Who We Are 

Do you want to work for a company named to the Best Places to Work in Rubber and Plastics?  Zeon Chemicals is the leading developer and supplier of innovative polymers, including synthetic elastomers and specialty chemicals and other selected products used in countless applications worldwide. We develop superior elastomers for the hottest parts of automotive engines, polymers for longer lasting laser printer rolls, synthetic rubber to survive oil wells' most aggressive fluids and cyclo-olefin plastics for today's advanced medical and electronic applications.   

Our team is outstanding at what they do, and we enjoy a great company culture and work environment!  This combination truly makes us a best place to work!

Purpose:

The Plant Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) Specialist is responsible for ensuring a safe, secure, and environmentally responsible workplace at the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Plant. This role includes overseeing occupational safety and health, emergency response, security, and environmental performance. The SHE Specialist will lead efforts to strengthen the plant's safety culture, promote continuous improvement, and support Zeon's SHE vision by encouraging strong management support and active employee involvement.

Job Functions/Accountabilities (Essential & Marginal):

- Communicates with interested parties regarding facility safety, health, security and environmental issues.

- Uphold safety, health, security, emergency response and environmental procedures, communicate directly and support the SHE department to ensure OSHA, EPA, DOT and DHS compliance at all times.

- Implement and support Corporate SHE programs at site. Assures policies and corresponding procedures are compliant with corporate policies and procedures and regulatory standards.

- Ensure a safe and environmentally sustainable operation of ZCLP Mississippi Plant facility by incorporating the proper procedures, equipment controls and training to meet or exceed all standards, laws, rules, and regulations.

- Develop proactive strategies in occupational safety management and lead implementation/achieve organizational acceptance of occupational safety programs, standards, management systems and procedures to ensure operational excellence and sustainability in the organization.

- Develop and execute programs to reduce and eliminate the risk of incidents of process, equipment, and systems-related injuries and illness, exposure and property loss.

- Collaborate with other functions and sites including but not limited to Research and Development, Engineering, and Operations to execute the safety strategy.

- Ensure OSHA-required safety training and environmental training programs meet compliance standard requirements and are conducted for all employees and contractors. Ensure training incorporates innovative methods to make training interesting, relevant and effective.

- Maintain and monitor MS Plant fire water, detection, alarm and extinguishing systems.

- Responds to on-site alarms, incidents, emergencies and accidents as necessary.

-Ensure immediate incident reporting protocol is followed per EPCRA, CERCLA, etc. and corporate policy.

- Provides guidance to sites regarding state and federal safety, emergency response and security standards and makes recommendations for program improvements.

- Participates in investigations of safety-, environmental- and security-related incidents to provide feedback on root cause and necessary corrective actions.

- Obtain, renew and comply with permits for all environmental media as required.

- Ensure all environmental compliance records are complete and organized and all reporting requirements are met and submitted in a timely manner.

- Conduct site vulnerability analyses and ensure MS Plant maintains compliance with Department of Homeland Security Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standard requirements.

- Conduct and/or coordinate on-site equipment inspections and work area and behavioral inspections to audit both physical conditions and safe work practices to insure the highest SHE standards are being maintained throughout the plant.

- Serve as Hazmat Technician, Incident Commander and first responder to emergencies as necessary.

- Participate in Corporate and site SHE integrated management system and compliance audits, report on findings, make recommendations for correction of issues and continuous improvement, and directly support the site's risk reduction efforts.

- Participate in PHA meetings, lead the hazard review meetings for small- to moderate-size plant projects, and revalidations of existing (older) processes and document the results in PHA Works report. Participate with Corporate in PHA/hazard evaluations of large projects (such as a new process).

- Report key performance indicators (most importantly, leading indicators) to track the SHE management system and work in cooperation with managers, engineers and others to keep process safety performance on track.

- Implement all fourteen (14) elements of the OSHA Process Safety Management standard and the additional requirements of EPA risk management plan rule. Identify gaps in any of the elements and implement sustainable solutions to address them.

- Participate in and ensure site management of change (MOC) and pre-start up safety review (PSSR) processes are completed as required.

- Provide hands-on support for closure of audit and PHA findings by developing and implementing solutions related to SHE risk and compliance gaps.

- Ensure compliance with federal (OSHA, EPA, DOT, DHS), and state (MS) air, water and waste regulations. Ensure compliance with POTW wastewater permit.

- Represent the Company in external regulatory and insurance inspections.

- Lead site security drills and make recommendations to improve security procedures, processes and systems.

Qualifications:

Education: 

• Bachelor's in industrial Safey, Chemical Engineering, or related fields.

Experience: 

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in health and safety within chemical manufacturing preferred.

Special Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of OSHA and EPA regulations, particularly Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Plan (RMP) requirements for chemical plants. Must exhibit strong SHE leadership and have excellent organizational skills. Must possess effective verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills in order to communicate with all levels within the organization. Knowledgeable of chemistry/chemical terminology. Hazmat training and Incident commander training required.
• Professional Safety certification preferred.
   
   
• Certified CPR Trainer preferred

Work Conditions:

Office environment/Chemical Manufacturing Plant environment. Extensive time will be spent in the plant environment. Plant office environment with significant exposure to Plant elements. Plant environment is a multi-acre site tat includes high noise levels, some exposure to fumes and dust, and at times working with hazardous materials. This position is expected to spend a significant portion of each shift walking through the plant up and down stairs and ladders as required to adequately direct activities in a large multi-acre facility.

Less than 10% domestic travel.

Benefits:

Zeon employees enjoy growth opportunities as well as a highly competitive salary and benefits program.  

Zeon Chemicals does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.