Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Spherion is seeking an Environmental Health Safety Specialist for a 3-6 month contract in Carpinteria, CA. The role involves supporting EHS efforts, ensuring compliance with regulations, developing policies, and coordinating safety programs. Responsibilities include incident tracking, risk assessments, and managing environmental permits. The position requires close collaboration with management to improve safety culture and achieve EHS goals. US citizenship or lawful permanent residency is preferred due to ITAR regulations.
Our client, an electronics manufacturer in Carpinteria, has an exciting and immediately available contracted need (3-6 months) for a qualified Environmental, Safety and Health (EHS) Lab Analyst to support EHS efforts for their Carpinteria, CA facility. This position will report into the Engineering Manager and is responsible for guiding and building EH&S programs to establish a zero injury and environmental defect culture.
• This is a contract position expected to last 3-6 months*

Description:

The EHS Analyst is responsible for supporting activities related to environmental, safety and health at the site and ensures compliance with federal, state, and local requirements and laws to prevent hazards and injuries. Site is lacking significantly in EHS documentation and need someone who can apply a full-time effort to get all documentation completed quickly. Focus on safety scope of EH&S (not environmental).

Responsibilities:

• Provide a working interface between the facilities, Business Unit Management, and the Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety Department.

• Develop policies, standards and procedures and work with management to ensure implementation and uniform compliance with regards to federal, state, local and company regulations throughout the facility.

• Coordinate reporting, tracking, root cause and trend analysis of workplace incidents, injuries and illnesses as well as environmental incidents. Create corrective actions and assign to responsible parties as necessary.

• Create, provide guidance and improve JSA and Risk assessments. Ensure that all routine tasks have been captured in the JSA’s and understand when to utilize a non-routine risk assessment.

• Work with management to set short (annual) and long term (3-5 year) goals for safety, health and environmental system improvements which include suitable reductions in injury and illness and environmental incidents.

• Facilitate and direct efforts to meet or exceed the goals.

• Provide guidance to the management team for continuous improvement for the overall safety culture.

• Work with site resources to plan, administer and track multiple safety programs including hazardous communication, contractor safety, machine guarding, behavioral based safety, powered industrial truck, electrical safety, and other safety policies/procedures.

• Facilitate and provide guidance and expertise in safety, health and environmental activities (following the Hierarchy of Controls) such as workplace inspections, new/existing equipment risk assessments, and industrial hygiene surveys. Work standardize all EHS documentation.

• Manage facility environmental permits, track annual energy reduction projects and monthly safety and environmental metrics.

• Responsible for planning, implementing, maintaining, and monitoring the EH&S management system tool.

• Oversee the management of change (MOC) process to include any process changes and new or transferred equipment.

• Assist or lead internal or external audits as needed.

• Participate in internal and external audits, provide corrective actions, assign responsibility, and track to closure.

• Generate reports, distribute, and log data in VelocityEHS as needed.

What Your Background Should Look Like

• Due to ITAR regulations, current US citizenship or US Lawful Permanent Residency (green card) is preferred to apply for this position.

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental or safety science or other related technical field and 3-5 years of EH&S working experience or a combination of education and experience is preferred.

• Behavioral Based Safety experience

• Knowledge of environmental permitting

• Working knowledge of industrial ergonomics

• Ability to work with and mange safety initiatives across several BU’s and management teams.

• Written and verbal communication skills to facilitate communication with Business Unit Management, laboratory staff, and shop floor personnel including ability to prepare and deliver presentations.

• Experience managing electrical and chemical safety programs