Senior Manager of EHS

Role: Senior Manager of EHS
Location: Corinth, MS
Type: FTE/Permanent

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.

Required Skills:

• 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.