EHS Specialist

The Opportunity:

Avantor | NuSil Technologies is looking for an EHS Specialist to join our Bakersfield, CA facility.
 
This role will be a full-time position based in Bakersfield, CA. Some domestic travel expected (up to 20%). 

The team 

Our NuSil Environmental Health Safety (EHS) business unit provides and maintains a safe working environment for our chemical manufacturing facility.

What we’re looking for 

• Education: High School Diploma or GED is required; Bachelors degree in a safety-related and/or equivalent field is preferred

• Experience: 1-2 years of experience in chemical manufacturing or other heavy industrial manufacturing industry or equivalent 

  • Will be required to pass pulmonary function test in order to wear a respirator. 

• Collaboration Tool: Microsoft Office experience is required 

• Preferred Qualifications: 

  • 3 years or more of direct EHS experience

  • Process Safety Management subject facility experience

  • Oil industry EHS experience

  • Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Essentials of Hazardous Materials Management (EHMM), and / or Occupational Hygiene and Safety Technician (OHST) certification or greater

How you will thrive and create an impact 

The Specialist will be familiar with specific strategies around chemical safety, process safety, flammable materials storage and handling, and emergency response strategies. A proven understanding of ergonomics, materials handling, lockout/tagout, confined spaces, and permit-to-work systems is helpful. 

• Develop facilitate, and promote employee safety improvement (Kaizen events, safety councils, and safety meetings).

• Communicate and coordinate guidelines for employee and contractor safety awareness.

• Recommend improvements and standardization to practices and procedures to ensure safe and healthy work conditions and maintain right to operate (environmental compliance).

• Conduct and/or review job safety analyses of fabrication, packaging, and maintenance work areas and processes to identify and mitigate EHS issues, such as chemical, biological, physical and musculoskeletal stresses. Provides compliance advice for hazard prevention and risk-control principles and strategies.

• Complete regulatory submissions, notifications, etc. required to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local EHS requirements. Interact with EHS agency for inspections and regulatory advocacy.

• Drive EHS audit program to examine compliance with regulations and conformance with corporate standards and other related commitments. Ensure the tracking to closure of corrective and improvement actions taken in response to audit findings. Perform data analysis of the results.

• Lead and coordinate training programs to increase proficiency in EHS practices and promote awareness.

• Document and maintain required training records per organizational and corporate guidelines.

• Lead specialized work streams or be called upon to assist in implementing or completing special EHS related projects, including for other locations within the company.

• Keep the local operations team advised of their progress in implementing their safety program, interpret safety stats and give advice on how they can improve based on what you’re seeing, keep visible the performance metrics (leading and lagging indicators), monitoring results, etc. for organization’s EHS programs.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (Those necessary to perform the job competently) 

• Collaborative Teammate with good social skills. 

• The mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to maintain a pleasant and professional manner with coworkers, vendors, and customers.

• Must effectively handle and prioritize multiple tasks, concentrate on work while surrounded by distractions, meet deadlines, and work as a teammate. Ability to work independently (under limited supervision), receive, comprehend, and follow sophisticated oral and written instructions and orders from supervisory and/or management staff.

• The employee will need to make decisions on imperfect information and communicate and give sophisticated oral and/or written instructions.

• Reliable attendance desirable. 

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL EFFORT (Under Typical Positions) 

• Must wear respirator for some required job functions.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• For safety, the use of contact lenses for any reason, cosmetic or corrective, is prohibited on the production floor, in the lab areas, in the engineering shop, or while working on equipment.

• The company will provide prescription safety glasses with a current (under 12 months) vision corrective prescription provided by the employee. 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear.

• The employee frequently is required to sit for prolonged periods.

• The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move a minimum of 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 

• The work environment of this position is non-climate controlled.

• The employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level is usually moderate. 

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Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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Pay Transparency:

The expected pre-tax pay for this position is

$58,000.00 - $97,000.00

Actual pay may differ depending on relevant factors such as prior experience and geographic location.

EEO Statement:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

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