**Job Description**:
**Position Summary**:
**Primary Responsibilities**:
- Provides leadership, strategy and tactics to enable continuous improvement in occupational health, safety and environmental matters.
- Recommends safety and environmental improvement KPIs for plant use and assesses trend information for problem-solving and decision-making.
- Advises the front-line organization on HSE matters and is responsible for providing tools and training to allow the front-line organization to own and be responsible for the safety of their people.
- Partners with operations to ensure job hazard & risk assessments (JHRA) are conducted for both routine and non-routine work and monitors that identified hazards are managed by operations.
- Conducts assessments to determine legal and company standards gaps and improvement needs for HSE.
- Manages and documents the interface with regulatory authorities, both verbal and written.
- Provides technical training materials for occupational health, safety and environmental topics and ensures that regulatory-required training is conducted and documented.
- Maintains plant procedures, standards and guidelines for HSE topics and works with plant staff to ensure that roles and responsibilities are understood and accepted.
- Develops plant-wide competency in incident investigation and leads cross-functional (operations, maintenance, engineering, etc.) investigation teams.
- Reviews and approves plant capital projects for HSE considerations; prepares the budget and justification for HSE-related capital investments
- Recommends and manages HSE operating budget.
- Maintains plant HSE management systems and documentation (environmental management, safety & health management, energy management) and serves as the coordinator for implementation and compliance.
- Participates in Continuous Improvement events.
- Ensures required HSE data (incident information, environmental metrics, etc.) is entered in corporate databases in a timely manner.
- Manages the effective read-across for incidents occurring at other locations.
- Works with regional HSE team and local HR team to continuously develop HSE knowledge, skills and capabilities for both self and the local organization.
- Serves as a role model for safe personal practices.
- Act as local champion for regional or global HSE initiatives.
- May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description