EH & S Manager

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Environmental Health & Safety Teams ensure and monitor safety in the workplace. This includes the application and communication of health, safety and hazardous material standards, procedures and practices consistent with TE, environmental and government regulations.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Develop, plan, implement, maintain, and monitor an EHS management system for the organization that meets the TE Safety Assessment for Effectiveness (SAFE) requirements, implements TE environmental sustainability programs, ensures compliance with all relevant regulations, TE policies and TE specifications and provides for continuous improvement in EH&S performance.
• Ensure TE safety initiatives required by the TEOA Safety Tool are deployed for the organization, including behavior- based safety (BBS), ergonomics programs, risk assessment, EHS training, machine guarding and employee engagement.
• Assess, evaluate, quantify, and prioritize EHS risks for the organization and develop action plans for ensuring all significant risks are controlled and managed as part of the operational controls defined within the EHS management system and TEOA processes and procedures.
• Create and deliver training programs to ensure those involved in maintaining the organization s EHS programs are aware of their responsibilities and how to discharge them. Provide training for all employees in support of achieving 100% engagement in EHS.
• Create organizational EHS metrics where needed that drive improvements in EHS performance, near hit reporting, behavioral safety scorecards, ergonomic assessment, risk assessment data, environmental permit data, hazard reporting, etc.
• Participate in risk assessments, advising risk assessment teams on the assessment process; quantification of risks; prioritizing risks for action and effective risk control measures.
• Take a leadership role in ensuring the execution of TE Corporate, IS Segment, and ADM business EH&S programs and directives.
• Oversight of the local safety committee and lead the team on observational safety to proactively prevent safety issues.
• Key stakeholder of the Plant Management team. Proven ability to develop and lead a team.
• Train, coach and support team members involved in delivering the EHS programs.
• Plan and deliver EHS training to create the competencies needed to deliver the EHS program to site leadership and employees.
• Engage with site and business leadership and employees to drive EH&S program and performance improvements.
• Ensure additional EH&S expertise and resources are identified as needed, and requests made to the Plant Manager.
• Support and guide employees to enable them to work safely, comply with regulations, TE policies and specifications, and support environmental sustainability goals to ensure site targets are achieved.

What your background should look like:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety and 7+ years related experience required; if a degree is in a related technical or engineering field, but not specific to EHS, then a recognized postgraduate qualification (e. g. Master s Degree, etc.) in an environmental or health and safety discipline is required
• Experience in a technical, engineering or manufacturing role
• Strong demonstrated communication, negotiation, influencing, collaboration, and team-building skills
• Demonstrated ability in conducting audits and inspections of all aspects of EHS throughout a site

Competencies