Job Description

About the job

This role will lead all aspects of Health and Safety initiatives for the various Smelter areas. This position works closely with location manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, and support staff personnel to develop and deploy a wide-range of comprehensive EHS systems that support Alcoa's dedication to zero non-compliances, eliminating fatality and serious injuries and driving Critical Risk Management (CRM).

Crucial Job Duties:

Manages the EHS systems for the assigned area of responsibility. The successful incumbent will play a key leadership role in reducing risk of incident and injury and will drive implementation of Human Performance systems.
Own the H&S training coordination and implementation for hourly and salaried employees, performs internal self assessment activities (ASATs), monitors, tracks, and reports key EHS metrics, and ensures compliance with federal, state, local and corporate regulatory programs.
Assist with incident investigations to ensure completeness and accuracy, develop and track corrective actions, act as a change agent for the area, and lead multi-disciplinary teams to make process improvements and reduce risk of injury.
Apply problem solving methodology, work with data analysis tools to identify trends, identify root causes of problem areas, generate potential action plans and supervise progress in significant and critical areas, as well as track continuous improvement.

Additional Duties:

Implementation of Regulatory and Corporate Engineering Standards
Lead joint plant safety committee and serve as member of the Plant Safety and Health Steering Committee and Warrick Safety Lead Team
Coordinate department health/medical surveillance programs
Conduct floor observation, housekeeping, and compliance audits
Participate in training of new employees on department specific hazards
Lead various projects to promote continuous improvement and safety initiatives

About you:

Our values – act with integrity, operate with excellence, care for people – are at the foundation of everything we do. To be successful in this role and to play a part in our ongoing success we desire the following background:

A Bachelor of Science degree in Safety Management, Safety Engineering or related field
Knowledge of OSHA requirements
2 years of professional experience in environmental, health, and safety
Able to proactively seek out efficient methods for implementing change to current safety solutions
Possess strong customer service and teamwork values, good verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work optimally with others
Experience in heavy industrial/manufacturing is preferred
Experience in a union environment preferred