Environmental, Health and Safety Lead

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You'll Do

• Responsible for maintaining the health and safety of Discover's workforce and environment by monitoring and evaluating health and safety conditions; assuring compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and governmental standards; and maintenance of the Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Programs. The primary objective is to ensure a safe and incident-free work environment including methodologies, initiatives and strategies that promote safe operations, safety awareness, training, and continuous improvement to eliminate or control unsafe behaviors, environments and hazards.

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You'll Do It

• Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations and Discover performance standards; Develop, implement and maintain safety programs to meet OSHA and Discover requirements; Oversee regulatory compliance audits/inspections and associated record keeping (EPA, OSHA, and other regulatory governing bodies, etc.); Deliver EH&S programs to train employees in work site safety practices by promoting and leading a culture where Safety is ingrained as a core value with all employees

• Establishes baseline measures for Company losses from illness, injuries and accidents by major location; Collaborates with employees to identify and implement solutions to safety issues identified in inspections and investigations to eliminate incidents and preventing recurrence; Reviews incident and injury reporting and analyzes data to identify trends

• Drives key effective, sustainable implementation of corporate EH&S initiatives, strategies, programs and procedures, responsibilities via hands on leadership, coaching and team work; Facilitate, train and coach employees from onboarding to OSHA required annual training, safety audits and other safety related topics to ensure compliance with government mandated training; Analyze EH&S programs, conditions and behaviors and recommends changes to continuously improve company wide EH&S performance

• Responsible for the assessment of the Company position relative to health and safety needs and document the requirements the company and its vendors must follow; Compliance with regulations and Company policies by routinely interacting with employees

• Provides key support with all sites Environmental policies and procedures; Provides EH&S functional and technical expertise/coaching as needed in all areas and initiatives of the function. Effectively coaches and develops facility site managers and coordinators to be effective EH&S leaders/coaches; Ensure rules and regulations are applied and notifies the business of the changes; Leads and ensures thorough investigation of all incidents, in coordination with Site leadership

• Fosters/develops a culture where everyone is actively engaged in performing their work in a safe manner and co-workers hold each other accountable to prevent at-risk behaviors

• Collaborates with other key functions on initiatives including Facilities, Engineering, HR, Corporate Communications, Quality, Risk, Operations, etc. to deliver goals and plans. In partnership with HR supports HR and Insurance with worker’s compensation claims;

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors Science, Engineering, or related

• 5+ years Demonstrated experience working in a safety and environmentally conscious manufacturing or industrial processing environment

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily move about the work e