Environmental Health Safety Manager-Van Buren

EHS manager will primarily drive and support site EHS management initiatives at the Van Buren Plant in line with the global Journey to EHS Excellence.  Together with the operations, engineering, and maintenance teams, the EHS manager will improve overall safety performance of the Van Buren plant.  This position will have a broad range of responsibilities within the environmental, health, and safety area for the Van Buren site. The position may require the candidate to spend time (20 - 25%) out in the plant. This position may be required to periodically work off scheduled hours, nights, or weekends to complete critical tasks. After hours interaction with plant site or vendors may be required utilizing email, phone, text, etc.

1.      SAFETY ACCOUNTABILITIES – EHSQ CRITICAL ROLE - LEVEL 1

Protecting our people and the environment is foundational to our business.

Each team member is expected to support the Tate & Lyle culture where Environment, Health, Food Safety and Quality complies with all EHSQ policies, procedures, and regulations relevant to their work.  Team members are expected to speak up and intervene to prevent unsafe conditions and to respect fellow workers and the communities in which we work. Included in this is abidance with our Life Saving Principles (LSP’s) and our STOP WORK AUTHORITY which are developed to strengthen our workplace safety, prevent serious injury loss of life.  Responsible for quality and food safety within their realm of control.  

LEVEL 1 – ROLE

• Drive EHSQ excellence culture and improvements
• Develop/design EHSQ policies, procedures, and best practices
• Set EHSQ goals and objectives for the Van Buren plant
• EHSQMS element owner

All employees are responsible for:

• Compliance with procedures that implement the requirements of the EHSQ policies and procedures
• Being responsible for their own actions
• Carrying out their work in a manner which does not present a risk to themselves, others, and the environment
• Reporting all incidents, defects, hazards, and inadequacies of procedures so that appropriate review and corrective action can be taken.
• Suggesting improvements and being active in the general improvement of all systems and methods of work to ensure EHSQ supports activities and services are carried out in a safe, environmentally responsible, reliable, and cost-effective manner.

  ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Champion and lead the overall site environmental and safety program
• Develop and establish an effective EHS program that will yield year-on-year improvements
• Work with site management and corporate EHS to create/develop a strong safety culture at all levels of the Van Buren site organization
• Lead process safety management (PSM) and dust hazards analysis (DHA) compliance activities
• Provide technical assistance in helping with hazard elimination, prevention, and mitigation and the resolution of other safety issues
• Coach and assist manager/leaders in the development and implementation of effective safety program
• Assis and participate with department and site-wide safety teams
• Inspect, audit, and monitor equipment, work areas and work practices and procedures for compliance with established health and safety rules and regulations
• Lead the efforts to ensure action items stemming from incidents, near misses, audits, inspections, and observations are prioritized and followed up to completion
• Develop safety training, policy development, and safety promotion
• Develop and help administer e-learning courses
• Assist with new and modified processes, equipment, product development to ensure safety is included at all levels of design through implementation.
• Actively participate in the MOC (management of change) process to ensure safety and environmental aspects are covered during the MOC process.
• Participate in safety and industrial hygiene reviews, routine safety inspections and incident investigations, making appropriate recommendations
• Assist with the contract safety program by developing and ensuring the contractor training is up to date and being delivered appropriately
• Maintain accurate plant safety statistics, incident rates, progress against corporate and plant objectives and provide routine updates to global safety utilizing the safety data man