Title:  EHS Specialist

POSITION SUMMARY:

Assists in executing and facilitating Advanced Energy’s environmental, health and safety program portfolio with the goal of eliminating injuries and incidents, preventing property loss, and minimizing impact to human health and the environment. Responsible for ensuring employee awareness of programs, training, and overall compliance.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in execution of occupational health, safety, and environmental programs.
• Implement actions so Advanced Energy comply with applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, and standards through implementation of control measures.
• Perform hazard and environmental impact assessments and audits with business leaders and prepare comprehensive recommendations for corrective action to eliminate or minimize potential hazards or impacts.
• Maintain the chemical inventory list and ensure the SDS library database is up to date.
• Assist business partners with reporting incidents and near misses, incident investigations and recommend corrective actions.
• Steward and facilitate emergency action plans.
• Utilize EHS data management system (Velocity EHS) for collecting incident, hazard, inspection, chemical SDS and sustainability data
• Assist in maintaining EHS management system (ISO14001 and ISO45001).
• Perform tasks to ensure compliance with legal and internal requirements.
• Participate in the execution of tasks for the development of defined campaigns.
• Train staff in accordance with legal and internal requirements.
• Support audits, inspections, and visits from stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Location: Mexicali, Baja California
• Time is divided between office and production environments.
• Requires sitting, standing, walking, and talking for extended periods of time and lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally.

SKILLS:

Knowledge in the following areas:

• Safety culture development
• Effective communication
• Electrical safety and NFPA 70e
• Emergency response
• Ergonomics: office and manual materials handling
• Fall protection
• Hazard identification, risk assessment and control
• Hierarchy of controls
• Hot work
• Incident investigations
• Industrial hygiene
• ISO 45001 and 14001
• Key performance indicators & incident trending
• Controlling hazardous energy and lockout tagout
• Machine guarding
• Management of change
• Powered industrial trucks
• PPE selection
• Training- creating content and effective presentation skills
• Detail-oriented
• Self-directed with strong organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to influence without formal authority
• Ability to locate, interpret, and implement regulatory and consensus standards
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite of applications and other common computer tools