Health & Safety Specialist

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Section Manager -Environmental Health and Safety Recruiting at CPS, Inc.

Make a Real Impact in Health & Safety. This is more than a traditional maintenance-style safety role—it’s a chance to help shape a growing organization’s EHS culture from the ground up. We're a newer company with around 550 employees, and our leadership is fully committed to building a proactive, modern approach to health and safety. You’ll have direct visibility, meaningful influence, and the opportunity to drive change across all sites. With monthly global incident reviews and strong executive involvement, your ideas won’t just be heard—they’ll help shape the future. If you’re ready to move beyond the status quo and make a real difference, we want to hear from you.

General Description

The Site Health and Safety Specialist is responsible for providing HSES support to site manufacturing to ensure compliance, assess and mitigate risk, manage short-term and long-term Health, Safety, Environmental and PSM performance. Key responsibilities include teaching, coaching, and mentoring site people in implementing and improving management of HSES.

Position Responsibilities

Support site team to maintain and advance site HSES programs and systems including but not limited to the following:

Reporting directly to the site HSES Manager, drive the successful implementation of company EHS management systems, standards and policies. Work with the EHS/Site Teams to deliver sustainable compliance and risk management solutions.
Anticipate, identify and evaluate safety concerns, hazardous conditions and unsafe practices; implement and support safety programs and procedures. Assist all site associates with all aspects of H&S. Monitor the effectiveness of hazard controls and programs.
Establish a visible presence in process areas to better understand site EHS needs and build relationships with site teams.
Support, develop and deliver effective training on a variety of H&S topics using multiple delivery methods (face-to-face, computer-based, etc.).
Investigate and analyze EHS incidents and events. Prepare documentation to ensure adequate investigation and preservation of evidence is completed.
Coach and guide associates and management regarding safety compliance issues. Ensure each team member understands how his/her role contributes directly to supporting Site EHS and environmental performance.
Prepare applicable HSES reports as necessary, both internal and external (using multiple methodologies including use of enterprise data management software – iShare).
Conduct JSA/JHAs, PPE certifications and pre-task safety reviews.
Perform inspections of processing areas to proactively identify and eliminate hazards and exposures.
Conduct audits of the EHS Management System as well as Federal, State and local EHS regulations.
Develop an active employee safety committee that is motivated to influence the workforce to value safety, providing a forum in which labor and management can discuss health and safety issues and collaborate on solutions.
Perform other work-related tasks as required.
If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Crystal Meeks at cmeeks@cps4jobs.com.

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Salary

$100,000 - $125,000

Benefits

Medical, dental, flex spending, life insurance, short & long term disability, 401k

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

BS or BA Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Health and Safety or related discipline
4 to 8 years of experience in implementing site HSES compliance and risk management programs in a chemical manufacturing environment with demonstrated results

Preferred Qualifications

Certified Safety Professional, and/or Certified Industrial Hygienist
Experience working with Union workforce
Experience in chemical manufacturing
Experience with OSHA’s Process Safety Management Standard
Advanced computer skills
Audit experience or qualifications
If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Crystal Meeks at cmeeks@cps4jobs.com.

JO: 23.25CM

Seniority level

Seniority level
Not Applicable

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Manufacturing
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting

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