to other company locations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in an EHS-related field (Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, Engineering or related discipline)

• 5+ years of EHS experience, ideally focused on safety.

• 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing, distribution, or laboratory environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree preferred.

• Professional certification (CSP, CIH, CFPS, CHMM or country equivalent) preferred.

• Experience with OSHA 30 or OSHA 511 standards would be beneficial for this role.

• Solid MS Office skills

Key words: EHS, environmental, safety, manager, OSHA

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