Environmental Engineer

Company: Allfast Fastening Systems, LLC

Primary Location: 15200 Don Julian Road, City of Industry, CA 91745 USA

Employment Type: Salaried | Full-Time

Function: Environmental, Health & Safety

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Main Duties & Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY:

Allfast Fastening Systems is an AS9100 and NADCAP certified manufacturing company. We are seeking a talented, hands on, self-starting professional to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment as an Environmental Engineer.

Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Competencies:
Implements, updates, and maintains company policies, procedures and program documents to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental and safety regulations.
Develops environmental and safety training programs and coordinates with Human Resources and Supervisory personnel to ensure timely and effective employee training.
Serves as the primary point of contact to environmental and safety regulatory agencies and prepares draft responses to agency inquiries as required.
Maintains all environmental permits to ensure active status and good standing with applicable regulatory agencies. Point person for all regulatory agencies.
Coordinates all environmental and safety programs and maintains applicable documents and records including permits, hazardous waste manifests, wastewater discharge reports, air emission reports and stormwater discharge reports.
Conducts periodic site assessments and inspections to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental and safety regulations.
Drives continual improvement in employee health and safety and promotes a culture of safety aware

Responsible for data collection to assist with accurate completion and timely submittal of environmental and safety monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting requirements such as hazardous materials and hazardous waste reports, stormwater inspections and sampling, and wastewater discharge sampling.
Conducts Job Hazard Analyses and other detailed investigations of potential safety and health hazards and makes recommendations for corrective actions. Provides technical guidance to Supervisory personnel conducting incident investigations.
Represents Allfast on the TriMas Aerospace Safety Council. Chairs and Co-Chairs the Allfast Safety Committee.
Manages the semi-monthly Toolbox Talk program wherein Supervisory personnel lead their employees in topical environmental and safety training discussions. Monitors Supervisory completion of scheduled Toolbox Talks to ensure 100% on-time completion rate.
Manages and oversees bi-weekly department safety inspections.
Lead workplace injury investigations and implement corrective actions.
Assists Human Resources personnel with management of Worker's Compensation claims.
Monitors performance to environmental and safety KPI metrics and provides periodic updates to management.
Monitors performance to annual environmental and safety budgets.
Other duties as assigned.

The pay scale for this position ranges from $100,00 to $113,000 annually.

Qualifications

OTHER COMPETENCIES:

Language Skills:
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Mathematical Skills:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability:
Ability to solve practical problems. Ability to perform complex duties where a high level of independent judgment and action are required. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Education and/or Experience:
Associate degree in a related field such as Chemistry, Biological Science or Environmental Science. Bachelor's degree in a related field such as Chemistry, Biological Science or Environmental Science preferred.

2 or more years of Environmental Health and Safety experience in a manufacturing environment and experience with Worker's Compensation case management. Experience with processes utilizing hazardous chemicals, including manufacturing and wastewater treatment processes. Experience with online portals for regulatory reporting such as CERS, RCRAInfo, SMARTS and IWFORS.

Basic knowledge of acid/base chemistry and the environmental and safety aspects associated with these hazardous materials.
Basic knowledge of typical safety programs in a manufacturing environment such as Injury and Illness Prevention Plan, Emergency Action Plan, Lockout Tagout, Hazard Communication, Ergonomic, Hearing Conservation, and Personal Protective Equipment.

Coordination of various environmental programs such as air quality, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, wastewater discharge and storm water discharge.

Ability to interact with people on the floor, good social skills, and able to work with diverse work groups.

Excellent organization and computer skills.

Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

Bilingual (read, write, and speak Spanish) preferred.

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to high places and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment can be moderate to very loud.