Regional Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Leader

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Where is the work:

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

 

 

Job Summary:

Safety-focused business partner in providing strategic consultation and leadership in the development of comprehensive safety management systems. This position must implement effective training initiatives, provide targeted risk analysis, and audit programs to measure efficacy. This position provides proactive leadership to all regional Trane employees, manages environmental health, safety and security activities, programs and incident prevention activities, and ensures compliance with Trane, local, state, provincial and national requirements. The position establishes and promotes a strong safety culture and a healthy work environment.

Responsibilities:

· Inspire employee action affecting the leading indicators, including employee involvement and management commitment.

· Lead and manage Regional EHS team

· Participate as an active member of the Upper Midwest Regional Leadership Team, supporting the regional operations success.

· Position is accountable to the Senior North America Field Operations EHS Leader and dotted line to the operations Regional General Manager (V.P.).

· Provide support for other Company teams as needed and directed, including North America and Enterprise EHS support.

· Proactively lead and coordinate environmental health, safety and security process efforts for the region, including, but not limited to Commercial Sales Office locations and Rental Services located in: the Upper Midwest, and remote Trane teams as directed by the North America EHS leader or operations Regional leader. Coordinated support of Trane Supply stores may also be required.

· Develop, implement and measure the success of safety programs, strategies, policies, training, and procedures in alignment with Corporate and Business Unit expectations.

· Ensures accountability and interactions between stakeholders and leadership.

· Uses established EHS data processes to lead incident and illness management and report incidents, injuries and illnesses, environmental metrics, risk assessments, EHS action items and other pertinent information.

· Analyze data to lead and coordinate the safety effort for continual improvement.

· Visit job sites and dispersed workforce, Commercial Sales Offices and Rental Service locations on a regular basis to ensure effective implementation of EHS processes and programs. Identify existing or potential risks and hazards. Ensure the recommended corrective or preventative measures are completed in a timely manner.

· Oversee workers’ compensation program administration including working with all parties to aggressively manage and support transitional duty and return to work programs.

· Drive incident and near miss reporting. Perform root cause analysis of incidents and injuries to determine specific actions needed to prevent their reoccurrence, with inclusion of operations subject matter experts, business leadership, business and enterprise EHS.

· Facilitate EHS training and orientation as needed. Identify EHS related training requirements for associates and support processes to ensure training effectiveness and compliance.

· Ensure all EHS related records are accurately maintained/organized and in compliance with Trane, local, state, provincial and national requirements or any other regulatory agency rules and regulations.

· Ensure contractors and subcontractors have implemented an effective safety process by conducting pre-qualifications and by visiting/auditing job sites on a regular basis.

· Participate on business teams as needed to assist in the development of safety