Manager II-Health & Safety

Industry: Environ

Company: Clearwater Paper and Manchester Industries

Where you will work:The Cypress Bend facility is in the historic Mississippi River Delta and produces bleached paperboard and bleached Kraft pulp, used in the production of folding cartons, commercial print paperboard, carded packaging, and cupstock. This facility boasts over 300 talented employees and stretches across 730 acres. Clearwater Paper employees are proud to manufacture a high-quality product for an essential industry.

Cypress Bend is a rural community with close access to the Mississippi River. This is a wonderful location for those who love the outdoors and offers plenty of activities including fishing, hiking, camping, and biking. The Cypress Bend area also offers several opportunities for social and civic involvement including the McGehee Hospital, McGehee Boys & Girls Club, Food Pantry, Chamber of Commerce, Arkansas City Food Pantry, Paws and Claws Humane Society, and the Polite Foundation. Cypress Bend emphasizes exposure to the arts including the WWII Japanese Internment Museum, Desha County Museum, and SEArk Concert Association. Cypress Bend is in close proximity to McGehee, Monticello, and Drew Central public schools as well as UAM McGehee College of Technology and WAM Crossett College of Technology.

What you will do:

Leadership

• Lead the development and implementation of an annual health and safety operating plan.
• Demonstrate professional maturity and ability to act as a change leader by influencing all levels of the organization to drive continuous improvement in safety performance
• Proactively engage all site employees to establish an employee ownership culture
• Develop, implement, execute, and manage strategies to prevent workplace injuries.
• Exercise a leadership, coordination, and communication role with the location leadership team to drive continuous EHS improvement across the location

Health & Safety Compliance

• Develops and maintains site HS records and documentation to demonstrate regulatory compliance.
• Conduct HS activities such as training/auditing/assessing to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory agency and internal company requirements.
• Perform risk assessments and assist in the implementation of effective physical and/ or behavioral control measures. Recognize and verify the effectiveness of in-place control measures.
• Conduct incident investigations to obtain the root cause and ensure corrective actions are implemented to prevent reoccurrence.
• Manages the worksite industrial hygiene and hearing conservation process.
• Work with the site occupational health nurse to manage the overall worker’s compensation and return to work program.
• Interface with regulatory bodies (OSHA, State, Local).

Health & Safety Resources

• Provide overall site health and safety leadership, guidance, and technical support.
• Build capability of site resources to support implementation of health and safety programming.
• Review and interpret OSHA requirements
• Collaborate with plant team to ensure safe, practical solutions are achieved for identified health and safety risks.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify health and safety opportunities with equipment operation and conditions while demonstrating knowledge of appropriate corrective action for unsafe conditions or equipment use.

Key Competencies & Attributes

• Actively seeks and allocates appropriate decision-making authority or task responsibility to appropriate individuals based on their abilities, availability, motivation, and development needs; considers potential positive and negative impact, business unit priorities, organizational values, and the opportunity to enhance others’ knowledge and skills.
• Identifies barriers that impact customer service and retention; communicates concerns and recommendations to others.
• Uses understanding of customer needs and the organization’s customer service practices to set priorities, make decisions, and take actions that create customer satisfaction and prevent service issues from occurring.
• Creates relevant options for addressing problems and opportunities that will achieve desired outcomes.
• Systematically evaluates business opportunities, targeting those with the greatest potential for producing positive business results.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Safety/Health or related field.
• Minimum of five years’ experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Strong preference in experience in paper, pulp/paper mills; experience in high-speed industrial environments may be considered.
• Certified Safety Professional preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of local, state and federal EHS regulations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
• Must be results oriented and capable of driving the EHS process at a complex site.
• Must be able to work collaboratively in a union environment.
• Ability to build an effect team, develop and maintain positive working relationship and articulate objectives.
• Ability to maintain appropriate levels of confidentiality and sensitive information.
• Operating knowledge of industrial hygiene equipment.
• Must be able to read and interpret rules and regulations.
• Must be physically capable of standing, walking and climbing stairs up to 8-10 hours per day.
• Must be able to work in a hot, dusty, humid, noisy mill environment around high-speed equipment.
• Must be able to adjust work hours to support the safety and environmental needs of a 24/7 facility.
• Some travel required.

Total Rewards Detail:

We prioritize an exceptional workplace experience, offering a comprehensive total reward package. This position is eligible for our Incentive Plan. Compensation ranges are estimates based on market data. Actual offers account for internal equity and the candidate’s job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience. Benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, generally begin after 30 days. Our paid time off includes vacation days, personal days, and company holidays. For more on our compensation philosophy, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at Talent.Acquisition@clearwaterpaper.com.

Clearwater Paper does not offer sponsorship for employment-based visa status (including, but not limited to, H-1B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and will not require Clearwater Paper’s sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)