HSE Specialist

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Safety Specialist (Health, Safety & Environment) – Poplarville, MS

Major Responsibilities:

• Assists in development of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable HSE federal, state and local legislation and codes governing health, safety and environmental matters.
• Directs safety programs to ensure a safe environment is maintained and compliance with safety standards are met.
• Manages permitting, tracking and reporting for all environmental issues including water, equipment and air as applicable.
• Assesses risk potentials of workplace hazards and designs plans to mitigate employee exposure.
• Conducts on-site reviews and audits of operations and facilities.
• Interfaces with HSE regulatory agencies, including fulfilling reporting requirements.
• Monitors all current information on HSE regulations and requirements and modifies programs to meet standards.
• Ensures requirements of customer’s HSE programs are met by working directly with customer or compliance companies retained by customer.
• Ensures corrective action plan follow-ups are completed.
• Conducts accident investigation, data analysis, and recurrence prevention programs and procedures.
• Delivers employee HSE training including OSHA & MSHA required topics.
• Partners with the Human Resources Manager for workplace incident reporting and investigations.
• Investigates and evaluates all new HSE equipment.
• Responds and provides assistance to all emergency situations.
• Facilitates monthly safety committee meetings while ensuring appropriate participation amongst all departments.
• Provides monthly safety reviews during all staff meetings, in addition to any necessary training that needs to take place.
• Advises managers to establish safety objectives, plan programs to achieve those objectives and consistently integrates safety into the culture of the organization.

Other skills and abilities:

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.

• Willingness to continually embrace personal and professional development.

• Demonstrated written and oral communication skills along with strong presentation skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

• Passion for working in a values based company in alignment with a learning organization.

• Must be at least eighteen years of .

• Demonstrates a passion and a responsibility for company and product.

• Exhibits a passion for the company’s vision, values and focus on safety first.

• Desire to own decisions and take responsibility for outcomes.

• Willingness to travel 50% of the time between worksite locations.

• Working knowledge of health, safety, environmental and loss prevention procedures

• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

• Must be able to successfully pass all pre-employment testing (drug test, physical,

audiogram, and vision test) in addition to random drug and alcohol testing.

Education and/or Experience:

High School diploma or GED; Associates Degree or Bachelors Degree from a 2-4 year college or university in Risk Management, Industrial Safety and Health, Safety Engineering, Safety Management, or closely related field, is ; minimum of 2-3 years experience in HSE field preferably in manufacturing or construction, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Certification in HSE field (such as CSP, ARM, CIH, COSS, OSHA 30) is .