SHE Specialist

Join Ecolab as a Safety Health & Environment (SHE) Specialist at our largest North American manufacturing facility in Joliet IL. This role is a key member of the extended Plant Leadership Team and supports building leading and sustaining a strong safety culture and worldclass SH&E systems across a 24/7 highcomplexity manufacturing operation consistent with the sites broader SHE strategy and leadership expectations.

The SHE Specialist supports Safety Health & Environment within Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and is an active member of the SHE Pillar partnering closely with Operations and Maintenance to embed safety into equipment processes and daily work systems while eliminating safety losses and exposure risks.

What You Will Do:

• Lead own and continuously improve the sites Safety Health & Environmental (SHE) Management Systems ensuring compliance with OSHA EPA DOT and applicable state and local regulations.
• Maintain environmental permits and compliance records including air water and waste requirements.
• Support the design development implementation and maintenance of SHE programs systems and procedures to protect employees the community and the environment.
• Serve as a member of the SHE Pillar within TPM supporting pillar strategy governance and maturity progression while driving elimination of safety losses.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance to integrate SHE requirements into equipment design operation and maintenance to prevent injuries and equipment related risks.
• Monitor and reduce chemical physical and biological hazards; recommend improvements to processes equipment and procedures to minimize risk.
• Support industrial hygiene chemical exposure control and process safety programs.
• Lead and support investigations of incidents and near misses conduct root cause analysis and ensure timely sustainable corrective actions.
• Use leading and lagging SHE metrics to analyze trends drive action plans and provide performance insights to plant leadership.
• Assist in developing and delivering employee training emergency preparedness programs and reinforce strong safety culture practices.
• Support safety observations behavior-based safety programs and safety committees.
• Coordinate and support ECAP and other SHE audits; partner with leadership to close findings and prevent recurrence.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Occupational Safety Environmental Health or a related field
• 3 years of relevant SHE experience (preferably in manufacturing or industrial environment)
• Working knowledge of OSHA EPA DOT and applicable safety/environmental regulations
• Experience supporting SHE management systems and compliance programs
• No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within a TPM operating system and/or SHE Pillar
• Experience with industrial hygiene process safety or chemical manufacturing environments
• Demonstrated ability to influence frontline teams and partner across Operations and Maintenance
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in RCA methodologies
• Experience driving safety culture initiatives and continuous improvement efforts
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel Word PowerPoint and MS Project

Site Information:

The Joliet IL facility is Ecolabs largest North American manufacturing site. The 600000squarefoot 24/7 operation manufactures approximately 900 formulas and 1700 SKUs including liquid powder organic and cast products that support clean water abundant energy and safe food.

Benefits

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- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 including a booster if eligible unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.

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