EHS Manager
Company: The Sherwin-Williams Company
Location: Portland
Posted on: February 2, 2025
Job Description:
This position is responsible for supporting and executing the
environmental, health and safety (EHS) systems supporting both
plant and divisional initiatives. The role will ensure that EHS
processes meet objectives of Sherwin-Williams' Corporate and
Divisional standards, policies, procedures, and guidelines. This
individual works with divisional and site leadership and team
members to create and sustain EHS culture, processes, systems and
risk reduction projects.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
(1) This is a dual role position with the primary responsibilities
for:
- Remote and onsite support for maintaining compliance and
reducing risk working within the Sherwin-Williams Environmental
Health and Safety Management System for select sites with up to 50%
travel primarily local to a general geographic region (Midwest,
Southeast, West Coast)
- Lead and contribute to division level continuous improvements
projects to improve EHS performance.
(2) Support Sites in Global Supply Chain (GSC) Division:
- Assists sites with developing, managing and executing EHS
tactical plans per division/region/site guidance.
- Promotes employee recognition and reporting of hazards, both
corrective and preventative. Supports risk assessment processes by
participating in these events and assists sites with Action Plan
(AP) closure including implementing management system approaches to
prevent recurrence.
- Manages assigned APs from Sherwin-Williams electronic EHS
management system (CARES) and other tasks and assists sites and
other subject matter experts in addressing and closing these
APs.
- Able to identify and coordinate site needs with Subject Matter
Experts and assists with execution of projects and
initiatives.
- Participates in GEMBA (manufacturing floor) walks and Kaizen
(continuous improvement) events with site teams as EHS subject
matter expert.
- Coordinates with Sherwin-Williams management and workers and
all EHS providers (i.e., Axiom nurse consultant, local clinics,
insurers, contractors) to ensure employees EHS management systems
are maintained to reduce risk and comply with regulations.
- Provides guidance and training to sites to develop and
implement behavioral safety processes. This includes managing
proactive observation cards/behavioral observation systems,
compiling data and identifying and communicating trends.
- Participates in required environmental inspections of processes
and equipment. Follows up accordingly on identified gaps.
- Coordinates with Corporate Environmental team and assists sites
with implementing systems to comply with regulatory requirements,
permits and inspection results.
- Generally accessible to respond to site emergencies and provide
verbal, remote or on-site guidance.
- Promotes a positive work culture by engaging with all levels of
employees including in manufacturing areas to learn processes,
identify risks, reward positive behaviors and intervene when hazard
conditions or at-risk behaviors are observed.
- Receptive to and timely responds to requests and concerns as
needed.
- Supports GSC sites globally as requested including backfilling
EHS Managers for short-term periods and for special projects.
(3) Learning Management/Training/Onboarding:
- Collaborates with other teams (i.e., Learning & Development) to
ensure onboarding and training systems for GSC are current and
being utilized.
- As directed, supports EHS Training Plan/Calendar and assists
site management in the geographic region in executing training to
comply with internal and regulatory EHS requirements.
- Assist Operations with the development of Standard Operating
Procedures (SOP) and other procedures.
(4) Site EHS Manager Development/Progression:
- Gains knowledge and experience to become subject matter expert
for EHS regulatory requirements.
- Acts as a role model for EHS site personnel. Mentors EHS
personnel as appropriate.
- Acts a backup site contact for region, division and corporate
resources and audits as well as regulatory agencies such as the
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and those at the state/local level.
(5) Divisional Continuous Improvement:
- Utilizes tools such as CARES and Sherwin-Williams environmental
tracking software to manage site data and identify trends.
- As directed, generates monthly reports for division based on
key metrics and initiatives.
- Compiles and analyzes EHS data for continuous improvement
opportunities at sites.
- Attends mid--year and other team meetings, as needed.
- Collaborates on Corporate/Division EHS Initiatives.
- Leads, supports and participates in EHS Committees as
assigned.
- Participate with leadership team in reviewing new processes,
equipment and changes to help ensure EHS requirements are
met.
- As directed, participates in incident investigations and root
cause analysis. Verifies actions are established and entered in to
CARES for tracking and analysis.
- Assist with tracking EHS capital projects and execution as
requested.
- Assists with new business and site integration activities to
ensure new locations adopt Sherwin-Williams culture, processes and
systems as requested.
(6) Audits & Assessments:
- Leads, participates and is a primary resource for OSHA
Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) self-assessments.
- Supports and assists with compliance to Sherwin-Williams EHS
Standards and OSHA VPP elements if currently in program or supports
existing plans to achieve in the future.
- Leads EHS and Process Safety Management (PSM) audit preparation
and assists sites as needed prior to audits. Participates in EHS
and PSM audits.
- Able to understand EHS International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) requirements in order to assist sites with
ISO audit preparation.
- Able to evaluate and implement EHS Management Systems.
- Able to perform regulatory evaluations and permit breakdowns to
develop Environmental Management Systems in conjunction with
Corporate Environmental and Site Leadership teams.
- Participates by owning tasks in CARES Compliance module to
ensure assigned regulatory required tasks are current.
"Job duties include contact with other employees and access
confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of
value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The
Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history
is necessary to protect the business and its operations and
reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's
staff, employees, and business relationships."
FORMAL EDUCATION:
Required:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Bachelor's degree with five years of experience
Preferred:
- Bachelor's Degree in an Environmental, Health & Safety
discipline, Engineering, Business or related field.
- Experience in a manufacturing or distribution
environment
- Experience with external programs such as VPP, ISO 14001 and
sustainability initiatives.
- Certification or eligible for certification as a CSP, ASP, GSP,
CIH, CHMM or similar.
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
Required:
- 5 years Environmental, Health & Safety experience
- Knowledge of EPA standards and OSHA regulations
- Experience with Microsoft Office
- Internal Applicants from a GSC Site must have achieved a 95%
compliance score with Sherwin Williams Standards.
Preferred:
- Leadership skills.
- Decision making skills.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Experience in technical writing relative to safety programs and
written requests.
- Strong presentation skills, and well versed in training, both
individual and group setting.
TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- Being able to complete work with and through other
people.
- Being able to work with multiple functional areas as well as
ever-changing organizational structure.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: (TIME SPENT AWAY FROM HOME OR OTHER TYPICAL
OFFICE LOCATION)
Keywords: The Sherwin-Williams Company, Portland , EHS Manager, Executive , Portland, Oregon
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