Environmental Manager jobs in Sumter, SC

What you’ll do:

• Create and deploy a strategy to achieve the plant’s EHS and Sustainability goals. Establish and share ownership and accountability to achieve goals with the EHS and site Leadership Team.
• Facilitate evaluation and implementation of fiscally and socially responsible methods and processes of reducing operational environmental footprint by managing natural resources and waste.
• Build organization capability by providing EHS mentorship, training, and development of EHS team, MESH Champions and Sumter Extended Leadership Team to ensure compliance with MESH and Regulatory requirements.
• Support and participate on Continuous Improvement Activities such as: Rapid Improvement Events, Kaizens, Ideas Programs, Cost Out to incorporate EHS initiatives to drive improvements in results year over year.
• Continuously identify, assess, and reduce Environmental Health & Safety risks through the development and deployment of management systems for incident investigation, corrective/preventive action, management of change.
• Interface with governmental authorities on matters of mutual concern including maintenance of environmental permits, submission of required reports, and maintenance of data.
• Comply with Eaton’s ethics policy and keep management informed of any issues associated with regulatory compliance, safety incidents and security concerns.
• Develop Environmental Health & Safety training plan and associated content. Ensure employee compliance with training requirements and maintenance of training documentation.
• Drive broad levels employee engagement in MESH activities to achieve a zero-incident safety culture through leadership, programs, communication, engagement, and employee committees.
• Initiate opportunities to improve environmental conditions in the community as well as foster employee wellness and off-the-job safety.
• Integrate and support Corporate Environmental Health & Safety initiatives

Qualifications:

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Five (5) years EHS and/or related manufacturing experience
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship now and within the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years managing people in a manufacturing environment.
• Master’s degree in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, environmental discipline or equivalent
• Environmental Health and Safety certification (i.e. CSP, CIH, CHMM)
• Manufacturing experience at a facility with 500 employees
• Knowledge and experience of Lean Tools, 6 Sigma and Technical Statistics

Additional Information:

• Focus efforts on attaining assigned goals and objectives, which include meeting needs and expectations of internal and external customers.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities, analyze complex problems and implement solutions.
• This position requires a high level of responsiveness and proactive problem solving to reinforce enterprise-wide goal of providing strong safety and environmental performance
• Team oriented and self-starter with strong multi-tasking and time management skills.
• Provide technical instructions and general instructions to all levels of the organizations to adhere to MESH expectations and drive facility projects and contracts impacting product operations.
• Focus on cost containment and high levels of trust managing EHS costs and maintaining financial integrity.
• Available to alleviate any safety related problem or concern that an employee may feel needs attention.
• Required to act as the contact person dealing with outside agencies concerning any facility safety, health, and environmental issues.

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as ability to influence. Work with individuals and groups to effectively participate within team environment
• Expected to work with some degree of independence and make decisions that affect the workgroup.
• Analytical problem solving skills; Ability to motivate and drive problem solving techniques for root cause identification and development of permanent corrective action
• Demonstrated competency in applicable computer programs to support data and reporting (Microsoft Office, Industry 4.0 etc)
• Experience in developing and delivering training in environmental, health and safety
• Experience with regulatory compliance concerning environmental, health, safety or security matters
• Experienced dealing with local, state, and federal agencies in relation to EHS
• Experience driving/leading culture change in an EHS environment
• Soft Skills: Thinks and Acts Strategically, Gets Results Through Self and Others, Builds Organizational Capability), Demonstrates Eaton’s Leadership Style

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