Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Environmental Health & Safety Teams ensure and monitor safety in the workplace. This includes the application and communication of health, safety and hazardous material standards, procedures and practices consistent with TE, environmental and government regulations.

Please note: This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required prior to releasing its technologies to the candidate. If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion, or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.

Responsibilities

• Ensures and monitors safety in the workplace including the application and communication of health, safety and hazardous material standards, procedures, and practices consistent with established company, environmental and government regulations.
• Support safety in the workplace including the application and communication of health, safety and hazardous material standards, procedures, and practices consistent with an established company, environmental and government regulations.
• Implement, maintain, and monitor an EHS management system for the organization that meets the TE Safety Assessment for Effectiveness (SAFE) requirements, implements TE environmental sustainability programs, ensures compliance with all relevant regulations, TE policies, and TE specifications and provides for continuous improvement in EH&S performance.
• Ensure TE safety initiatives required by the TEOA Safety Tool are deployed for the organization, including Behavior Based Safety (BBS), ergonomics programs, risk assessment, EHS training, machine guarding and employee engagement.
• Assess, evaluate, quantify, and prioritize EHS risks for the organization and develop action plans for ensuring all significant risks are controlled and managed as part of the operational controls defined within the EHS management system and TEOA processes and procedures.
• Chair the cross functional Safety Committee and coordinate the observations to eliminate safety issues.
• Create and deliver training programs to ensure those involved in maintaining the organization’s EHS programs are aware of their responsibilities and how to discharge them. Provide training for all employees in support of achieving 100% engagement in EHS.
• Enforce organizational EHS metrics that drive improvement in EHS performance, e. g. near hit reporting, behavioral safety scorecards, ergonomic assessment, risk assessment data, environmental permit data, hazard reporting, etc.
• Participate in risk assessments, advising risk assessment teams on the assessment process; quantification of risks; prioritizing risks for action and effective risk control measures. This includes Job Safety Analysis (JSA).
• Engage with leadership and employees to drive EHS programs and performance improvements.
• Drive waste, water, and energy reduction opportunities to achieve sustainability goals for the site

What your background should look like:

• Minimum 2+years of EH&S experience required
• Experience in a technical, engineering or manufacturing role preferred
• Strong demonstrated communication, negotiation, influencing, collaboration and team-building skills preferred
• Demonstrated ability in conducting audits and inspections of all aspects of EHS throughout a Site
• Optional: University degree or equivalent level of qualification in safety, health, or an environmental discipline
• Optional: If a degree is in a related technical or engineering field, but not specific to EHS, then a recognized post graduate qualification (e. g. Master s Degree, etc.) in an environmental or health and safety discipline is required.

Competencies