Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Company: Givaudan
Location: Carol Stream
Posted on: November 14, 2024

Job Description:

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

As our next EHS Manager , reporting to our Head of Operations for Chicago, you will direct and support management of all environmental, health and safety functions for our Carol Stream site in compliance with our EHS policies and processes, and with all applicable EHS regulations. You will manage risk and lead cultural change to reduce the probability of EHS incidents. You will also improve the EHS organization to deliver added value while promoting the EHS culture.

This position is located in Carol Stream, IL.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for:

• Support and advice site management on all EHS aspects; act as a coach to line managers to ensure that EHS becomes and remains a line responsibility
• Deploy EHS vision aligned with company strategy for the site, taking into account both the OPS/EHS Global strategy and programs and the local legislation
• Manage compliance with all EHS Regulations
• Responsible for all Site EHS trainings for our employees and contractors
• Deploy behavior-based safety programs
• Ensure safety and Health programs are strictly implemented
• Ensure emergency planning is effective
• Complete and submit regulatory reports
• Ensure KPI reporting is complete and initiate actions to move towards the agreed targets
• Track site safety behavioral audits and incidents, analyze trends on audits, incidents and near-miss reports and report same to management team
• Lead the "employee safety committee" to promote safety awareness and improve the safety of the site by leading issues identified to closure
• Manage all hazardous and non-hazardous waste activities
• Manage all documentation required
• Maintain good relationships with relevant external partners (authorities, communities, or networks)
• Be a primary contact for Federal, State, and local EHS regulatory agencies
• Be the main point of contact with other departments. Regulatory, IT, and regional Management Team Technical Skills:
  • Fluent English
  • Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment, and Risk Control, Root Cause Analysis
  • Process Safety Management
  • Audit
  • H+S Management
  • Emergency Management Required Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Engineering, EHS or another related field
    • 7+ years experience in the industry and prior experience in an EHS plant
    • Appropriate country EHS qualifications and certifications Additional Experience
      • Master's degree in chemistry, Engineering, EHS or another related field What We Can Offer You:
        • Healthcare Plan:
        • Medical
        • Dental
        • Vision
        • High matching 401k plan
        • Vacation days #LI-Onsite
          #Ops
          
          At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.
          You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
          
          Every essence of you enriches our world. Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
          Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.
          
          Remote working: On-site
          
          At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people's lives.
          You work within an inspiring teamwork culture - where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
          Join us and Impact Your World
          Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
          Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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