Environment, Health and Safety Manager Fulltime

Metal Technologies is a premier metal casting company that uses modern technology and a highly productive workforce to produce the best quality product. Since 1997, we have been a privately held, family-owned company. Metal Technologies produces high quality gray iron, ductile iron, austempered ductile and value-added machining for a variety of industries. Each foundry has unique processes and capabilities that complement specific product families and specifications. As a growing company, Metal Technologies offers a wide range of challenging and exciting career opportunities. If you are looking for a progressive company that promotes and rewards individual achievement, consider applying for a position with us.

MTI is committed to building and maintaining a culture of excellence through an adherence to our values:
• Faith.We honor God in everything we do.
• Family. We are family.
• Spirit.We can do this.
• Grit.We enjoy getting our hands dirty.
• Vision.We create opportunity.
• Rigor.We focus on process.

We offer a diverse and inclusive variety of benefits. At MTI we believe that taking care of our employees means to ensure that they can live healthy balanced lives which results in better work performance.

General Summary:

Responsible for the overall management, direction and coordination of safety and environmental activities within the assigned facility or facilities.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
• Leads the safety process within the assigned plant(s).
• Develops procedures for compliance to state and federal safety and health standards and assists plant staff with implementation.
• Interprets/explains/adapts corporate policies and procedures and assists plant staff in policy implementation.
• Leads the incident learning process.
• Participates with human resources in the worker’s compensation and return to work process.
• Manages the medical surveillance and qualification process.
• Provides for effective training and education in safe work practices.
• Ensures maintenance of required documentation and reviews periodically to ensure the documentation adds value.
• Reviews/inspects operations periodically and maintains regular presence on the plant floor.
• Leads the continuous improvement process for risk reduction.
• Establishes trusting, psychologically safe relationships with managers, supervisors, and the hourly workforce.
• Ensures adherence to environmental requirements (as determined by the Corporate Environmental Director). This includes tasks such as periodic training, drills, corrective action team involvement, etc.
• Acts as the facility’s environmental “expert” and emergency response leader.
• Collaborates with the Corporate Sustainability Manager on sustainability initiatives defined within the Environmental Management System (EMS).
• Manages regulatory inspections and citations.

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements:
• Ability to lead and develop direct reports.
• Critical thinking, participative management, and project management.
• Excellent understanding of state and federal safety regulations.
• Ability to conduct industrial hygiene surveys such as sampling for air contaminants and noise and perform ergonomic assessments.
• Ability to facilitate process improvement projects to reduce risk.
• Ability to guide teams in the incident learning process.
• Ability to customize safe operating procedures through interaction with affected work groups.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with employees, line management and upper management, support functions within the company and members of the community such as local emergency response personnel.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Desire to learn manufacturing processes and be involved in improvement activities other than those related to safety.

Working Conditions
• The EHS Manager will reside 60% in the office and 40% on the production floor. Must be able to adhere to conditions of the plant

Physical Requirements
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time.
• Must be able to move about inside the office and occasionally in the plant, access file cabinets etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery such as calculator, copy machine and printer.
• Must be able to communicate with employees and other individuals in person and telephone.
• May operate a vehicle when traveling to other facilities, customers, suppliers, etc.

Education and Experience Requirements:
• BS in Occupational Safety & Health or related discipline. (May substitute equivalent demonstrated competency.
• 5-10 years safety process experience in, heavy manufacturing. Foundry safety experience is a plus.
• Environmental compliance experience (CAA, CWA, RCRA)
• A track record of proactively implementing successful safety initiatives.
• Experience with and/or working knowledge of human and organizational performance (Learning teams, Safety II, Safety Differently) is a plus.