Health, Safety and Environmental Specialist

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IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you! Job Description IKO Industries Ltd. is a market leader in the manufacturing of roofing and building materials. IKO is a Canadian owned and operated business with production facilities worldwide and has many years of unparalleled success in the roofing materials industry. Quality, integrity, and trustworthiness are the values that underlie this success, and we have built this company by hiring people who hold these values. People like you! Job Description This position will be responsible for the day to day implementation and continuous improvement of Health & Safety programs, and maintaining all State and Federal environmental programs and report requirements. The Health, Safety & Environmental Engineer position provides technical and professional support services to operations and reports directly to the local Plant Manager and functionally to the Director of Health, Safety & Environmental. This is an on the floor, high visibility position. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Implement safe working techniques and reinforce the safety policies, guidelines and procedures as set out by IKO and all regulatory agencies. Provide daily guidance and direction in EHS programs. Team player able to build and maintain relationships, communicate and function well within his/her peer group. Must have excellent communication skills throughout all levels of the organization. Actively coaches peers, salaried and hourly employees on expected and acceptable safety behaviors and activities on the shop floor to improve and attain a goal of zero incidents. Provide advice, assist, and audit line management to ensure that EH&S policies and procedures are implemented and working as intended. Anticipates, identifies, evaluates and works to implement solutions to hazardous conditions and practices. Responsible for investigations of possible losses; evaluating the risk in such loss exposure; developing and implementing a plan to correct or prevent a loss and audit the plan to ensure its effectiveness. Focal point for Corporate H&S, Environmental, and Loss Prevention Audits. Responsible for preparing and maintaining all plant environmental and regulator records. Ensuring that reports are completed on time and ready for the Plant Manager's review and signature. Responsible for ensuring that the Plant Manager is immediately informed of any regulatory compliance issues with the Plant. Collaborates with Plant and Process Engineers to identify and track engineered safety solutions to eliminate unsafe conditions. Provides hands-on guidance to Plant leadership & Supervisors regarding incident reporting/investigation program to ensure company standards and processes are met. Reviews incidents to ensure Root Cause Analysis is completed to prevent reoccurrences and drive corrective actions through health checks. Evaluates, monitors, and approves the safe installation or modification of new or existing equipment including application of FLRA and JHA/JSA. Applies and uses hierarchy of controls to eliminate hazards and reduce risks in the facility or site. Implements, administers and advises others on hazard control programs for their respective Plant(s). Lead coordination of inspections by regulatory agencies, ensure deficiencies are minimized and corrected and present findings and corrections to Plant Manager. Maintain all logs and documentation associated with regulatory requirements. Monitors legislative changes then assesses and makes recommendations based on their potential impact to the business. Supports the development of SOPs, JHA/JSA, maintains Plant training calendar and ensures training records are maintained per regulatory requirements. Conducts employee safety training for EHS as required using appropriate training materials (hands-on, PowerPoints, props, etc.) and performs safety evaluations, site level self-audits, run site safety committee and ergonomics programs. Maintain working relationships with Regulatory Agencies, to include participation in industry specified organization. Administer the local hearing conservation program per regulatory requirements and adherence to HIPAA's Privacy Rule. Collaborates with peer group to ensure facility monthly safety inspections are being completed on time. Makes recommendations to remedy noted deficiencies. In conjunction with Human Resources provides internal support for Workers' Compensation cases and adherence to HIPAA's Privacy Rule. Conducts new hire safety on-boarding for new employees. Maintain metrics in accordance with company requirements. Education and Ex