Weisiger Group
- Full Time
Description
Join the Weisiger Group Team
As a family-owned company under our fourth generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.
Since 1926, we’ve supported the strength of our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce, and by funding programs that advance social and economic vitality. Being around for nearly 100 years means we change and pivot to capture opportunities and avoid challenges. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that’s built to last.
We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential.
Join a leading solutions provider and be a part of a group of highly skilled technicians, sales and support team members who exist to serve as a trusted partner to our customers, communities, and fellow employees.
Summary
Do you want to join a high-growth organization and drive the prevention of injury and illness through continued improvement of occupational safety and health performance? Come join our team. Weisiger Group is searching for a Manager of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) for our Carolina Cat division to implement and maintain EHS programs, and drive injury and vehicular incident reduction, regulatory compliance, and a positive safety culture. At Weisiger Group, we believe that maintaining a healthy and safe working environment is not only “the right thing to do” for our employees, business partners, and communities, it is an essential element in providing superior levels of productivity and efficiency, and overall shareholder value.
As Manager EHS, you will be a leader of EHS functions within our Carolina Cat division and be responsible for improving the health and safety performance of assigned Carolina Cat branches, and for technicians who travel to and serve our customers at their locations. Each day you will partner with Carolina Cat leadership and work with branch and mobile technicians that service construction equipment and similar types of industrial vehicles and equipment. You will work closely with partners in Operations, Fleet, Continuous Improvement, Human Resources, and Legal to further our EHS program. This position requires a strategic approach to drive EHS continuous improvement, program scalability, and sustainability. You will use data to evaluate trends related to leading and lagging indicators to help your partners focus on safety, and project management techniques to drive performance improvement through safety incident prevention, investigation, and mitigation.
Essential Functions
- Serve as EHS regulatory and incident reduction subject matter expert and representative for Carolina Cat, a division of Weisiger Group
- Partner with Carolina Cat leaders and support teams to identify and prioritize EHS continuous improvement initiatives relating to risk reduction, incident reduction, cost reduction, and regulatory compliance
- Identify emerging EHS compliance and incident risk trends and drive the implementation of existing policies and practices, or create new initiatives as needed to mitigate risks
- Drive change management and communications to ensure efficient and effective EHS program implementation alignment with stakeholders
- Leverage stakeholder feedback to inform and align EHS support initiatives with the needs of Carolina Cat
- Act as a self-motivated creative problem-solver, listen, adapt, simplify, and lead teams through complex situations to implement simplified issue-resolution actions
- Provide proactive oversight of EHS policy implementation through behavioral and regulatory compliance assessments and Gemba walks
- Drive EHS improvement actions to closure utilizing project management techniques, including clear improvement area identification, ownership, closure tracking, and post-closure validation
- Develop employee training and communication tools and administer coaching and formal training
- Drive incident investigation and corrective action process effectiveness
- Assist with EHS data analysis and trend report generation
- Assist with workers’ compensation claim reporting and management actions
- Perform new location startup safety management system implementation activities
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety or related field and a minimum of 7 years of industry experience practicing occupational safety and health management. Vehicle mechanical or industrial service and DOT transportation compliance focus is preferred.
- Certified Safety Professional, OSHA Certified Instructor, or other occupational safety certifications preferred
- Advanced project management, change management, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement experience
- Advanced behavior-based safety program implementation and sustainment experience
- General knowledge of worker’s compensation laws and general claims management practices
- Ability to effectively communicate (verbal, written, procedural, training, etc.) throughout all levels of the organization based on work-product purpose and the needs of the audience
- Ability to consistently travel approximately 30% – 40% to regional branch locations and be able to travel on short notice based on business needs.
- Proficiency with modern Microsoft Windows Office software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook email
- Exhibit professional presence and exercise mature judgment when partnering and communicating with employees, management, and customers
- Ability to establish and maintain trust with organizational partners through effective collaboration, negotiation, conflict resolution, and long-term partnership-building
Workplace Requirements
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull, and /or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this Job, depending on the branch and/or field location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment, elevated or uneven walking/working surfaces, noise, regulated atmospheric conditions (i.e. fumes or airborne particles); outside weather conditions, and chemicals.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
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EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals – including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities – are encouraged to apply.
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