Service EHS Manager

The Service EHS Manager position, in partnership with Service and Field management, is responsible for oversight and execution of the safety, health, environmental, regulatory compliance, and loss prevention programs within the service organization.  This role will have expertise in the automotive or heavy-duty repair and service industry to conduct audits, review reporting, provide advisement, and deliver training to ensure optimal levels of safety and regulatory compliance in FleetPride Service Centers.  

Essential Tasks

• Lead and drive a positive safety culture in the service locations.

• Follow up on all programs designed to create a safe and secure environment for customers and team members.

• Review and analyze reporting on safety and regulatory compliance to address root cause behaviors and develop plans to improve performance.

• Review all reported incidents and assist locations with the root cause analysis and corrective actions.

• Perform safety inspections and shortage control audits and evaluations. Prepare competent and accurate working documents to support audit findings.

• Review and audit activities and records to determine compliance with company policies and procedures, laws, governmental regulations, and permits.

• Partner with the Service Managers and Service leadership to ensure all audit action items and performance improvement plans are executed.

• Make recommendations to improve overall safety and operations. 

• Collaborate with service, field, and corporate teams to modify, improve, or develop effective EHS and loss prevention KPI’s and programs.

• Conduct and maintain Job Safety Analysis (JSA’s) and PPE risk assessments for all service roles.

• Ensure the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program is implemented and executed in all Service Centers.

• Participate as member of the Service Leadership team in the planning, formulating and implementation of the Service missions and goals.

• Advise the Service team on matters related to safety, hazmat, compliance, and loss prevention.

• Plan, prepare, and present awareness and training materials for management and technicians on topics related to safety, hazmat, compliance, and loss prevention.

• Work with Service Managers to ensure all EHS related training for employees is completed.

• Be the lead resource for emergency preparedness and response.

• Monitor and audit compliance with hazardous, industrial, and universal waste management.

• Ensure that all physical security measures are in place and operational (i.e., locks, alarms, CCTV, etc.).

• Initiate, conduct, and resolve confidential investigations involving company assets and employee dishonesty.

Skills

• Bias for Action:  Evaluate, act and communicate in timely manner.

• Decision Making:  Make timely, practical, and effective decisions using facts, data, and logic to support your reasoning.

• Monitoring:  Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself and other individuals and organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

• Influence:  The ability to produce positive outcomes through others by communicating, training, and coaching.

• Sound Judgment:  Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

• Conflict Management:  Ability to effectively resolve high stress situations by understanding all sides of a problem and working with others to develop the best solutions

• Communicating:  Deliver information to others in an effective and appropriate manner.

• Active Learning:  Understanding the implication of gathering new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

• Time Management:  Managing one's own time and the time of others to ensure all goals are met.

• Analysis:  Ability to use reporting and mathematics to identify and solve problems.

• Critical Thinking:  Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Coordination:  Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.

Attributes

• Integrity:  Acting with morals and ethics in all circumstances and maintaining utmost confidentiality

• Oral Expression:  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

• Oral Comprehension:  The ability to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

• Written Comprehension:  The ability to understand information and ideas presented in writing.

• Written Expression:  The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

• Originality:  The ability to come up with new and different ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

• Complex Problem Solving:  Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

• Problem Sensitivity: The ability to determine when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It involves recognizing there is a problem and resolving it.

• Deductive Reasoning:  The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

• Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasional lifting of items up to 50 pounds.

• Occasional use of stairs, ladders, and elevated platforms.

• Occasional use of vibrating tools, machinery, or equipment (PIT)

• Frequent reaching above shoulder height and below the waist

• Frequent sitting, squatting, and bending

• Constant walking and standing

Atmospheric/Environmental Conditions

The primary environments are vehicle service and warehouse areas which may require the use of personal protective equipment such as steel toed shoes, reflective clothing, and safety glasses.  The general environment can result in exposure to weather elements, temperature variations, lighting variations, high noise levels, chemicals, and industrial equipment.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.  Preferred Safety, Business, or related degree.

Professional Experience/Competencies

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in EHS in a leadership position.  Prefer multi-unit experience.

• Expertise in principles of accident prevention, safety, PPE, LOTO, and hazardous materials handling and storage in the automotive or heavy-duty repair/service industry.

• Knowledge of ANSI, OSHA, NFPA, DOT, and EPA regulations and standards.

• Experience with loss prevention and inventory control.

• Experience with exception reporting, financial management, and analysis of business data.

Computer Skills

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.  

• Karmak and AS-400 experience preferred.

Certifications/Licenses

• Valid drivers’ license with clean driving record

• CSP, GSP, CIH, or ASC preferred

• LPC, CFI, or CFE preferred

Travel

• Ability to travel 75% of the time is required.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.