EHS Specialist
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Job Purpose and Impact
The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist, will apply technical knowledge of process safety to deploy corporate standards to handle hazardous processes. In this role, you will lead safety teams and guide the development of strategies, implement and sustain corporate process safety risk management standards and ensure prevention of serious process safety events.
Key Accountabilities
- Assess environmental health and safety risks, opportunities and impacts, standards and regulations and advise on potential impacts to internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead the implementation of programs and processes in alignment with the environmental health and safety regulatory of government, International Standard Organization (ISO) management system and corporate guidelines.
- Implement environmental health and safety activities, including emergency response plan, incident/accident management, training implementation and performance management.
- Provide operational leadership to audit, inspection and risk assessment processes.
- Review and analyze audit results to confirm compliance with corporate, business and regulatory standards..
- Lead the fire fighting system management for assigned areas.
- Identify and assess high risk processes, conduct process hazard analysis and take appropriate action plan to ensure compliance standards are met.
- Other duties as assigned
- Responsible for personnel decisions related to hiring, performance and disciplinary actions for your direct reports. You will also spend time completing the same tasks as employees on your team.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Confirmed hazard and risk management skill.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Minimum requirement of 1 year relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- One year of supervisory experience
- 8 years experience of environmental health and safety management system.
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