EHS Specialist Iii

Ashland Industria de Ingredientes do Brasil Ltda.

EHS Professional (Cabreuva, Brazil)

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a EHS Professional to join our Life Sciences business at our Cabreuva, Brazil location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the ESH function. This position will report to Life Science EHS Lead.

Job Summary

Supervises activities related to safety, occupational health, & environmental safety for operations in Brazil to ensure the implementation of policies, preventive programs and internal audits, in order to ensure better working conditions, prevention of accidents & incidents in accordance with Responsible Care. Position will also have responsibility for Ashland’s Sao Paulo laboratory.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Assessment of environmental aspects and hazards to occupational safety and health.
- Perform ongoing verification of legal compliance in relation to EHS issues.
- Communication with the neighborhood, community, certification bodies and public agencies in relation to EHS issues including CETESB, CB, MTE, City Hall, PF, PC, Army, IBAMA.
- High Hazard Coordinator - Hot Work, Elevated Work, Lockout/Tagout, Electrical Safety, Confined Space, etc.
- Performance monitoring and preparation of the annual EHS performance report.
- Communication with the internal public about contributions to the continuous improvement of the EHS management system;
- Control of approvals of documented procedures in the management system.
- Elaboration, updating and execution of simulated EHS emergency exercises.
- Investigation of incidents and monitoring of action plans (corrective and improvements);
- Management of responsibilities related to Specialized Services in Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine, PPRA and PCMSO and preparation and communication of Service Orders.
- Periodic environmental monitoring (noise and effluents), waste management and selective collection.
- Implementation of the Safety Machine Program.
- Determine the necessary competencies of people who carry out work under their responsibility and manage the actions necessary for their development.
- Management of the ergonomic conditions of employees.
- Verification of compliance with the necessary routines to ensure water potability - cleaning of water tanks and monitoring of the quality of artesian wells.
- Approval of warehousing, transportation and manufacturing service providers (tollers) in relation to EHS and monitoring of improvement actions.
- Follows Ashland's Code of Conduct as well as Health, Safety and Environment guidelines.
- Identifies areas needed for development. Recommends training programs and procedures to support strategic compliance plans. Carries out implementation of training programs and plans.
- Expected to have ready answers to technical questions. Establish a skill area. Applies technical knowledge to negotiate regulatory compliance.
- Good overall knowledge of environmental, health and safety regulations and interpretations with specific knowledge Process Safety Management (PSM)
- Manage Responsible Care activities related to environmental, health and safety related standards.
- Manage Operational Risk and Emergency Response.
- Lead the efforts within the group of facilities that you have responsibility for to reduce the overall risk at each facility.

In order to be qualified for this role, you _must possess_ the following:

- Complete Higher Education in Administration, Environmental or Safety Engineering.

The following skill sets are _preferred_ by the business unit:

- Experience in Area of Occupational Safety & Team Management
- Bilingual - Portuguese & English

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and a