The Regional Safety and EHS Manager is responsible for assessing safety and environmental health at facilities across the North America region. This position will collaborate with key regional and plant leaders to implement safety and environmental health programs to ensure compliance with regulations while promoting a culture of health and safety throughout all levels of the organization.

This role will report to the VP of Operations and will lead Safety and Health Initiatives across the Filtration Group Industrial, Americas region.

• Develop, implement and manage regional safety programs and policies ensuring alignment with OSHA/regulatory standards.
• Lead the execution of the regional Safety Strategy and present on progress to appropriate leadership team members.
• Continually assess effectiveness and/or gaps with safety initiatives and revise as needed.
• Collaborate with Plant leaders to ensure facilities are in compliance with state and federal regulations and have accurate safety documentation and reporting systems to stay in compliance.
• Conduct regular risk assessments, job hazard analyses, environmental health, job ergonomics and site inspections across the region.
• Lead incident report outs, investigations, root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
• Track, analyze, and communicate regional safety metrics (ex: TRIR)
• Develop and deliver safety training program tailored to different roles throughout the organization.
• Promote ongoing safety awareness using multi-channel communications in collaboration with HR and plant managers.
• Serve as a resource and mentor to production supervisors, safety champions and safety committee team members.

Education and Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Certification as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or OSHA certification (OSHA 500, OSHA 510/511) preferred.
• 10 years of experience in various safety roles in a manufacturing environment
• 2 years of experience in management or leadership role.
• Demonstrated success in Change Management and shifting the culture with step change in results.

Other skills and abilities:

• Progressive, flexible, and team oriented; possess results-based style and skill set with strong influencing skills.
• Able to communicate effectively, both written and verbally, to direct and motivate team and others at all levels of the organization, maintaining a persuasive and credible presentation style.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Strong analytical skills and process focused.

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.   

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates.  Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes.  With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.