Yaskawa is searching for a Senior Manager, Environmental Health & Safety to lead manage and provide improvement strategies for all EHS activities at YAI and its subsidiaries. This role will optimize the performance of EHS initiatives, identify, manage, direct, and audit the systems required to limit all forms of risk leading to environmental mishaps, compliance violations, job-related injury or illness, property damage, and bad public relations. Along with creating and expanding an EHS strategy that when executed will drive site locations in becoming environmentally sustainable enterprise. Develop and implement location specific EHS policies, procedures, and programs. Ensure compliance related activities such as environmental permit requirements, EHS training, Ergonomic programs, are robust and maintained.
This role also involves setting strategy, managing all key components of risk, communications at all levels, using metrics and program results to adjust efforts and work for continuous improvement of YAI's EHS levels. \
The ideal candidate will have:
- 5 years or more in safety field with 2 or more years oversight of total safety management program for mid-size manufacturer
- BA/BS
- Experience in a light assembly production environment
- Experience in managing and administrating a comprehensive industrial safety program, loss control, workers' compensation insurance, Environmental and OSHA regulations
- Experience in implementing Ergonomic programs
- Experience in training work forces
- Experience in developing training programs, especially on-line with user interaction, change management, and feedback.
Some key advantages of working at Yaskawa include: career opportunities in diverse areas, a highly competitive benefit package, including a generous 401(K) plan, profit sharing, corporate wide bonus plan and educational assistance program offering up to $10,000 a year for graduate courses. Additional information regarding the benefit package can be found at the following link.
https://www.yaskawa.com/about-us/careers/benefits
If the Sr. Manager of EHS role sounds like a fit for your background and career goals, we would love to hear from you!
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Skills Required
- 5 years or more in safety field
- 2 or more years oversight of total safety management program
- BA/BS
- Experience in light assembly production environment
- Experience managing a comprehensive industrial safety program
- Experience implementing ergonomic programs
- Experience in training work forces
- Experience developing training programs
What We Do
Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division manufactures industrial control and automation products. It offers industrial AC drives, commercial HVAC drives, spindle drives and motors, servo systems and motion controllers, medium voltage switches, breakers, contactors, and low voltage industrial control products. The company’s products are used in air handler, blanking/shearing press, cartoner, clean room fan, compressor, conveyor, cooling tower fan, decanter centrifuge, engine dynamometer, extruder, grinder, injection molding, labeler, lathe, linear flying shear, machine tool, metalforming, mixer, pump, rotary knife, rotary placer, rotary table indexer, screw feeder, synch-belt, vibration feeder, water condenser chiller, and winding applications. It serves automotive, building automation, chemical/petrochemical, converting, food and beverage, machine tool, material handling, metal forming, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastics and rubber, and textile industries. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives and Motion Division began operations in 1967 and is headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives and Motion Division operates as a subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Corporation.
