Associate Manager, SHE at SC Johnson (SCJ)

Responsibilities

• Leads SHE compliance assurance processes, such as compliance calendars and leader standard work, to enable compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations and company standards.
• Supports compliance with regulatory and company standards associated with the management of high-hazard chemical processes (e.g., process safety management) including metric generation, interpretation of data, and identification of opportunities to improve process safety risk reduction.
• Develops internal audit processes, including SHE-related GEMBA and behavior observations, that proactively identify potential SHE non-conformances.
• Coordinates completion of risk assessments such as Process Hazard Analyses (PHA) and periodic PHA revalidations for the site’s high-hazard chemical processes. 
• Collaborates with the site’s engineering and maintenance teams to ensure that inspections, testing, preventive maintenance activities associated with SHE-critical equipment and applicable high-hazard chemical processes are defined and appropriately documented.
• Provides subject matter expertise to support periodic external regulatory inspections associated with safety, health, environmental and/or fire protection matters.
• Champions the investigation of safety, health and environmental incidents and ensures that corrective and preventive actions that address root causes are effectively deployed across the site.
• Leads the development and maintenance of training processes to ensure that required safety, health and environmental training for the site is defined, addresses required content and is tracked to completion.
• Serves as a SHE representative for Management of Change (MOC) reviews to evaluate and control potential health and safety hazards and environmental impacts associated with business activity changes.
• Verifies the accuracy of data in the company’s SHE database (e.g., Entropy) and analyzes the data to identify loss trends that can contribute to injuries and illnesses, adverse environmental impacts and SHE process non-conformances.
• Champions the deployment of employee-driven safety and environmental teams and facilitates technical support for team activities that promote a safe, healthy and environmentally responsible workplace.
• Partners with operations, human resources and medical teams to effectively manage return-to-work programs for work-related injuries and illnesses.
• Provides input on site-level SHE goals and budgets.
• May provide supervision to site-level SHE analysts and technicians

Requirements

Experience you’ll bring:

• Bachelor's Degree from an academic university in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• 5+ years of progressively increasing SHE leadership responsibility in a global manufacturing organization
• Experience in high-hazard chemical process safety management (PSM) such as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration PSM standard or European Seveso Directive.
• Experience in driving day-to-day ownership of SHE processes to non-SHE program “champions”
• Project management experience to enable prioritization and management of multiple projects to completion
• Good knowledge and understanding and practice in LEAN / TPM processes would be a plus

Behaviors you’ll need:

• Ability to interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships to create win/win outcomes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with success in influencing others in cross-functional areas.