Environmental Health and Safety Manager (Power Electronics Systems) - MA26042

Job # MA26042

Job Title Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Office Location Katy, TX

Business Function /Department Power Electronics Systems/EHS

Sales Territory, if applicable

General Role Description

Manage the Power Electronics Systems (PES) Business Unit (BU) EHS program to ensure regulatory compliance, safe operational performance, and risk exposure reduction

Role Accountabilities

-  Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees to ensure regulatory compliance, operational safety, and risk exposure reduction

-  Monitor applicable EHS regulations and recommend updates to Company policies, plans, and procedures to immediate manager; implement and manage as appropriate

-  Manage the BU's ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems, ensuring compliance audit readiness, and continuous improvement

-  Review and recommend EHS requirements for contracts, supplier agreements, and technical service agreements to mitigate third-party risk and ensure compliance

-  Recommend updates to BU emergency action plans based on regulatory changes and best practices

-  Ensure BU compliance with emergency actions plans

-  Lead EHS audits per plan to verify compliance with Company policies, ISO requirements and regulatory standards; to identify areas of risk, and to implement, verify, and sustain corrective actions

-  Recommend effective and compliant processes for documenting, investigating, and reporting unsafe or improper conduct that could endanger safety of persons affected by company operations, and ensure consistent application

-  Recommend employee and contractor EHS training compliant with applicable Company policies, applicable regulatory standards, and best practices, and conduct as needed

-  Manage EHS training certification, qualification, and expiration tracking to sustain required credentials; identify and escalate compliance gaps to immediate manager

-  Ensure compliance with the Company's site drug/alcohol (DOT, PHMSA and non-DOT) and background screening programs

-  Provide immediate manager and BU management with timely updates on current and emerging EHS issues

General Employee Accountabilities

-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-   Give manager best advice

-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-   Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Manager Accountabilities

-   Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

-   Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

-   Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

-   Own the output of the team

-   Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

-   Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

-    Two-way managerial team working

-    Fair and just treatment of direct reports

-    Context setting

-    Planning

-    Task assignment

-    Ongoing performance management

-    Coaching

-    Selection and orientation

-    De-selection and dismissal

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, engineering, industrial hygiene, or related field or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 5 years' experience in an EHS role in an industrial environment
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to interpret and comply with OSHA, EPA, TCEQ, NFPA, NEC, and other applicable federal, state and local EHS regulations
• Demonstrated experience in an EHS role in an ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 industrial environment
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Availability to travel, domestically and internationally, up to 10%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-   Relevant professional certification such as Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH)

-   Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams

-   Demonstrated experience with a foreign owned business, preferably Japanese

-   5 years' experience leading a team to achieve business goals in a manufacturing and warehouse environment

-   Sufficient proficiency in Spanish and/or Vietnamese to read, write, and converse effectively about routine professional, operational, and EHS-related matters in a manufacturing environment

-   Demonstrated experience working with a field service organization

-   Demonstrated experience working with international clients

-   Demonstrated ability to interpret and comply with international environmental health and safety regulations in countries where the Company operates

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.