Supervisor, Environmental, Health & Safety, Stewardship Leader

Overview

The Safety and Health Supervisor provides technical leadership and direction for the occupational health, industrial hygiene and people safety management systems and programs the Celanese Polymer Products, LLC Cooper River site.  This position provides influential leadership and technical consulting on people safety, industrial hygiene, and process safety management elements of fire protection and emergency preparedness and response.  This role also has supervisory responsibility of other team members identified as part of the Safety and Health organization.  This role serves as a member of the Site Leadership Team and partners closely with corporate Stewardship team members including People Safety, Health Services, and Emergency Services as well as peer Stewardship leaders at other Celanese sites. The Safety and Health Supervisor ensures that programs meet or exceed corporate governance and regulatory requirements. 

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the organization to drive a Zero Harm culture.
• Ensure management systems are established, maintained, and continuously improved to meet or exceed corporate and regulatory requirements for people safety, industrial hygiene, occupational health, fire protection and emergency preparedness and response. 
• Develop a strong knowledge of and working experience with corporate Standard Work Processes (SWPs) and US occupational health, safety, and process safety management regulations as well as industrial hygiene is required.
• Provide direct support, guidance and development of members of the 24/7 Stewardship Facilitators which is a sub-team within the 24/7 Move to the Core team. 
• Maintain an active, positive field presence and assesses work activities routinely to maintain awareness of plant needs and understanding of personnel behaviors using a Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) approach.
• Demonstrate courageous leadership by coaching, asking questions, and challenging when needed.
• Challenge status quo and past norms to drive the operation to the highest level of Stewardship performance.
• Ensure the operation team is fully prepared for emergency response situations, including where technical resources might be needed to analyze process conditions and guide the response.
• Ensure appropriate technical review of work plans (maintenance or improvement projects) such that appropriate Stewardship SWPs, including those that are life-critical, are applied appropriately for the job.
• Facilitate and participate in investigation of Stewardship-related unplanned events to determine cause and corrective action.  Document incident in incident management system and track corrective actions to completion.
• Analyze and evaluate Stewardship performance to identify and implement opportunities for improvement and integrated into a 3-year strategic Stewardship improvement plan. 
• Partners with leadership to ensure capital is allocated appropriately to engineer out industrial hygiene hazards, improve environmental compliance, and reduce personal/process safety hazards and risks.
• In the absence of engineering controls, implement appropriate administrative controls and process controls for safe and reliable operation.
• Organize and lead special Stewardship emphasis events such as Calls to Action, KeepSAFE week, etc.
• Internally and externally network, share and leverage with other Celanese Stewardship professionals, trade and professional associations as well as those at other sites.
• Conduct 1st party Stewardship Audits and work with the leadership team to analyze results to drive continual improvement.
• Coordinate and participate in 2nd and 3rd party Stewardship audits.  
• Support injury and illness recordkeeping and case management process; maintain relevant logs and documentation.
• Provide supervisory guidance and development to aligned Stewardship team members to ensure competencies are continuously developed.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in the field of Occupational Health and Safety. 
• A minimum of 10 years of chemical manufacturing-related experience is required for this position.
• Strong leadership, people management and development skills in an industrial environment.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks and deadlines as well as manage change and work independently.
• Experience in and working knowledge of U.S. occupational health, safety and environmental regulations.
• Knowledge and experience in applying Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles including leading and participating in Operational Learnings and Learning Teams.
• Strong people safety and industrial hygiene competency and knowledge with demonstrated operational expertise and ability to analyze technical and regulatory information and provide prudent recommendations to all levels at the site.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize computer software (systems used are Microsoft Office, Cority, etc.)
• Networking, influence, and conflict resolution skills with strong focus on deliverables with excellent oral and written skills along with the ability to apply these in the regulatory, advocacy and public affairs culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial Hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (or equivalent certification recognized by the International Occupational Hygiene Association National Accreditation Recognition Committee) is desired but not required.