Sr. EH&S Engineer

Role Purpose

• Develops, administers, and implements environmental programs in accordance with governmental requirements.
• Monitors pollution prevention activities, compliance and auditing efforts.
• Conducts, studies, and prepares environmental impact reports for plant processes and permit changes.
• Reviews and analyzes environmental documents issued by various regulatory agencies.
• Determines impact on company operations and communicates data to appropriate engineering personnel for use in making engineering decisions.
• May communicate compliance strategies and requirements.
• Evaluates proposed regulations to determine financial, industrial, public and environmental impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Interacts with federal, state, and local regulators to resolve compliance issues; establishes permit requirements and assists in EPA, state, and local regulatory audits.
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and process to meet goals outlined.
• Provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance. Work is reviewed by management to measure meeting of objectives. Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
• Recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors, outside customers and functional peer groups at management levels.
• Provides leadership for the development and implementation of strategic objectives to manage and control occupational Hygiene and safety risks.
• Provides value added services and is accountable for achieving compliance to the Corning safety policy and for the implementation of the Corning safety strategy improvement initiatives.
• Analyzes processes and situations to create information and identify opportunities for positive change and improvement.
• Develops proactive prevention systems for anticipating and responding to events. Provides continued development on Occupational Hygiene safety issues.
• Provides expertise, advice, information and tools relating to effective Hygiene and safety management.
• Sets up processes to conduct suitable and sufficient risk assessments to reduce risk and identify process improvements.
• Facilitates implementation of a mature safety and health management system. Provides safety training.
• May perform, especially in staff or professional groups, ongoing operational tasks of organizational units.

Experiences/Education - Required

• 5 years of experience as EHS Engineer.
• Knowledge of Mexican safety and hygiene regulations. Understanding OSHA standards.
• Business understanding and involvement.
• Solid understanding and experience to drive safety or EHS internal and external audits.
• Experience managing and leading projects.
• Able to analyze data and crate action plans with solid results.
• Experience setting and managing department objectives.
• Able to interact at all levels.
• Analytic and negotiation skills.
• Bilingual ( English and Spanish)