Safety, Health, and Environmental Manager

Elias Associates Inc is seeking a Safety, Health, and Environmental Manager for their facility near Lake Charles, LA. The role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, leading safety improvement initiatives, managing environmental compliance, and collaborating with plant leadership. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 10 years of experience in process industries. This position is full-time and not remote.
Global chemical company seeks a Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) Manager for their Louisiana facility. This plant is 45 minutes north of Lake Charles
The Safety, Health, and Environmental Manager ensures compliance with all health, safety, environmental regulatory requirements, and company health, safety, environmental and policies.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as a member of the plant leadership team developing the overall plant vision and culture.
• Ensure compliance with all health, safety, environmental regulatory requirements and company health, safety, environmental and policies.
• Lead the continuous improvement of the hazard identification and safety risk assessment schemes and Ingevity Safety Management System.
• Review employee safety programs to determine their adequacy and lead improvements where needed.
• Ensure that a process exists to promote the reporting of unsafe conditions, to provide resolution of the condition, and to provide prompt response to the employee(s) involved.
• Lead the development and improvement of employee safety participation opportunities.
• Perform routine safety contacts, attend and present safety topics at safety meetings.
• Lead a cross functional process safety improvement team tasked with developing and maintaining the plant process safety information and ensuring that process safety measures are adequate for world class process safety performance.
• Confer with medical professionals to assess health risks and to develop ways to manage health issues and concerns.
• Direct testing of air quality and noise levels to verify compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Ensure that industrial accidents, injuries, or occupational diseases are adequately investigated to determine causes and preventive measures.
• Compile, analyze, interpret, and develop response plans for statistical data related to chemical processes, environmental performance, occupational illnesses, accidents, and general safety performance trends.
• Lead and manage environmental compliance by acting as a liaison with government officials, developing or revising environmental permits, and leading projects to improve environmental performance.
• Interpret safety regulations for others interested in industrial safety, such as safety engineers, labor representatives, and safety inspectors.
• Ensure compliance with and stay informed of the impact of ISO/IATF 16949 on plant operations and support functions.
• Oversee the reporting of man hours and other safety data to the corporate group.
• Oversee the reporting of weekly and monthly updates for the safety team.
Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Safety, Environmental or equivalent
• 10+ years experience in chemicals, refinery, pulp and paper or other process industries.
• 7+ years supervisory experience

About the Company:
Elias Associates Inc