Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Finlays is looking for our newest Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Specialist to develop, lead, and manage, a robust and comprehensive environmental, occupational health and safety program at Finlays’ northeast facilities.

This role exercises problem solving techniques and innovative leadership to achieve Finlay’s ‘Zero Harm’ strategies, whilst engaging all company employees to guarantee a high-performance safety culture. This role must drive performance, consistency, and compliance, to improve our safety culture and achieve ‘World Class’ status.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Implement and sustain programs which directly support Finlays ‘Zero Harm’ Safety program.
• Maintain all safety records such as training registers and OSHA 300 logs.
• Complete applicable environmental or safety regulatory filings.
• Monitor and measure occupational health and safety data, relative to key performance metrics, to identify trends and/or areas requiring improvement.
• Manage local Worker’s Compensation claims.
• Prepare insightful and timely reports for Finlays Americas Health and Safety performance.
• Lead all safety incident investigations, to include near miss situations or major/minor injuries.
• Act as the Management Representative for Finlays ISO 14001 and 45001 programs.
• Lead the health and safety audit program by scheduling audits, assessing the findings, and provide feedback which is meaningful, objective and value adding to the Senior Leadership Team.
• Maintain the existing PPE programs.
• Provide EHS consultative services when it comes to the design of new or modified equipment, aiding in the risk assessment and mitigation solution activities.
• Develop and maintain an ergonomic improvement program and recycling programs for waste streams.
• Standardize processes and procedures of the Health and Safety Management systems within the region.
• Engage all levels of Finlays Americas teams to ensure high levels of employee engagement and offer support for proposed changes / improvements using effective communication strategies.
• Write and maintain H&S policies and procedures and provide direction and support to operational teams.
• Identify H&S training requirements within the region. Plan a training strategy and deliver it.
• Lead key inspections and site visits to ensure that high standards are in place, setting the standards for peers / management across the business, impacting the Safety culture.
• Take specific responsibility on behalf of Finlays Americas to ensure the Team remains globally compliant regarding the required H&S, Environmental, Facilities and Equipment, Legislative, Regulatory standards.
• Drive operational improvements with Finlays Americas teams to improve Health and Safety Management, cut costs and drive efficiencies.
• Perform other job duties as needed.

QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for consistently maintaining safe quality food products by following good manufacturing practices, allergen controls, food defense, HACCP, SQF, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring visitors, contractors and customers are documented on each visit in and out of the facility to maintain good manufacturing practices, allergen controls, food defense/food security and HACCP controls.
• Responsible for immediately reporting all food safety and quality issues to management.
• Responsible for partnering with others, sharing knowledge, skills and information within assigned team and across functional areas.
• Exhibit an understanding of quality standards and the ability to speak to Finlays quality systems.

EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years’ experience in a food manufacturing environment preferred
• OSHA 10-hour General Industry (desirable).
• Certified internal auditor (ISO, SQF, or similar).
• Experience in completing health, safety, or environmental related tasks.
• Experienced training and facilitating of both small and large groups – able to deliver content effectively.
• Experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting.
• Project Management skills preferred.
• Strong verbal and written English, bilingual Spanish preferred.