EHS Specialist

Division: BENTELER Steel/Tube 
Functional Area: Safety/Health/Environment 
Career Level: Professional 
Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time 
Weekly Working Hours: 40,00 
Required Languages: English 
Requisition ID: 40254 

At BENTELER, we make it possible. From promoting individual talents to international career prospects, or from generous opportunities for designing your career to personal development opportunities—at BENTELER, we always have answers to your questions about the future, based entirely on your personal needs. Diverse options that makes sure you can be anything and everything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

Core Responsibilities:

• Assist the EHS Manager in leading all Environment Health and Safety (EHS) processes in order to provide a safe workplace that protects and enhances the well-being of employees, guests, and outside contractors in order to comply with all governmental regulations.
• Assures compliance with state and federal regulations in addition to company policies and procedures.
• Consults, trains, directs, develops and implements safety programs and safety committees to promote overall health and safety and to meet OSHA regulations.
• Investigates work related accidents and injuries and establishes appropriate behavior modifications to prevent reoccurrence.
• Investigates potential safety hazards to eliminate risks of workplace injury and environmental hazards to mitigate the risk of pollution to the environment.
• Provides education, policies, and procedures to minimize and eliminate work related accidents.
• Works with EHS Manager and other personnel to ensure compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Environmental Quality.
• Establishes and coordinates an effective security process to protect all associates, property and visitors.
• Maintains all required OSHA, EPA, DEQ, and other compliance related reports and paperwork- such as OSHA logs, environmental permit reports, SDS (Safety Data Sheet) information.
• Creates, maintains, and monitors accident/incident/near miss/property damage statistics and reports to identify opportunity for improvement, risk areas/equipment and injury trends.                                                                        
• Actively assists with safety, environmental, fire prevention, and housekeeping audits/gemba walks.                                                                                                                                                    
• Evaluates new equipment and processes and identifies areas of improvement by means of risk assessment methodology.    
• Coordinates the training of subcontractors by means of training, enforcing rules, auditing, tracking compliance, etc.                                                                                 
• Assists in monitoring air and noise levels to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Works along with multiple departments to ensure all waste management paperwork and the subsequent reporting to government entities is handled properly and efficiently.
• Work with EHS Manager and co-workers to ensure the local and corporate prevention programs expands to every employee.

Job Requirements:

• BA/BS Occupational Safety or related field – or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5-10 year’s experience preferred with all risk control issues such as employee health, safety, fire protection and environmental protection, preferably in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
• Ability to analyze regulatory and non-regulatory standards to determine best practices.
• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies preferred,
• Experience with medical procedures, protocols, processes, etc.
• OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements Knowledge and Safety Metric Calculations
• ASP, CSP, CHMM, EMT, or equivalent professional credential preferred
• SAP knowledge Preferred/Microsoft Office Suite Required.

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The BENTELER Group always has the answer. That’s because in each of our divisions and at every one of our sites, you can benefit from the size and diversity of an international corporation with around 30,000 colleagues in nearly 30 countries.

The same is true in our BENTELER Steel/Tube division. Here, we develop and produce custom, precision pipes for customers from energy production, automotive engineering, and other industrial sectors. In this division, we enable the unerring application of our products, from the concept up to process integration and thus to integration into our customers’ value chains. Along with that, our diverse fields of application make sure you can be and become anything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!