EHS Facility Manager

Requistion ID: 83608 

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with over a century of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands.

Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality, and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dental care. Dentsply Sirona’s headquarter is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY. Visit www.dentsplysirona.com for more information about Dentsply Sirona and its products.

Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist VI

Job Summary: 

• Interprets, recommends, and complies with environmental, health, and safety regulations and/or company policies.
• Responsible for the activities of all EHS department personnel and ensuring compliance with environmental health and safety standards at the Dentsply Sirona, Milford Division including CAA, EPCRA, CWA, SARA, CERCLA, OSHA, RCRA, TSCA, HMTA, and state and local ordinances related to Life Safety. Additionally, this position will lead the organization pertaining to the EHS Mision, Vision, and Strategy ensuring compliance, program development, implementation, and sustainability.  Responsible for facilities maintenance function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepares and manages the yearly budget for the function.
• Continually develop comprehensive, lean EHS systems based on proven EHS methodology in a way that promotes employee accountability and will prevent or correct unsafe and/or environmentally unsound conditions.
• Standardize and communicate EHS systems, engage employees at all levels in evaluating EHS systems, and provide EHS leadership and support to site management and employees to ensure compliance with EHS federal, state and local statues and regulations and the Dentsply Sirona Corporate Safety Manual.
• Continuously review regulatory requirements and updates as well as interface regularly with regulatory authorities including DNREC, DEMA, OSHA, DSWA, etc.     
• Identify and provide the necessary resources, training and education and develop and lead the implementation of EHS training programs that will promote EHS awareness and assure compliance among all employees, including outside contractors.
• Develop and provide key EHS KPIs to evaluate the performance of EHS Program and direct the implementation of corrective action programs to ensure that safety issues are addressed in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Direct the collection and interpretation of employee industrial hygiene monitoring data and manages the creation and implementation of corrective action programs, if necessary, to assure that employee health matters are addressed in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Manage EHS staff and resources to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations while ensuring a safe work environment at the Milford facility.
• Manage the preparation and submission of technical reports, permit applications, monitoring data, EPCRA reports, etc. to the appropriate EHS regulatory agencies.
• Participate in the development of budgets for EHS related expenditures and provides guidance on EHS implications of all other expenditures including economic disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
• During emergencies, they function as Incident Commander; Divisional Emergency Response Coordinator; and Divisional Site Safety and Health Supervisor.  This role ensures that we have properly trained resources on site to manage an emergency.
• During regulatory audits (e.g. OSHA, DNREC/EPA, DOT, Corporate Interdivisional, etc.), function as liaison with regulatory authorities.
• Ensure facility meets cGMP standards
• Other duties as assigned
• Assists with EHS administrative responsibilities (e.g., recordkeeping, budget tracking, metric tracking, training tracking, UST inventory, etc.).
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in specified discipline

OR

• 15+ years EHS or other industrial manufacturing Management experience. 

Ideal candidate should possess a solid technical, production, engineering and maintenance background with a strong knowledge of Environmental, Health, and Safety regulatory requirements.  

Years and Type of Experience:

• Ten to fifteen years of progressively responsible experience in a management capacity within a chemical processing and manufacturing environment.  Maintenance and Facilities background preferred.
• A proven track record in managing multiple projects technically and financially; strong communication, organizational, leadership, supervisory, team building and technical skills and the ability to set objectives, define roles, assign tasks, motivate success, resolve conflict and work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced production environment.
• An equivalent combination of training and experience

Key Required Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities:

• Strong understanding of lean manufacturing concepts and use, including TPM, 5S, Poka-Yoke, and KPIs.
• EHS certifications and/or training. 

Equal Opportunity Employer: Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without unlawful discrimination or regard for race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, sexual or gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable local law.

Eligibility: All successful applicants must be eligible to work in the country the position is based.

Assistance: If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to [email protected].

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