Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability Manager

As a person, you’re a learner – an innate leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In the Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability Manager role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. 

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about and a leader in the development of Environmental, Health and Safety systems and standards to support achievement of our Huntsville Mill facility objectives. In this critical role, you’re responsible for monitoring compliance with established practices and analyzing problem areas of injuries, health impairment and environmental impact. These efforts ensure compliance with corporate and local legal regulation for environmental, health and safety.

Essential Accountabilities:

• Develop and support annual environmental, health, and safety strategies for the facility that are in line with the sector, to ensure that systems and standards are following and meet the company objectives.
• Ensure that the facility and its processes are in compliance with current and evolving legislation from the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Labour and the Occupational Health & Safety Act.
• Provide direction to 1 to 4 direct reports and/or consultants in the execution of the facility EHS strategy and on the development of mill wide EHS systems, as well as managing the internal review process of the same system.
• Collect, track, report and analyze the site’s key EHS performance data and metric, and initiate problem solving to improve those results.
• Complete mandatory local legislation environmental reports.
• Train and motivate people in health, safety, and environmental best practices and behaviors.
• Support or conduct investigations of all significant safety/environmental-related incidents and support employees/HR department on resolution as required.

SAFETY:

• Demonstrate commitment to safety through decision making and utilization of our 3 Safety Obligations: Take care of yourself, take care of others, and let others take care of you.

QUALITY:

• Actively contribute to KC quality goals by understanding our quality philosophy, making quality decisions, and escalating quality concerns and improvements.

PRODUCTIVITY:

• Actively contribute to goals and improvements.
• Think Customer: I anticipate my customer’s needs. I will be open to and adopt ideas wherever possible to ensure I am meeting customer needs. I will network with employees across the mill and KC organization.

OUR WAYS OF WORKING:

• Focus on Consumers - We keep the needs of customers and consumers at the center of our work.
• Play to Win - We aim high, measure our results and live our values because winning with integrity matters.
• Move Fast - We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection.
• Grow our People - We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth.

FLEXIBILITY:

• Willing to flex schedule to support personal and business objectives.
• Available for “call ins” to support business objectives.
• May require some travel.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Industrial environment (noise, dust, moving equipment).
• May include prolonged periods of standing and/or sitting, along with occasional bending, reaching, lifting, climbing, twisting, stooping, etc.

About You:

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• University or college degree (or specialized diploma in a health and safety, environmental discipline) or equivalent.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience and leading a similar team.                     
• Strong computer skills in MS Office Suite products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Business Management Programs.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.                                                                   
• Knowledge of Federal, Provincial, Health & Safety and Environmental Laws and Legislation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAP experience.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you brin your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.