[Hiring] Environmental, Health & Safety Manager @Cox Enterprises

Role Description

The role of the Regional EHS Manager is to ensure the successful implementation and practice of our EHS processes and procedures to drive a culture of caring among team members, clients/customers, and vendor partners. Work directly with site leadership and employees, office and field-based personnel to drive improved engagement in the assigned region. Lead the development and implementation of sustainable safety and environmental programs across the business. A major focus on the maintenance of safety management systems and the reduction in the frequency and severity of injuries to our people by partnering with functional leaders and staff to analyze problems and successes to optimize future operations.

This role will work with partners across the region to align program support to the overall business objectives and culture we need to enable all team members to work safely and protect the communities where we operate. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relationships with supporting key stakeholders.

• Drive the operational implementation of EHS programs through partnership to build a proactive culture of safety, compliance, and performance.
• Collaborates across all CAI Safety Teams (One EHS Team Approach) focused on both leading and lagging indicators to ensure proper safety defenses are being evaluated; key member of the incident investigation and improvement process.
• Partner with Recon and Lean Daily Management teams to ensure safety measurements impact and reflect the Cox Automotive safety culture, while driving leading indicator safety programs that establish a restorative approach.
• Work to establish timelines and action closure process on all identified corrective actions that arise from inspections, reviews, and recommendations. Ability to remove an audit atmosphere to a department support relationship.
• Support revised standardized environmental practices to ensure consistency with company standards and all provincial and federal regulations.
• Assist in the building of site safety and environmental policies and improvement plans that focus on continuous improvement.
• Works with auction site partners to help in the development and implementation of the training.
• Develop and implement an incident response plan, to include incident and near miss reporting process and to include review, analysis, and communication of findings.
• Assist with the Learning Team approach to working directly with employees and understand how work is completed to better protect the workforce.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field.
• Alternative combinations: a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 8 years’ experience in a related field.

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal skills that foster team building and “buy-in” of new initiatives and goals at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements and facilitating requirements gathering sessions is required.
• Ability to complete Risk Assessments and Safe Work Practices (Standard Work).
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently.
• Experience in root cause and corrective action analysis.
• Ability to drive programs and improvements across a matrix organization.
• Experience with data analysis and visualization and familiarity with databases, data structure, and queries is preferred.
• Ability to travel extensively (65%).

Benefits

• Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as deemed consistent with duties and company needs.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for personal or family wellness.
• Additional paid time off for bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.