Environmental, Health, Safety & Training Manager

ISP Technologies Inc.

Environmental, Health, Safety & Training Manager

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland, Inc. has an exciting opportunity for an Environmental, Health, Safety & Training Manager to join our Ashland, ISP Technologies, Inc. business at our Texas City, Texas, manufacturing plant. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the manufacturing function. This position will report to the site manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Accountable for the overall safety, health, regulatory, and environmental performance of the plant.
• Possesses a thorough knowledge of and ability to effectively utilize methods and tools to conduct risk assessments and process hazard analysis.
• Demonstrates skill in project management tools and methods to successfully manage and implement several projects and initiatives simultaneously.
• Demonstrates knowledge and a thorough understanding of EHS regulatory structure and requirements, EHS management systems, and company requirements.
• Ability to lead, implement, and measure plant-specific, company, and/or regulatory EHS program elements.
• Conducts root cause analyses, identifies corrective actions, and then utilizes incident management systems to improve site and employee safety.
• Possesses thorough knowledge of adult learning methods, including the ability to identify, develop, and facilitate EHS-related training materials and topics.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate verbal and written messages appropriate to the audience. Able to deliver information in a formalized and/or group setting. Able to translate complicated and/or technical information into a simplified format that all levels of the organization can easily understand.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of current software systems, i.e. SAP, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). Must possess skills to utilize database software programs and electronic project management tools.
• Ability to persuade or convince others not within the normal reporting relationship to support an idea, agenda, direction, or initiative by establishing credibility, using data, and/or exercising other appropriate methods.
• Build and sustain working relationships with people of diverse cultural identities, styles, and functional responsibilities at all levels, including hourly workers.
• Able to define objectives and processes, then integrate into the organization, understand how to separate and combine tasks into an efficient workflow, know what to measure and how to measure it, can see opportunities for synergy and integration, and can simplify complex processes.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and organize work effectively to produce measurable results. Defines objectives and integrates into the organization quickly and smoothly, along with the ability to perform both long- and short-term planning.
• Provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive, corrective feedback. Must be transparent with everyone, acknowledge where people stand, address people's problems with any person or situation quickly and directly, and not be afraid to take adverse action when necessary.
• Build and develop an effective team by modeling a team-oriented approach that seeks to build better solutions by leveraging the diversity of thought, experience, and capability in team composition and in resulting decisions. Blending people into teams when needed, building strong morale and spirit within one's own team, fostering open dialogue, defining success in terms of the whole team, and fostering a cohesive team mentality.
• Make good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment, sought out by others for advice and solutions, capable of making and enacting difficult decisions.
• Actively contributes to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals, and focusing on performance and safety.
• Improve organizational capacity and capabilities by building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent, and using positive communication and influence with others.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor of Science or comparable degree in Industrial Safety, Environmental Science, or other related technical degree (i.e., Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc.).
• Minimum seven years of experience in industrial safety, environmental, and regulatory in a manufacturing or distribution setting, of which two years must be in the oil or chemical industry.
• Capable of evacuating the manufacturing process areas in a timely manner should an emergency arise.
• Must be able to wear and properly utilize appropriate personal protective equipment if required to work or visit within the manufacturing process area. Includes hard hat, safety glasses, respirators, earplugs, steel-toed shoes, or other equipment as needed.
• Ability to walk the entire manufacturing site, climb stairs, bend, stoop, kneel, or extend reach, depending on the task required. Work is performed in an office/plant environment, with possible trips to operating areas to address issues, deliver urgent communications, or conduct safety/environmental compliance audits.
• Training or maintaining certifications may require travel within Texas and around the United States of America.
• Must be authorized to work in the US.

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Safety certifications required by current regional or country regulations.
• Prior emergency response team leadership experience.
• Experience working with regulatory agencies, including license or permit applications.
• Production and/or maintenance supervisory experience preferred.

Perks of working at Ashland:

• Team recognition, rewards, and monetary incentives based on performance.
• Comprehensive Benefit package, Medical, Dental, and Vision starting on Day 1 for you AND your family.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Position is based at the Texas City manufacturing plant.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.