Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager

Company Description

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2024 were $8.8 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Job Description

We are currently seeking an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager to join our apparel manufacturing plant in Liverpool, NY. This is a key role where you will develop, implement, and maintain the facility's EHS programs and create site-specific procedures. Your main goal will be to ensure we're fully compliant with all regulatory requirements and company initiatives.

In this role, you will report directly to the Operations Manager, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the EHS Regional Manager.

Responsibilities

Environment, Health and Safety

• Owning, creating and driving a proactive culture of safety, across all functions that is adaptable to the challenges of a large, growing manufacturing organization.

• Lead in a manner consistent with Avery Dennison Values and Code of Conduct, living our culture through every day interactions and communications.

• Organizing and controlling the EHS functions of the site in a collaborative manner to ensure that best in class accident prevention programs are created and maintained.

• Implementing environmental, health and safety education and training to support regulatory and business requirements.

• Investigating all releases, injuries and near-misses.

• Managing Job Safety Analysis and PPE compliance program.

• Maintaining the facility's compliance records for permits. Reviewing applicable regulation changes that impact permits and/or compliance.

• Managing the safety program to assure compliance with corporate standards

• Ensure our facility and that of our outsource partners is compliant to our customer audit regulations. 

• Identifying and evaluating hazardous conditions and practices and developing hazard control practices and programs.

• Actively manage a contractor safety program

• Coordinate periodic industrial hygiene monitoring of noise, air quality and other IH levels.

• Reviewing plant incident statistics and making recommendations for correction of problem areas.

• Conducting periodic risk assessments of plant machinery, equipment, and working conditions to ensure conformance to appropriate safety and sanitary standards and regulations.

• Provide advice, assist, and audit the front line leadership to ensure that effective EHS is implemented and working

• Maintain working relationships with Regulatory Agencies and chair or co- chair and lead the Safety Committees.

• Assist with maintaining the Site Preparedness and Emergency Plans & Procedures.

• Review Federal, State and local regulation changes that impact permits and permit compliance. 

• Coordinates and resolves regulatory issues with customers to meet business requirements and regulatory compliance.

• Identifies and evaluates hazardous conditions and practices and develop hazard control practices and programs.  Maintain MSDS system.

• Reviews proposed CERs and approve them from a EHS perspective.   Works closely with Engineering and Maintenance departments ensuring EHS compliance of projects and equipment. 

Reporting & Documentation

• Requirements include integration of environmental, health and safety management systems with engineering and program documentation and schedules to maintain regulatory compliance and safe operating conditions.

• Reduce liability within a facility and ensure all safety and environmental recommendations are completed and documented.

• Compile process safety information for each covered process and keep readily accessi