Overview
Berry Global Berry Global, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important.’ With $13 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019 on a combined pro forma basis from operations, Berry is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry operates over 290 manufacturing facilities worldwide, on six continents, and employs over 48,000 individuals.
At Berry, we pursue excellence in all that we do and are always advancing to improve the way we work along with the products and services we provide. Our culture fosters trust and partnerships through appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion. At Berry, we are continuously improving to support our mission and exemplify our values of partnerships, excellence, growth, and safety. To learn more about Berry, visit berryglobal.com
Ensures compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations, keeps abreast of any changes to laws and regulations that impact the organization. Involved in the design, development, coaching, training and administration of environmental, health and safety systems and programs with multi-site responsibility. Serves as contact with federal, state and regulatory bodies.
Ensures compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations, keeps abreast of any changes to laws and regulations that impact the organization. Involved in the design, development, coaching, training and administration of environmental, health and safety systems and programs with multi-site responsibility. Serves as contact with federal, state and regulatory bodies.
Responsibilities
Ensures that Company safety procedures are followed and that environmental and health safety standards are met by conducting frequent audits and ensuring all personnel are trained. Performs duties in a safe manner; acts as a role model for all employees.
- Assumes a leadership role to maintain a vibrant environmental, health and safety training program. Coordinates and leads the Leadership Safety Council to establish and direct safety programs and activities.
- Leads activities in plant behavior based safety program; monitors participation and provides guidance to employees. Conducts training to ensure understanding of program goals and requirements.
- Participates and leads employee improvement teams to emphasize safety, housekeeping, and waste/cost reduction; promotes programs and encourages employee participation.
- Maintains accurate and complete Environmental, Health and Safety records in accordance with governing regulations and company policies. Ensures that OSHA record-keeping and reporting requirements are met.
- Oversees case management of Workers Compensation cases. Works closely with insurance providers and adjustors to ensure timely and safe return to work for injured employees.
- Conducts incident/accident investigations including “root cause analysis” for corrective action. Trains management personnel on incident investigations and proper documentation. Primary contact for OSHA inspections and incident/accident audits.
- Measures Plant performance, benchmarking against best in class manufacturing and leadership role to create plans to improve performance.
- Conducts EHS program training for all employees. Develops and conducts new training programs as needed. Participates in new hire orientation process by conducting required safety training.
- Performs worksite and incident trend analysis to sustain a comprehensive system for hazard prevention and control. Leads risk assessment activities to identify potential safety concerns. R
- esponsible for preparing, maintaining, and updating environmental policy, procedures; reviews all work instructions to ensure that all safety issues are identified and properly documented.
- Serves as primary contact with all federal, state, and local regulatory bodies; interfaces between regulatory bodies and, corporate personnel, insurance representatives, legal and others in order to ensure all requirements are met.
- Maintains SDS program and ensures that all employees are trained in their use. Monitors and approves all chemicals that are used in the plant to ensure proper use, labeling and storage.
- May be assigned responsibility for multiple sites. Provides support and direction to all assigned sites.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned.
Qualifications
Education: Knowledge normally acquired through completion of a 4-year degree in safety, environmental health, industrial hygiene or safety engineering. A comparable combination of education and experience may be considered as alternate qualifications for education.
Experience: In addition to the educational requirements, 4-7 years of directly related experience in the EH&S field or in a related area. Experience working in a manufacturing environment preferred. CSP (Certified Safety Professional), CIH (Certified Industrial Hygienist) or other comparable certification desirable or ability to obtain such certifications.
