Senior Environmental Health & Safety Manager

The Chemours•Corpus Christi, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world. CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive.   That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry. Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible.  In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry. Chemours is seeking a Senior Environmental Health & Safety Manager to join our growing Thermal Specialized Solutions (TSS) team. This position will be available at the Corpus Christi Plant located in Ingleside, TX and reports directly to the TSS Operations Vice President. Alternate TSS locations may be considered. This role leads business EHS & Operations Sustainability governance, leading EHS improvement plan development and supporting execution, establishing EHS standard work and division specific processes and programs, monitoring leading and lagging indicators, audit findings and recommendations, compliance with regulatory requirements and Chemours standards, driving zero incident mindset. The successful candidate will partner with site leadership, TSS leadership, and EHS COE

Requirements

10+ years’ experience in High Hazard Industrial Chemical Manufacturing
Experience leading deployment of EHS and sustainability programs in a manufacturing environment
Degree in Environmental, Health, and Safety, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or other STEM field
Demonstrated business acumen
Personal Leadership: Ability to take initiative, self-manage, identify what is needed and take effective action to bring about change and lead/implement change
Implementation: Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, achieve results on time and influence/negotiate with others at various levels of the organization
Networking/Team Building: Ability to work closely with site teams, facilitate discussions, work effectively with others to address complex tasks, interact with other subject matter experts to maximize results and to receive varied inputs and build alignment
Able to travel as needed, up to 30%

Nice To Haves

Degree in Environmental, Health, and Safety or related field
Business Direction: The ability to foresee and anticipate problems and make appropriate adjustments
Good to excellent technical background with independent thinking attributes and/or in-depth technical expertise
Experience with Lean methodologies
Advanced training in root cause analysis such as ABS

Responsibilities

Develops business EHS strategy and objectives with alignment of business leadership team, sites and Enterprise EHS & Operations Sustainability strategy to drive TSS to zero incident performance.
Provides high quality, felt leadership by collaborative site engagement, including field & EHS systems auditing, gemba walks, and planning.
Drives implementation of best practices to the sites – looking for opportunities to streamline, standardize and simplify, both within the business, and where appropriate across the Enterprise.
Identifies and leads the execution of opportunities to simplify processes and deliver business value
Ensures that learnings from incidents and trends across Chemours are understood and where appropriate, actions are taken to prevent recurrence in TSS facilities.
Actively participates on the TSS operations Leadership Team and in CDH Site Leadership meetings and the EHS leadership team, ensuring good communication and business alignment.
Receives business direction on role from VP Operations and functional direction from VP Technology, TSS, and EHS & Corporate Responsibility Vice Presidents.
Business EHS resource & coach to HTM SGCs (Safety Guardian Committees).
Assists sites with incident investigation, injury, illness and incident classifications, issue resolution, agency interactions, etc. for recordable injuries, Tier 1, Tier 2, repeat or high-risk issues, and other situations where support is requested.
Supports 2nd party auditing, permitting processes and EHS COE initiatives
Ensures appropriate MOC-P for TSS personnel; coaches and mentors site resources and provides input into the Enterprise EHS talent management process.