Associate Director of SHE South Region

Requirements:

• Daily visibility with plant and production.
• Employee interaction in the field.
• Flexible to regular 50 minimum travel and overnight stays.
• Ability to partner with Operations Leadership Distributions and Regulatory Agencies.
• Customer focused setting positive example and drive change.
• Strong communication impact and presentation abilities.
• Action oriented driving results.
• This position performs field and jobrelated safety health and environmental inspections/audits that requires traversing uneven surfaces climbing ladders climbing stairs and moderate lifting up to 50 pounds.

Qualifications:

• BS degree preferred or equivalent relevant SH&E experience in the refining chemical and/or industrial manufacturing industries.
• Minimum of seven 7 years relevant experience.
• OSHA29
• CSP or ability to achieve the CSP within 3 years.
• Strong onsite SH&E background.
• Strong Process Management experience.
• Process Production and distribution experience.
• Experience dealing and interacting directly with regulatory agencies.
• Demonstrated proficiency in all areas of safety health and environmental.

About Linde:

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2024 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing highquality solutions technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets including aerospace chemicals food and beverage electronics energy healthcare manufacturing and primary metals. Lindes industrial gases are used in countless applications from lifesaving oxygen for hospitals to highpurity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers stateoftheart gas processing solutions to support customer expansion efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

For more information about the company and its products and services please visit www.linde.

• We offer a comprehensive competitive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation health dental disability life insurance 401(k) (with matching) and pension benefits.
• At Linde we strive to create a work environment that treats all employees with respect supports new thoughts and ideas encourages growth and development celebrates our differences and embraces inclusion. Linde is committed to remaining an employer of choice for the diverse everincreasing pool of global talent.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability protected veteran status pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

Linde thanks all applicants in advance for their interest; however only those applicants who are being considered for an interview will be contacted.

Pay commensurate with experience.

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Job Overview:

The successful applicant will be responsible for monitoring training implementing and ensuring compliance with Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) regulatory requirements of OSHA Federal and State General and Construction Industry regulations EPA local and state safety regulations and Linde internal standard plants for the South Region which include plants in the states of Texas Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma and Missouri. Position will be based out of our Deer Park (Houston) TX Plant.

Collaborates with all levels of management to identify and correct potential safety and health hazards and environmental situations and provides compliance assurance from a strategic and tactical standpoint to the Business. Ensures the implementation of safe and environmentally compliant standard work practices. Assures compliance with organizational and government environmental health and safety standards. Monitors organizational environmental safety and health performance and provides employee safety health and environmental training and compliance tools.

This Safety professional position applies advanced safety health and environmental knowledge to ensure zero injuries zero incidents and zero environmental events throughout the South Region business in the areas of environmental personnel safety at plants and on construction projects operational process safety distribution safety and environmental in order to protect the health and safety of all company employees as well as the surrounding communities and environments in which the company operates. Provides leadership guidance and assistance in the prevention/control of accidents and incidents. Leads three 3 direct reports SH&E Specialists.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Set and communicate the SH&E Strategic direction for Linde Gases U.S. South Region Business to ensure strong safety and compliance performance
• Drive implementation of the Annual LGUS SH&E Plan at South Region locations
• Communicate Annual LGUS SH&E Plan expectations to RVP and Operations Director
• Develops communicates and implements procedure enhancements to prevent potential injuries incidents and to meet industry practices
• Understand and communicate the potential impact on safety performance from human factors behaviors and risk tolerance
• Facilitate accident investigations including Root Cause Analysis for injuries/illnesses/key incidents and process safety events. Ensure all investigation team members are properly trained based on internal and regulatory requirements
• Provide environmental support for the South Region and coordinate with LGUS Environmental Team on all environmental issues
• Knowledge and understanding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chemical Facility Antiterrorism standards (CFATS) related to chemical vulnerability information (CVI) and facility chemical top screens
• Agency interface for regulatory agencies such as OSHA EPA DHS and TRRC. Resolve all issues related to regulatory compliance and/or permitting.
• Provide regulatory interpretation of OSHA standards for General Industry Construction and Recordkeeping.
• Provide interpretation on internal safety procedures to ensure compliance
• Provide work process review and signature approval for safe of hazardous work (for example reclassification of a confined space)
• Coordinate the near miss reporting process
• Based on injury incident and near miss trends develop and implement response actions for region operations
• Develop communications to share incident learnings for all incidents
• Ensures proper case management and reporting for all injuries
• Hurricane Team Coordination for the South Region
• Provide 24hour notification to corporate for Tier 1 Tier 2 and LWC events
• Interface with Linde Corporate SHE and GSS Construction on SHE related issues
• Develop SHE department budget track and ensures budget is met
• Lead and direct three 3 SHE Field Specialists providing support for operations and construction/projectexecution.

Requirements:

• Daily visibility with plant and productions/employee interaction in the field.
• Flexible to regular 50 (minimum) travel and overnight stays.
• Ability to partner with Operations Leadership Distributions and Regulatory Agencies.
• Customer focused setting positive example and drive change.
• Strong communication impact and presentation abilities.
• Action oriented driving results.
• This position performs field and jobrelated safety health and environmental inspections/audits that requires traversing uneven surfaces climbing ladders climbing stairs and moderate lifting up to 50 pounds.