Safety Manager

CPS, Inc.

Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Baton Rouge, LA
Contract type: Full time

Lead safety across chemical facilities in a highly visible Safety Manager role where you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on safety culture, employee engagement, and continuous improvement. This is a hands-on leadership position for a leader, mentor, and coach with strong industrial experience, ideally in the chemical industry.

Key Responsibilities

  • Overall responsibility for safety across both sites
  • Spend approximately 50/50 time between the plants
  • Heavy safety and health focus
  • Environmental exposure
  • Serve as a leader, mentor, and coach to employees and site leadership
  • Build and strengthen safety culture across both facilities
  • Develop relationships with operations and frontline employees
  • Influence without direct authority
  • Promote employee ownership of safety
  • Encourage near-miss reporting
  • Support behavior-based safety initiatives
  • Ensure compliance - non-negotiable
  • Conduct safety audits, inspections, and investigations
  • Lead incident investigations and corrective actions
  • Monitor safety metrics and identify trends
  • Use data to drive safety improvements
  • Work with contractors and staffing personnel onsite
  • Partner with the Environmental Engineer on EHS initiatives
  • Ensure consistency in safety programs and expectations between both facilities
  • Pick up projects and see them through to completion

Salary

$100,000 - $140,000

Benefits Available

Technical / Compliance Requirements

  • Strong industrial safety experience
  • Chemical manufacturing experience ideal
  • OSHA knowledge
  • Incident investigation experience
  • Safety auditing and inspection experience
  • Data-driven mindset
  • Ability to assimilate and consolidate data from multiple EHS systems / platforms
  • PSM not required but ideal
  • Environmental experience / exposure is a plus
  • Experience in a highly regulated industrial environment

Leadership / Personality Profile

  • Strong leader who can drive EHS forward
  • Leader, mentor, and coach
  • Not a “safety cop”
  • Ability to be forceful when necessary
  • Adaptable leadership style depending on circumstances
  • Influence without authority
  • Able to build relationships with operations and frontline employees
  • Comfortable challenging leadership when necessary
  • Strong communication skills
  • Shows up consistently at both facilities
  • Strong follow-through
  • Can pick up projects and see them through
  • Does not get distracted
  • Comfortable managing priorities across two facilities
  • Able to hold people accountable while maintaining positive relationships
  • If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Crystal Meeks at .

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