QHSE Specialist - Hudson, United States - GEA Group

Description

Responsibilities / Tasks

We are looking for a QHSE Specialist who will be responsible for overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at a GEA North America site.

This role requires a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, and promoting a culture of safety excellence throughout the organization.

This person should be missionally driven and thrive in the following areas:

• Understand health, safety, and environmental requirements at a local, state, and federal level.
• Applies risk management and engineering principles to drive risk reduction efforts and compliance activities This includes providing technical support, completing/facilitating comprehensive risk assessments, and leading or participating in HSE incident investigations.
• Participation in HSE audits, audit program management and tracking/closure of audit action items.
• Build and maintain a collaborative working relationship with leadership. This includes coaching and mentoring site personnel by promote engineering control concepts and design, policy and program development, and related activities.
• Ability to track and communicate HSE metrics such as safety key performance indicators, results of audits, and compliance costs.
• Connect with the hearts and minds of people in fostering a proactive safety culture driven by engagement programs, training, and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the organization locally and globally.
• Manage Worker's Compensation programs in line with company policy.

Your Profile / Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in occupational health and safety, Environmental Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in health and safety management, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Certification in relevant HSE disciplines (e.g., CSP, GSP, CIH, CHMM) preferred.
• Proficiency in incident investigation techniques, including root cause analysis methodologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time to GEA North America sites.
• Experience with ISO 45001:2018
• Experience managing/leading and implementing occupational safety & health programs (injury reduction, trending, strategic planning, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience working on cross-functional teams as well as leading HSE related projects

Other Skills:

• Use of MS Office programs including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to sit for up to 8 hours per day and operate a computer keyboard with sufficient hand, arm, and finger dexterity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-developed problem solving, decision making and negotiation skills.
• Assertive self-starter.
• Detail oriented.
• Strong organization skills.

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