Position: EHS Specialist

Duration: Direct Hire

Location: Garland Texas - 5 days onsite

Salary: 115K - $120K/yr + full time benefits/PTO

Hours: 6am-4pm M-F onsite some Saturday flexibility

Must haves

• Bachelor’s degree; OR High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years' equivalent working experience
• 3 years’ relevant experience in EHS space
• Background from a manufacturing/ production
• Chemical environment experience

Plusses:

• 6 years’ experience working in a production or manufacturing environment in an Environmental, Health and Safety role, highly preferred
• Certified Safety Professional designation, preferred
• Experience and/or familiarity with regulations governing the storage, movement, and disposal of dangerous goods (49 CFR, RCRA, PHMSA, CFR, IMDG, and IATA)
• Experience in the design and implementation of risk assessment strategies, tools, and systems

Responsibilities

• Applies risk management and engineering principles to drive EHS risk reduction efforts and compliance activities, including providing technical support, completing comprehensive risk assessments, and developing and deploying EHS programs
• Ensures full and consistent compliance to hazardous and dangerous goods handling, storage, and transportation regulation
• Leading or participating in serious EHS incident investigations and ensuring appropriate communication and tracking items to closure
• Participating on EHS audits, audit program management or self-assessment standard development
• Coaching and mentoring site personnel leading or supporting operations by promote engineering control concepts and design, policy and program development, and related activities

Day to day

Your role will be critical to the supply chain success as you help mitigate risk and identify key Safety and Regulatory requirements in transportation and distribution. You will assist in the development and deployment of programs to ensure employee personal safety and process safety.

The person hired for this position will be a highly motivated, detail orientated and independent individual responsible for providing leadership and technical expertise with a player coach mentality for assessing and managing risks across the supply chain’s distribution network. Developing, implementing and refining risk assessment and management programs, methods and strategies. Performing audits, analyzing data, and systems. Proactively supporting development of professional competency for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) professionals.