Safety and Ecology Officer

Supervise technical safety support activities ensuring that the organization complies with safety regulations and standards, such as inspecting workplace environments and equipment to identify potential hazards and risks, developing strategies to minimize or eliminate them, investigating and reporting accidents or injuries and work with management to identify and implement corrective actions, and conducting training sessions for employees to ensure they understand and follow safety protocols. Contribute to the creation of safety policies and procedures and implement these.

• Leads efforts for effective and sustainable EHS systems, programs, and processes. 
• Continue to drive a culture where safety is embedded as a core value for the organization.
• Manages and oversees compliance with federal, state, and local EHS regulations and IFF EHS standard regionally.
• Collaborates with business functional groups to assure that employee safety and compliance with EHS regulations are supported.
• Recommends EHS goals and objectives and support the organization in the implementation of EHS goals and objectives.
• Ensures investigation of all EHS related incidents to drive to root cause and identify actions to prevent recurrence.
• Establishes, performs, and reports metrics pertinent to EHS activities
• Manages EHS job functions for duties such as job safety analyses/risk assessments, EHS training, workplace incident analyses, industrial hygiene evaluations, EHS inspections, environmental regulatory reporting, permit negotiation, data collection / analysis and internal audits.
• Leads ergonomic risk assessments and makes appropriate recommendations. 
• Collaborates with facility functional groups for the evaluation of new materials to ensure compliance in EHS requirements and facility procedures.
• Conducts EHS reviews for new product development, facility modification, product manufacturing modifications, and new equipment/machinery installations.  
• Selects and applies EHS principles, theories, and concepts and uses independent judgment to develop and design practical solutions to EHS issues. 
• Directs emergency and spill response plans, disaster preparedness plans, materials and equipment, as well as the facility emergency response team to ensure appropriate training, practices drills, and equipment are in a ready state.  
• Manages the monitoring of employee exposure to chemical and other toxic substances and physical hazards, including Industrial Hygiene (IH) sampling and coordinating the activities with Industrial Hygienists, and other safety consultants as required.
• Must communicate EHS team expectations and give frequent and appropriate feedback to their EHS team and ensure they are executing to the core competencies of an IFF EHS Professional. This individual must also demonstrate the ability to judge and assess EHS talent and select appropriate bench strength to current and future business needs.
• Other duties as assigned by management.
• Every employee is expected to participate in education/training in IFF’s environmental commitments and then actively apply this to job-related and job-specific roles and responsibilities. 
• Management will support and facilitate education, training, and action within their teams to effectively and adequately implement environmental policies, procedures and practices, as well as promote continual improvement consistent with environmental objectives.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.

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