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Job Summary
- Company
- Aleris International, Inc.
- Location
- Coldwater, MI 49036
- Industries
- Metals and Minerals
- Job Type
- Full Time
- Employee
- Years of Experience
- 5+ to 7 Years
- Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Career Level
- Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)
HSE Manager
About the Job
Aleris is a privately-held, global leader in aluminum rolled products and extrusions, aluminum recycling and specification alloy production. Headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio, the company operates more than 40 production facilities in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Our Recycling & Specification Alloys Americas (RSAA) division is seeking to add a talented Health, Safety & Environmental Manager to its team located at our Coldwater, Michigan facility. The Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Manager will lead plant health and safety and environmental protection performance and activities. The HSE Manager is responsible for developing and implementing programs that focus on system, process, and cultural changes that drive company performance to higher levels and ensure compliance to internal and external requirements.
Job Title: HSE Manager
Business/Functional Area: Recycling & Specification Alloys Americas (RSAA)
Location: Coldwater, MI
Relocation Available: Yes
Date Opened: 2/2/2012
Responsibilities Include:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Work Environment/Physical Demands:
Our Recycling & Specification Alloys Americas (RSAA) division is seeking to add a talented Health, Safety & Environmental Manager to its team located at our Coldwater, Michigan facility. The Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Manager will lead plant health and safety and environmental protection performance and activities. The HSE Manager is responsible for developing and implementing programs that focus on system, process, and cultural changes that drive company performance to higher levels and ensure compliance to internal and external requirements.
Job Title: HSE Manager
Business/Functional Area: Recycling & Specification Alloys Americas (RSAA)
Location: Coldwater, MI
Relocation Available: Yes
Date Opened: 2/2/2012
Responsibilities Include:
- Health and Safety
- Ensure adherence of all employees, visitors and contractors to the HSE standards, policies and procedures.
- Work with plant, regional and corporate to implement proactive solutions to avoid workplace injury and solve HSE problems as they arise.
- Improve safety performance by continuously increasing a level of awareness and improving safety systems to reduce, if not eliminate, accidents and injuries. Lead and maintain plant safety AOS Information Center. Complete inspections and audits to detect and eliminate unsafe practices and conditions.
- Working with the plant manager to establish and maintain an active Facility Safety Committee. Lead monthly plant safety meetings, safety walk-arounds, and assist supervisors with monthly crew safety meetings.
- Ensure adequate mechanical and physical safeguards to equipment. Regularly inspect and manage required calibration of monitoring and testing equipment.
- Implement education and training programs for good health and safety practices.
- Follow investigation practices and procedures for all accidents and near accidents to determine the causes and the corrective actions necessary to prevent recurrences.
- Maintain accurate recordkeeping data as required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
- Implement effective emergency response action programs.
- Collect and analyze injury data to identify trends and recommend improvements.
- Maintain data, records and documents in a confidential manner.
- Quote, purchase, and allocate necessary items to ensure a safe working environment.
- Manage contracts related to safety and environmental systems and equipment.
- Coordinate annual hearing testing, medical evaluations, first aid and CPR training, fit testing and other required testing.
- Maintain the Plant MSDS records.
- Environmental
- Ensure environmental performance and compliance by maintaining knowledge of Safety and Environmental regulations and compliance reporting.
- Working collaboratively with corporate, regional and plant staff, recommend, develop and implement policies, procedures and systems that meet/surpass the standards set by relevant legislation and regulation. These include:
- Compliance with Secondary Aluminum MACT Standard as it applies to the facility.
- Development and implementation of training programs that support good environmental practices and ensure compliance with State and Federal agency regulations (e.g., SPCC, SWPPP, Tier II, TRI).
- Conducting required internal environmental sampling and completing timely inspections and audits to detect and eliminate unsound environmental practices and conditions and developing and implementing corrective and preventive actions to address non-conformities.
- Collecting and maintaining accurate records as required by federal, state and local regulatory authorities. Reporting of noncompliant issues in a timely manner to facility and corporate management.
- Maintain knowledge of current and proposed federal, state, and local environmental reports to help prepare, revise and implement required permits, licenses, orders and decrees.
- Help gather and evaluate analytical data and other environmental information to assess site compliance. Maintain and store environmental data, records and documents in a confidential manner. Provide monthly summary analysis.
- Communicate with and maintain professional relationships with environmental agency personnel regarding construction and operating permit issues. Work with regional and corporate HSE team to negotiate compliance issues and enforcement actions as well as provide required reports.
- Provide technical expertise and leadership for on-site environmental emergency response situations or for incidents that occur during the off-site shipment of material.
- Other Responsibilities
- Work with the regional HSE manager in the selection of external consultants and manage work and costs.
- This position has a dual reporting relationship to the plant manager and the regional HSE manager. As such, individual must be able to manage communications effectively with both individuals and work with the regional HSE manager to implement corporate guidelines and utilize best practice transfer.
- Support the AOS culture by identifying and reporting on key HSE metrics that will drive change within the plant.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree in engineering or other technical or scientific discipline. CSP preferred.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in industrial safety, health or environmental role with demonstrated understanding of HSE principles and regulations.
- Strong planning skills in order to develop and then implement an aggressive, forward-thinking, and cohesive plan to improve facility safety performance and maintain environmental compliance.
- Strong persuasion and motivation skills as well as, the ability to work across all disciplines and levels.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with water, waste, and air regulation.
- Supervisory or leadership experience.
- Understanding of the continuous improvement processes such as Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma, and CIP.
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes. Molten metal industry preferred.
Work Environment/Physical Demands:
- Must be able to work in both an office and manufacturing environment.
- Office environment with controlled temperature. Noise level ranges from quiet to moderate.
- Manufacturing environment exposes employee to wet and/or humid conditions and fumes or airborne particles and is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; and extreme heat.
- The noise level in the manufacturing work environment is usually moderate, occasionally loud.
- Must be able to travel through facility and outside grounds to conduct safety observations and perform environmental testing.
- Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, and hear, and lift up to 5 pounds. Frequently required to lift up to 15 pounds; and occasionally required to lift up to 25 pounds.
- The vision requirements include: close vision; distance vision; and ability to adjust focus.
