Description
Where you will work Our Cypress Bend team is a close-knit group of approximately 275 skilled employees who take pride in what we do. Together, we make paperboard used in products across the United States, including food packaging, plates, cups and more. Located in the historic Mississippi River Delta, this facility offers a slower pace with plenty of outdoor activities like fishing, hiking, and biking. Many employees commute from nearby towns such as McGehee, Monticello, Dumas, Dermott and Lake Village, which are known for affordable living, strong local pride and family-friendly schools. The Cypress Bend team also supports local cultural and the arts, with past contributions to the WWII Japanese Internment Museum and SEArk Concert Association. What you will do The Health and Safety Manager provide health and safety leadership through compliance with federal, state, and local environmental health and safety regulations.
Leadership
- Lead the development and implementation of an annual health and safety operating plan.
- Demonstrate professional maturity and ability to act as a change leader by influencing all levels of the organization to drive continuous improvement in safety performance
- Proactively engage all site employees to establish an employee ownership culture
- Develop, implement, execute, and manage strategies to prevent workplace injuries.
- Exercise a leadership, coordination, and communication role with the location leadership team to drive continuous EHS improvement across the location
Health & Safety Compliance
- Develops and maintains site HS records and documentation to demonstrate regulatory compliance.
- Conduct HS activities such as training/auditing/assessing to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory agency and internal company requirements.
- Perform risk assessments and assist in the implementation of effective physical and/ or behavioral control measures. Recognize and verify the effectiveness of in-place control measures.
- Conduct incident investigations to obtain the root cause and ensure corrective actions are implemented to prevent reoccurrence.
- Manages the worksite industrial hygiene and hearing conservation process.
- Work with the site occupational health nurse to manage the overall worker's compensation and return to work program.
- Interface with regulatory bodies (OSHA, State, Local).
Health & Safety Resources
- Provide overall site health and safety leadership, guidance, and technical support.
- Build capability of site resources to support implementation of health and safety programming.
- Review and interpret OSHA requirements
- Collaborate with plant team to ensure safe, practical solutions are achieved for identified health and safety risks.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify health and safety opportunities with equipment operation and conditions while demonstrating knowledge of appropriate corrective action for unsafe conditions or equipment use.
Key Competencies & Attributes
- Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others' knowledge and skills.
- Identifies barriers that impact customer service and retention; communicates concerns and recommendations to others.
- Uses understanding of customer needs and the organization's customer service practices to set priorities, make decisions, and take actions that create customer satisfaction and prevent service issues from occurring.
- Creates relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes.
- Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree in Health, Safety/Environmental or a related field.
- Minimum of five years' experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
- Strong preference in experience in paper, pulp/paper mills; experience in high-speed industrial environments may be considered.
- Certified Safety Professional preferred.
- Supervisory experience preferred.
- Thorough knowledge of local, state and federal EHS regulations.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
- Must be results oriented and capable of driving the EHS process at a complex site.
- Must be able to work collaboratively in a union environment.
- Ability to build an effect team, develop and maintain positive working relationship and articulate objectives.
- Ability to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality and sensitive information.
- Operating knowledge of industrial hygiene equipment.
- Must be able to read and interpret rules and regulations.
- Must be physically capable of standing, walking and climbing stairs up to 8-10 hours per day.
- Must be able to work in a hot, dusty, humid, noisy mill environment around high-speed equipment.
- Must be able to adjust work hours to support the safety and environmental needs of a 24/7 facility.
- Some travel required.
Total Rewards Details We prioritize an exceptional workplace experience, offering a comprehensive total reward package. This position is eligible for our Incentive Plan. Compensation ranges are estimates based on market data. Actual offers account for internal equity and candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, education, experience, and geographic location. Benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, generally begin after 30 days. Our paid time off will include vacation days, personal days, and company holidays. For more on our compensation philosophy, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Team at Talent.Acquisition@clearwaterpaper.com. Clearwater Paper will not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require Clearwater Paper's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States. #ClearwaterPaper #Cypress Bend This role will be open for a minimum of 2 weeks or at the point a successful candidate is selected.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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