EHS Specialist

Joplin, MO, US, 64804

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business, and as an employee team.

At Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

Purpose

This position is responsible for providing tactical support to execute and implement the EHS management system, including activities to ensure employee engagement and education, regulatory compliance, hazard identification and control for the assigned Operations scope. The incumbent will be responsible for leading the continuous development of the health and safety culture and positively impacting employee engagement within the assigned scope, through collaboration with local leadership and with the surrounding EHS Team. The incumbent is responsible to contribute and support implementing the occupational EHS management system consisting of policies, procedures, standards, programs, providing training, tools and techniques with the assigned Operations scope.

This position will be responsible for supporting improvements in our EHS risk assessment and risk mitigation process through collaboration with local leadership. The incumbent should have a foundational knowledge of occupational health, safety and environmental regulations and management systems and work with other internal stakeholders to ensure proper functionality and use of such programs with a view on compliance and a commitment to an illness and injury-free workplace.

Accountabilities

• Lead ground-level collaboration with assigned Operations scope for buy-in, understanding, implementation of Liberty EHS policies, procedures, programs and compliance with regulatory requirements, EHS initiatives, critical tasks, and potential areas of opportunity to operationalize safety within local operating procedures and work practices, job-specific, modality-specific, etc.

• Coordinate and support hazard identification, risk assessments, JHA, job briefing/planning activities through regular ongoing field crew visits to support proactive observations, coaching and exchange of ideas for safe work practices.

• Maintain a level of knowledge of current and emerging legislation, regulations and trends related to EHS.

• Support the updating of Liberty EHS standards, policies and procedures as needed.

• Support coordination and response for planned and unplanned EHS regulatory events such as but not limited to: requests for information, inspections, complaints, and correspondence from governing bodies (i.e. OSHA, PUC, etc.) as assigned.

• Support ongoing monitoring of EHS compliance across the assigned scope and work in collaboration with the business units to resolve deficiencies, prioritize Operations and capital spending related to EHS compliance.

• Record, track, trend and develop action plans for leading and lagging environment, health and safety indicators.

• Support development and distribution of EHS communications specific and applicable to the scope/work group supported (i.e. Flash Reports, Safety Bulletins).

• Support and actively participate in assigned scope EHS committees (responsibility may vary depending on representation and existing processes) Operational Excellence Committees, Tool/PPE Committees, etc.

• Perform and support field/task, facility/site, equipment inspections and calibrations as required.

• Actively participate and support Emergency and Storm Response Efforts for Mutual Aid, Unplanned Events, Avalanche/Wildfire Events, Crisis Management, etc.

• Triage and manage employee injury and illness incidents and claims in collaboration with employees, people leaders, HR, and worker's compensation third party representatives.

• Facilitate root cause analysis and investigation of all incidents in the assigned scope, in collaboration with local leadership.

• Support and actively participate with the EHS Team on projects.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a University – Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

• 3-5 years of experience in similar role.

• Broader knowledge of theory and principles within occupational health and safety and environmental professional discipline or advanced knowledge of specific technical/operational practice including but not limited to Incident Investigation, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Programs, Workplace Inspections, Procedure Compilation, etc.

• Understanding of and experience working in the Utility Sector, specifically Transmission and Distribution is an asset.

• Organizational and multi-tasking skills.

• Interpersonal skills including the ability to work and communicate with people at all levels of the organization.

• Excellent computer skills (Gensuite, Adobe Acrobat, Publisher, Microsoft Suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) [Note: Applications such as ISN, Gensuite, MSDS On-Line will be learned on the job].

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a growing renewable energy and utility company with over $15 billion of assets across North America and internationally.

For more than 30 years, Algonquin has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to delivering clean energy and water solutions. Our rapid growth has led both our regulated utility services and renewable energy business groups into different geographies and commodities, but our purpose remains unchanged – Sustaining Energy and Water for Life.

Through our operating business (Liberty), we provide regulated electricity, water, and natural gas utility services to over 1 million customer connections, primarily in North America. And, our growing portfolio of clean, renewable wind, solar, hydro and thermal power generation facilities represent over 3 GW of renewable generation capacity in operation and under construction.

With our robust, diversified, and growing presence in communities across North America and internationally, we are continually demonstrating our “Think Global, Act Local” business model.

What we offer

Company funded Pension program

401k with Company match

Full insurance benefits (health/dental/vision/life)

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

Share purchase/match plan

Defined Contribution savings plan

Top Talent Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not certain you meet the all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to further investigate the opportunity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person’s unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents. Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all of our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.