HSES Coordinator - Safety

SUMMARY: The Health, Safety, Environmental, & Security (HSES) Coordinator will have responsibility for ensuring that our employees, contractors, and visitors enjoy high levels of safety, health and environmental protection while maintaining regulatory and corporate compliance.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

Successful candidate will perform a wide range of HSES related assignments, with guidance and assistance from the HSES Manager, including but not limited to the descriptions below:

SAFETY and PROCESS SAFETY

• Actively participate in the promotion of the corporate safety program, “All in for Safety” to build the site vision of a Zero Incident Mindset (ZIM) culture. Participation will include conducting employee safety observations, employee engagement activities, one-on-one peer interventions on the shop floor.
• Development, implementation and maintenance of corporate and site policies, procedures, programs, and databases related to health and safety.
• Lead and manage Knowlton’s Process Safety Governance Council meetings.
• Develop and manage Process Safety Management program current best practices. Assist in the development of Process Safety training modules.
• Coordinate and lead safety inspections/audits of various safety programs. Communicate the findings of audits and develop action plans for findings.
• Lead and manage Knowlton’s safety-related training program, including development and/or identification of training materials, assuring compliance with regulations, and achieving training program goals developed as part of the training review process. The presentations are associated with company policies, OSHA requirements, Knowlton’s semiannual Safety Day, new employee safety orientations, routine safety training and toolbox talks.
• Prepare federal, state, and local reports to appropriate agencies, as needed to assure compliance with regulations.
• Assist plant operations by providing process technology support for operating systems. Ensure plant departments are informed and provided process engineering standards & procedures during the development, design and construction phases of projects and that suggested improvements are captured in project files and acted upon.
• Participate in the site Management of Change process, including risk assessment evaluations, Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews (PSSR), Hazard Reviews, Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA’s) of new or modified equipment and processes.
• Manage Knowlton’s Contractor Management program.
• Train and assist operations, facilities, and maintenance in the completion of Job Hazard Analyses. Verify that completed and approved JHA’s are loaded to the facility database of completed analyses.
• Perform regular safety and environmental plant walks to facilitate HSES objectives and ensure continuing regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate and manage industrial hygiene support for site operations: air monitoring, qualitative exposure assessments, control assessments, maintenance of the site’s chemical safety data sheets library and system, PPE certifications, and employee communications.
• Lead and/or participate in incident investigations as required.
• Lead and manage Life Critical Procedures program: lockout tagout, confined space, hot work, line break, safe work permit, working at heights, fall protection and energized electrical work.
• Manage Knowlton’s Emergency Response Program. Coordinate drills, training, procedure updates, and local agency interactions. Member of HazMat emergency response, incident command, medical responder teams.

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Support site environmental programs as required.
• Participate in environmental inspections, as needed, to ensure compliance. Examples include radioactive sources, transformers, fire system inspection, fire pump verification, chemical storage tanks, waste storage areas (satellite & accumulation), etc.

Hazardous Waste

This position may have to collect or transport hazardous waste from the point of accumulation to the point of disposal. This position will require training in both the awareness level of hazardous waste operations, and the operations level. This training will be conducted at the time of hire, and annually thereafter. Individuals in this position must be able to comply with site procedures related to hazardous waste and must at all times mitigate the regulatory risk associated with hazardous waste operations.

SECURITY/OTHER

• Develop, manage and lead the mill-wide security system and program.
• Using internal and external resources; provide guidance to site management for implementation of programs or controls to comply with HSES requirements.
• Manage plant systems related to security, fire protection, employee access, video camera surveillance system, etc.
• Support all other site HSES objectives and initiatives as directed by the HSES Manager and HSES team members.
• Additional assignments vary based on individual skills and interests.

QUALITY

Supports, maintains, and continually improves Knowlton Technologies, LLC Quality Management System in accordance with requirements of the IATF 16949 International Standard. Employee has the role and responsibility to follow the work instructions and Current Best Practices that support the KT Value Stream Maps.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully the incumbent must accomplish each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, Process Safety, or other related technical discipline.

5+ years of experience in related HSES role or process engineering is preferred.

SKILLS

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong technical/ analytical skills, the ability to handle multiple tasks and responsibilities and the ability to work in a cooperative, team-oriented atmosphere.
• Strong initiative focus and follow-through skills.
• Strong computer skills in standard office software programs
• Effective organization and planning skills.
• Mechanical aptitude

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Since the facility is located on multiple levels, the employee must possess the ability to climb stairs on a routine basis.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, chemical vapors and airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment ranges from office conditions to 95 dB in certain areas of the factory.