EHS Lead Specialist

Job Description SummaryThe EHS Lead Specialist will provide Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) operational support to the Asheville, NC CMC facility. The EHS Lead Specialist will work closely with the site EHS Leader and Operations team to drive implementation of programs to ensure all federal, state, and local EHS regulatory and GE management system requirements are met. The EHS Lead Specialist will also collaborate cross-functionally to continuously improve the site’s safety culture in the spirit of teaming and employee engagement. The successful candidate must be a proven leader, facilitator, and coach to bring focus, efficiency, and accelerate preventative program execution.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day EHS support for the facility.
• Lead safety improvement teams.
• Lead and mentor teams on continuous improvement projects.
• Support industrial hygiene programs at the facility including developing sampling plans, analyzing data and implementing corrective actions as required.
• Present to internal teams on metrics, project status and research.
• Direct implementation of company safety programs, to include developing safety methods, procedures and policies based on company guidelines.
• Monitor compliance programs and company metrics analysis and improvement system.
• Initiate, perform, develop, and oversee all aspects of safety and environmental training and documentation.
• Investigate EHS related incidents and near-misses, implement corrective actions, track corrective actions to closure.
• Recommend processes and safety features that will reduce employees’ exposure to chemical, physical, environmental, and ergonomic hazards.
• Maintain all relevant health and safety documents including but not limited to, OSHA General Industry safety, Environmental programs, all associated documentation including forms and trainings.
• Conduct EHS audits, implement corrective actions, track corrective actions to closure.
• Monitor, review, and manage site safety concerns, partnering with operational leaders to ensure timely closure.
• Manage the control and disposal of hazardous, universal and non-hazardous waste.
• Demonstrate flexibility to provide support to employees across all shifts.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree accredited  college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with a minimum of 4 years of EHS experience) 
• Minimum of 3 years of EHS or manufacturing operations experience or GE Leadership Program Graduate in lieu of experience

Desired Characteristics

• Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn​
• Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively​
• Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed ​
• Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative​
• Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
• Self-motivated individual
• Experienced in all Microsoft Office tools

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. 

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General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.​

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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