Site Leader, Environmental & Sustainability (New Milford, Connecticut)

The Site Leader, Environmental & Sustainability position at The Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association in New Milford, CT, involves providing strategic leadership in occupational health and safety. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with legal requirements, managing risks, and driving continuous improvement in safety results. The role promotes a performance culture focused on sustainability and career development, with flexible (hybrid) work arrangements available.
Overview

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Kimberly-Clark Professional. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
Summary of Position

As an integral part of the Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) team, the Site Occupational Health & Safety Lead assumes a leadership position, spearheading Kimberly-Clark’s (K-C) commitment to Better Care for a Better World. This role provides strategic leadership specifically for the occupational health and safety aspects of OH&S and E&S programs and systems, focusing on the company’s moderately complex locations. The primary objective is to ensure strategic alignment with K-C OH&S and E&S Standards and compliance with local legal requirements.

Through influence without authority and/or direct reporting relationships, the position works collaboratively to identify and direct appropriate process and systems that elevate site program maturity, effectively manage risks, and deliver continuous improvement in occupational health and safety results. Site Health & Safety Lead may have local staff to assist in delivering on accountabilities and typically report to Mill/Site Managers.

In this role, you will:
Responsibilities
• Legal Compliance Management: Interpret, understand, and continuously monitor/manage changing implications of relevant legal requirements applicable to site activities and operations.
• Complex Risk Assessment: Able to identify and understand complex occupational health and safety hazards, assess associated risks, and develop similar skills and capabilities in others.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Stay skilled in pertinent occupational health and safety subjects, particularly those covered by K-C OH&S and E&S Performance Standards and linked to operation-specific risks.
• Leadership in Incident Management: Participate in occupational health and safety incident investigations and conduct causal analyses while building similar skills and capabilities in others.
• Training Development and Delivery: Develop, deliver, and train others across a broad spectrum of OH&S and E&S topics relevant to moderately complex operations.
• Program Maturity Assessments: Conduct routine checks/self-assessments of the site's occupational health and safety program maturity and performance in moderately complex operations.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrate relevant leadership skills related to accountability, positive role modeling, and commitment as per the Leadership Curriculum.
• Technological Acumen: Leverage data and digital systems/platforms to improve decision-making and problem-solving. Address technological advancements, such as automation, as relevant to tasks/duties of the role.
• Project Management and Change Management: Exhibit capabilities in project management and managing change effectively.
• Lean Mindset and Collaboration: Role model a lean mindset, emphasizing continuous improvement and value to the customer. Embrace a "go to where the work happens" attitude. Demonstrate strong collaboration and relationship-building skills.
• Manufacturing Planning/Execution/Capital Allocation: Possess familiarity with manufacturing planning, execution, and capital allocation processes.
Key Decisions/Decision Rights

Decision rights for this role relate primarily to escalation (to Regional/BU and Global OH&S and E&S leadership) of any potential conditions that cannot be appropriately resolved locally and are associated with potential:
• Non-conformance/non-compliance with K-C and regulatory controls and requirements related to OH&S and E&S.
• EHS risks or impacts that may not be managed to acceptable levels.
• Ineffective corrective/preventative actions specified to address OH&S and E&S events/subsequent investigations.
• Ineffective controls to provide quality and complete OH&S and E&S data for compliance/conformance purposes.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, or a related field.
• 7 plus years of experience in safety, occupational health and industrial hygiene management within a manufacturing environment, with a focus on legal compliance, risk management, and adherence to company standards.
• Qualifications required by local regulatory authorities if any.
• At least 3 plus years of experience in a leadership, management, or supervisory role.
• Strong communications, interpersonal skills with ability to engage at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to influence behaviors/outcomes w/o direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
• Pursuing or possessing relevant Professional Certifications (e.g., PE, CIH, CSP, HMM, NEBOSH, etc.).
• Previous experience with a consumer products organization.

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Salary: USD 72000 - 108000 per year

Experience: 5 years required