Environmental, Health & Safety Business Partner

Commonwealth Rolled Products is a leading manufacturer of Aluminum rolled products for the Automotive, Commercial, and Industrial markets. The Company operates its production facility in Lewisport, KY with the support of an Automotive Innovation Center for R&D, Sales and Field Service in Madison Heights (DET), and Inside Sales in the Cleveland, OH area.

We are seeking an EHS Business Partner at our facility located in Lewisport, KY. This position provides direct staff support; articulates regulatory impact on operations to management; investigates, recognizes and recommends corrective actions on EHS compliance issues and continuous improvement actions. This position will have a heavy emphasis on environmental compliance.

Responsibilities Include:

• Actively participate in maintaining a zero-incident safety culture.
• Live and champion the Commonwealth Rolled Products core values: Safety, Integrity, Customer Focus, Ownership, Excellence, and Teamwork.
• Analyze work environments and recommend design of programs to control, eliminate and/or prevent injuries, and releases to the environment.
• Serve on EHS Committees, increasing awareness, improving HSE knowledge to our employees, and identifying and resolving safety hazards as well as potential environmental impacts.
• Investigate and complete the process for closing out open actions to mitigate reoccurrence of safety and health related incidents. Prepare and submit lessons learned to facility EHS Director and leadership team.
• Act as a strategic partner and work closely with the area Business leaders to improve EHS compliance.
• Collect and maintain accurate records as required by federal, state, and local regulatory authorities. Report any noncompliance or malfunction issues in a timely manner to facility management. Participate in any federal, state, and local Safety-related inspections.
• Work collaboratively with plant operational staff.
• Recommend, develop, and implement HSE policies, procedures and systems that meet/surpass the standards set by relevant legislation and regulation.
• Develop and present training programs that support good EHS practices and ensure compliance with State and Federal agency regulations.
• Attend the training programs necessary to fulfill the role responsibilities.
• Facilitate group EHS meetings and loss prevention programs.
• Act as a strategic partner and work closely with the Department Business Leaders to improve the areas EHS compliance.
• Audit CRP Health and Safety Policies and Procedures, conduct compliance audits to the policies and procedures.
• Conduct facility OSHA Compliance audits.
• Provide or become the technical expert in a specific EHS subject matter, LOTO, Confined Space, etc..
• Supports emergency response action programs.
• Schedules and coordinates quarterly sling inspections and safety equipment recertifications.
• Assesses equipment and processes for adequate mechanical and physical safeguards, recommends improvements where needed.
• Ensures the health and safety of all employees, visitors, and contractors through the adherence to H&S standards, policies, and procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a B.S. degree in one of the following: environmental engineering (strongly preferred), chemical engineering, occupational safety and health or similar educational background. In exceptional circumstances a relevant A.S. degree may be considered in combination with the required relevant experience.
• 3-5 years environmental experience in heavy industry.
• Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Must have the ability to contribute and participate in a team environment.
• Ability to accomplish assigned tasks, provide feedback, construct plans, and demonstrates confidence in team leader and member roles.
• Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the work of the role.
• The ability to recognize and analyze critical issues, identify, and assign resources and follow-up to task completion.
• Willingness to be on-call after regular work hours if issues arise.
• Ability to influence others through coaching and behavior modeling by being clear, open, fair, honest, involving others in decisions that affect them, supplying resources as needed, and listening effectively.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years environmental experience.
• 3+ years occupational safety and health experience.
• Experience working in a Union environment.

EEO Statement

Commonwealth Rolled Products is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age (forty and over), national origin, disability (as defined by applicable law), veteran's status, genetic information, marital status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Our HR team will reach out to applicants who meet the qualifications and most closely align with requirements of the position.