Senior EHS Specialist

Company

• Joy Global brings advanced equipment, systems and direct services to the global mining industry. With its focus solely on mining, Joy Global designs, manufactures, distributes and services extensive product lines of highly reliable P&H surface mining equipment and JOY underground mining machinery used to cut, crush, load and convey coal and industrial minerals worldwide. Customers receive a superior experience through direct relationships with Joy Global’s support people, and through its services located close to the mines. Joy Global's products and related services are used extensively for the mining of coal, copper, iron, gold and other mineral resources and the company employs 14,000 people worldwide.
• Joy Global is continuously working to make mining operations safer and more productive. With Joy Global’s innovative equipment and life-cycle services, mine operators are able to consistently achieve the lowest cost per unit of production
• over the life of the equipment. Joy Global Inc. offers excellent benefits, a continual focus on training and development and a financially sound company in a growing industry.  We are currently looking to add a Sr. Environmental Health and Safety Specialist to our Longview, TX location.

Responsibilities:

• Provide safety leadership to an assigned factory in Longview manufacturing operations
• Respond to and resolve internal customer safety system, regulatory and technical issues
• Coordinate site safety program development and implementation
• Develops, implements and maintains measurement and assessment methodologies to evaluate progress, performance and compliance
• Manage the incident investigation process
• Ensure all significant and recordable safety incidents are documented and communicated in a timely fashion
• Develops and manages an industrial hygiene program for compliance to all applicable air and noise exposure regulations
• Champion behavioral-based safety initiatives
• Participates in Workers’ Compensation case management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Safety and Occupational Health
• 5+ years mining, heavy equipment construction, or project site experience
• Demonstrated, effective interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations
• Ability to travel 10-20%
• Experience assessing risk, developing risk mitigation controls, processes and procedures, and systems measurement
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) highly desired