EHS Manager - Minneapolis

Manage environment, health and safety programs established by the corporation that will meet or exceed EPA and OSHA legal requirements and corporate EHS standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain a working knowledge of the rules and regulations of various federal, state and local EHS regulatory agencies as they impact the manufacturing facility.
• Serve as liaison with regulatory agencies whenever appropriate, as directed by the EHS Director.
• In coordination with IP Corporation's EHS Director, develop and help maintain programs to ensure that the Plants are operating in compliance with all EHS regulations.
• Establish and maintain programs that will reduce the generation of all waste products from the manufacturing process, with an emphasis on the elimination of hazardous materials generation.
• Develop/maintain an in-depth familiarity with product chemistry.
• Manage and promote the ISO 14001 EMS Certifications held by the Minneapolis & Vadnais Heights Plants.
• Conduct periodic EHS facility audits to identify potential compliance irregularities and monitor program success.
• Present monthly EHS training topics and manage EHS concerns in a timely fashion.
• Maintain close communication with production planner, QC, and other internal related teams for engineering and related issues to meet timely production and quality goals.
• Monitor housekeeping (clean and orderly) in common areas, work areas, and storage locations to comply with regulatory bodies, such OSHA, Fire Dept., MPCA, County, etc.
• Communicate well with all plant personnel and corporate management.
• Capability to multi-task in a fast paced-cross functional environment. Punctuality and regularity of attendance are job requirements.

Other duties as needed.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, chemical engineering or technical degree with equivalent work experience.
• 8 years industrial/manufacturing setting required
• 5+ years' experience in a chemical plant environment preferred
• 3+ years' previous experience in areas of regulatory Environment, Safety and Health
• Strong mathematical skills.
• Experience in quality systems such as ISO 14001.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds

Interplastic Corporation is a specialty chemical company with headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota. The company focuses on the production and distribution of unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins, gel coats, colorants, and putties for the composites and cast polymer industries.

Interplastic has been manufacturing CoREZYN thermoset resins, gel coats, and colorants for the composites and cast polymer industries since 1959. They introduced CoREZYN epoxy-based vinyl esters in 1978 and today produce the most extensive line of vinyl ester resins in the marketplace. Interplastic acquired Silmar brand resins from an affiliate of British Petroleum in 1993, becoming one of the world's largest casting and solid surface resin producers, with facilities in California and Kentucky. Interplastic has full-service product development laboratories in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Fort Wright, Kentucky; and, Hawthorne, California

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