Senior EHS Manager (Director of Environmental Health and Safety)

MDA Edge is seeking a Senior EHS Manager for their facilities in Booneville and Corinth, MS. This role involves leading EHS activities, mentoring staff, developing safety strategies, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Candidates should have experience in team leadership, a relevant degree, and knowledge of U.S. environmental regulations. The position requires strong skills in sustainability, risk management, and collaboration.
Our client is looking for Senior EHS Manager for their Mississippi facilities in Corinth and Booneville. This position will provide leadership, mentoring and direction to hourly, salaried and management personnel engaged in Environmental, Health, and/or Safety (EHS) activities related to a large campus.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Creates and drives the execution of the safety strategy for the Mississippi campus to achieve the vision.
• Provides guidance and EHS leadership to peers, direct reports and the Mississippi employees.
• Engages and develops team of hourly and management EHS professionals.
• Identifies common and more complex safety/health/environmental hazards inherent in the organization's operations and establishes guidelines for protection from those hazards.
• Ensures EHS training is completed to comply with regulatory requirements or in support of facility, division, or enterprise objectives.
• Audits safety/health/environmental programs for compliance with company standards, government regulations, and adequacy relative to local conditions.
• Monitors periodic performance reports for trends and conditions, alerts line management to problems and makes recommendations for improvement.
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:
• Demonstrated success in leading, developing engaging an inclusive team
• Degree or equivalent job-related experience (preferably in EHS or related field)
• Proven ability to set and implement a strategic vision
• Professional certification in a related field is desired
• Experience with U.S. environmental regulations
SKILLS NEEDED:
Sustainability: Knowledge of sustainability strategy; ability to integrate sustainability into the overall business strategy of the organization to build a sustainable business model.
Level: Basic Understanding
• Contributes to timely and accurate data collection and analysis at the corporate and site level.
• Describes the basic concepts and objectives of Sustainability.
• Supports research and general administrative requirements for our sustainability efforts.
• Understands various sustainability practices adopted by the organization.
Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Debates the pros and cons of various risk management models.
• Implements function-wide risk management processes and tools.
• Designs cross-functional risk management processes, tools, and audit mechanisms.
• Measures key benefits and drawbacks for specific risk management practices.
• Relates risk assessment models and analysis tools and processes to own business.
• Establishes key business-specific risk management benchmarks.
Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Demonstrates experience engendering collaborative processes that lead to problem solving and the achievement of business goals.
• Establishes shared goals to foster collaboration.
• Ensures that everyone can access the same data and provide input into how business is conducted.
• Redesigns physical areas to allow for collaboration and private time.
• Deemphasizes divides; focuses on collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.
• Implements methods for people to come together on the fly to make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level: Expert
• Analyzes and discusses alternatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Monitors developments in critical-thinking and decision-making models for potential use by organization.
• Coaches' others in decision-making models, processes, and practices.
• Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis.
• Shares experiences regarding optimal timing and circumstances for refraining from or making decisions.
• Differentiates between content and context of a decision.
Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level: Expert
• Coaches others in developing and maintaining cooperative and satisfying relationships.
• Intervenes with highly difficult people and situations.
• Creates initiatives that foster communication, directness and spirit of cooperation.
• Arbitrates difficult situations with high stakes.
• Sets the tone for interacting with other business functions or units.
• Encourages others to build partnerships with other functions or departments.
Overcoming Resistance to Change: Understanding and insight into the futility of refusing to accept the inevitable and ability to overcome resistance and adapt to a complex and changing environment.
Level: Expert
• Demonstrates experience overcoming resistance to anticipated and unanticipated changes in a wide variety of realms.
• Identifies and provides training for new values, skills, and behaviors required for the change.
• Develops strategies for overcoming resistance to change.
• Fosters an attitude of anticipation and graciousness toward change; welcomes change as an opportunity.
• Conceptualizes methods for dealing with the emotions and mental attitude toward change; recommends techniques for dealing with associated anxiety.
• Sets goals associated with change acceptance; acknowledges successful acceptance.
Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level: Expert
• Gains agreement on the problem-solving process, risk assessment, decision points, and criteria.
• Trains others in the process of eliciting alternatives and assessing their impact.
• Orchestrates the resolution of high-impact and cross-functional problems.
• Successfully organizes problem solvers and stakeholders for high-impact problems.
• Predicts and explains long-term trends and implications for alternatives
• Monitors industry for best practices and new techniques in problem-solving.
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Policy Compliance: Knowledge of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policies; ability to implement EHS policies to ensure that provided products and services are safe for people and the environment and in compliance with legal requirements and standards.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Determines criteria for assessing vendors which may have potential environmental impact.
• Formulates health and safety plans and policies, e.g. a fire safety plan and road safety policy.
• Trains employees on HSE policy compliance and measures understanding.
• Designs an incident report form and reporting procedures for EHS management.
• Collaborates across multiple departments to facilitate EHS management.
• Controls pollution and minimizes waste of materials, energy and water within the organization.