Responsibilities:

• Conduct safety and environmental audits and report findings to the appropriate level of management to create corrective action plans to resolve
• Create, verify and maintain Job Safety Assessments (JSA’s)
• Facilitate change to behavior-based safety by working with management, supervisors and line leaders. Use all available means (staff meetings, safety committees) to push safety concerns/issues to resolution
• Facilitate the identification of environmental aspects and impacts and the determination of those that are significant in order to minimize the impact on the environment
• Coordinate employee safety and environmental based training including orientation, pallet jack, forklift, overhead crane as well as contract with outside services to provide hearing conservation, firefighting and first aid training. Provide line leader training to ensure understanding of safety and environmental aspects of their job
• Serve as the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Management Representative, reporting to top management the performance of the System and recommending improvements
• Establish policies, requirements, procedures and promote communication to improve safety and environmental practices
• Manage ISO 14001 certification (keeping documents updated and following documents, annual required training SPCC, RCRA, Haz-Waste, etc.), participate in weeklong ISO audit, update monthly environmental objectives

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in a safety related field or a minimum of five years’ experience actively running a safety program in a manufacturing environment, a Masters degree is a plus
• Minimum of RSPP duty qualified
• Previous experience with ISO 45001 is a plus
• Able to train and direct employees in different operations
• Experience with Microsoft Office, SAP, Excel, Power Point
• Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers
• Ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks simultaneously to completion
• Strong verbal presentation and written communication skills
• Ability to read, write, and speak in both Italian and English