Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Company: iNc EMPIRE, LLC
Location: Fontana
Posted on: February 5, 2025

Job Description:

Immediate opening in Fontana, CA for an EH&S Engineer.

The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.

This position does offer some great benefits:

Competitive salary
Company paid health and dental benefits
Paid vacation
401K Plan with company match
Opportunity for career stability and growth
Tuition reimbursement program

Overview of the Role:

The EHS Engineer partners with the Leadership Team and every level of employees to translate process opportunities into actions that drive a culture of safety throughout the departments. The primary purpose of the position is to lead the manufacturing organization to improve Safety practices, environmental requirements and employee's engagement level.

What will you get to do in this position?

Includes creation of strategic vision and tactical management and execution, examples include but are not limited to:

- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local safety laws, regulations, codes, and rules.

- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local environmental laws, regulations, codes, and rules.

- Familiar with Title V, RECLAIM, Rule 1469.1 and emission related AQMD rules and the corresponding reporting requirements.

- Familiar with stormwater management regulations, reporting, and compliance.

- Familiar with local wastewater regulations and reporting.

- Maintain knowledge of company safety rules and take an active role in enforcement, safety committee and safety training.

- Responsible for maintaining safety guidelines, procedures, and policies for assigned site.

- Able to effectively communicate and train safety and environmental topics.

- Perform weekly and monthly hazardous waste and stormwater inspections, and monthly data gathering.

- Responsible for accident/incident prevention, investigations and maintaining online reporting system.

- Manage and monitor regulatory environmental and safety issues and reporting.

- Maintain and file documentation needed for reporting to controlling agencies.

- Manage internal inspection programs, such as tracking corrective actions and audit follow ups.

- Responsible for Respiratory Program.

- Tracks employee license and certifications as related to safety to ensure compliance.

- Perform routine job safety analyses, building safety inspections and reviews.

- Work closely with site Operations Manager, and Samuel leadership team on all safety and environmental issues.

- This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management, as required. Staffing of positions to be determined by Company, as requirements warrant.

- As a Samuel employee, you are required to understand the ISO system and the elements that affect your job.

Education Requirements

- Bachelors of Science degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Business or related field w/ 10 years equivalent experience on the role.

Qualifications

- 10 years of safety related experience and/or advanced training/education in safety and environmental compliance in manufacturing.

- Able to work independently as well as within a team.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Knowledge of OSHA, DOT, EPA, AQMD, CUPA, DTSC, SWRCB and applicable local regulatory agencies.

- 30-hour OSHA card must be obtained within 6 months of employment and OSHA 511 within 18 months of job assignment.

- CPR / First Aid certified within 6 months of employment.

- Forklift train the trainer authorized.

- Proficient on Microsoft Office Products.

- Ability to train all levels of the organization.

- Be an active member of the company Safety Committee.

- Be able to maintain confidentiality when working with investigations and injuries.

- Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.

- Administration and Management - Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

- Disciplined Execution - Job requires holding the Operations team accountable through daily execution to the plan. When required, he/she will need to be able to dive into details to ensure operational success.

- Strong financial literacy.

- Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical.

- Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

- Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

- Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

- Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

- Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

- Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

- Customer Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

This company provides equal opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

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