Acara Solutions is looking for a Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) Specialist for our client located in Morton, Illinois.

• Direct Placement opportunity
• $60,000 to $80,000/yr based on experience
• Standard Monday-Friday business hours

The HSE Specialist will establish and promote the maintenance of a safe, accident free, environmentally sound and healthy work environment. The HSE Specialist, will provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to hourly, salaried and management employees ensuring employee health and the environment are protected. The HSE Specialist will report to the HR Manager / General Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintenance activities ensuring compliance with governmental regulations and corporate policies.
• Providing guidance to the company regarding activities and projects necessary to maintain regulatory compliance, attain environment and safety goals with responsibility for consulting with leadership teams concerning projects and initiatives.
• Reporting conditions to supervision that may adversely impact the safety of employees, contractors or the environment, to ensure prompt resolution of potential hazards.
• Participating in pollution prevention/waste reduction initiatives, working on cross-functional projects.
• Lead /instruct HSE training courses per the site training schedule to ensure compliance and improve HSE customer service, employee engagement and continuous improvement efforts in HSE operations.
• Facilitating incident reviews and assist in risk assessment and implementation of risk mitigation. Must actively work as part of the plant to ensure the best HSE practices and standards exist.
• Coordinate and conduct specialized Health, Safety and Environmental audits and inspections of premises and operations in conjunction with others to monitor performance and assist the relevant plant management to produce action plans to implement the necessary improvements.
• Maintain relevant records, produce reports, review statistics and completes reports for submission to various government agencies.
• Ability to analyze data to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements and internal needs.
• Demonstrated knowledge in ensuring compliance to all local/state/federal regulations to air, water, wastewater and hazardous waste.
• Develop and drive a sustainable safety strategy & culture
• Identifies applicable EHS regulations and evaluates impact to the plant
• Participates in developing corrective measures related to HSE.
• Develops procedures to assure continuing compliance with regulations and organization standards.
• Develops management systems for EHS functions.
• Providing support and guidance to leadership and employees on HR / HSE policies and procedures
• Communicates changes to employees, and leadership members related to HSE supporting HR as required.
• Provides direction to leadership in interpretation and application of employee-related policies, HSE policies, practices and procedures, as well as applicable laws, governmental regulations, and internal investigations to enhance consistency and maintain and improve the work environment of the facility
• Performs other duties as necessary in support of departmental goals.
• Comply with requirements as outlined in the company handbook and OHSA.
• Follows and comply with all Operational Procedures and policies as outlined in the Employee Handbook, Quality and Environment programs (i.e. IATF, ISO 14001)

• College/university degree and/or experience of 6+years of practical human resource experience with 2+years EHS experience
• Experience and knowledge in OSHA Health and safety regulatory programs such as elevated work, lock tag out (LOTO), machine guarding, industrial hygiene monitoring, confined space, risk assessment, etc.
• Experience working with different Fabrication products, processes or systems
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook

• Strong ability to lead, motivate, engage and influence others.
• Must be detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and ability to work in a team environment within a complex reporting matrix.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing and 5S concepts is preferred