Hse Regional Manager

**Job Description**:
**Position Summary**:
**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Provides leadership, strategy and tactics to enable continuous improvement in occupational health, safety and environmental matters.
- Recommends safety and environmental improvement KPIs for plant use and assesses trend information for problem‐solving and decision‐making.
- Advises the front‐line organization on HSE matters and is responsible for providing tools and training to allow the front‐line organization to own and be responsible for the safety of their people.
- Partners with operations to ensure job hazard & risk assessments (JHRA) are conducted for both routine and non‐routine work and monitors that identified hazards are managed by operations.
- Conducts assessments to determine legal and company standards gaps and improvement needs for HSE.
- Manages and documents the interface with regulatory authorities, both verbal and written.
- Provides technical training materials for occupational health, safety and environmental topics and ensures that regulatory‐required training is conducted and documented.
- Maintains plant procedures, standards and guidelines for HSE topics and works with plant staff to ensure that roles and responsibilities are understood and accepted.
- Develops plant‐wide competency in incident investigation and leads cross‐functional (operations, maintenance, engineering, etc.) investigation teams.
- Reviews and approves plant capital projects for HSE considerations; prepares the budget and justification for HSE‐related capital investments
- Recommends and manages HSE operating budget.
- Maintains plant HSE management systems and documentation (environmental management, safety & health management, energy management) and serves as the coordinator for implementation and compliance.
- Participates in Continuous Improvement events.
- Ensures required HSE data (incident information, environmental metrics, etc.) is entered in corporate databases in a timely manner.
- Manages the effective read‐across for incidents occurring at other locations.
- Works with regional HSE team and local HR team to continuously develop HSE knowledge, skills and capabilities for both self and the local organization.
- Serves as a role model for safe personal practices.
- Act as local champion for regional or global HSE initiatives.
- May, on occasion, be required to perform duties other than those specified in this description