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Manufacturing Safety Manager – RELOCATION PROVIDED
US-FL-Palmetto
At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.
We believe nothing is more important than safety - not production, not sales, not profits.
Reimagine What’s Possible
We have an immediate opening for an experienced Manufacturing Safety Manager at our newly expanded plant in Port Manatee, Florida.
This facility manufactures cryogenic equipment to support the company’s industrial gas and liquified natural gas (LNG) business. In addition to pressure vessels, distillation columns, piping skids and cold boxes it is also the world’s leading manufacturer of (LNG) heat exchangers. Each heat exchanger consists of coil wound tube bundles housed within an aluminum or stainless-steel pressure shell, all of which are assembled and welded by skilled employees at the plant.
This facility employs over 300 personnel made up of leadership and administration, welders, production, maintenance, and warehouse technicians. This plant operates 3-shifts Monday-Friday with additional shifts on weekends. The site also is home to a world-class Process Development Unit used for research and development.
The Safety Manager is accountable for providing direct field support on a broad array of activities to ensure employee/business compliance and adherence to corporate policies and standards. The Safety Manager will be responsible for developing detailed Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH&S) strategies, plans, and structure to foster a zero-injury culture.
This position reports to the Global EH&S organization. The successful candidate will work closely with the Site Manager, site leadership team, and the entire site workforce to lead the successful execution, monitoring, and oversight of safe manufacturing activities. The manager will partner with EH&S professionals within the region and at our other global manufacturing sites to identify and implement best practices.
The Safety Manager will reside at Port Manatee but is expected to lead in the development, execution, oversight, long-term sustainability and improvement of the safety programs across all NA discrete manufacturing sites.

Principal Accountabilities

• Advance a proactive safety culture across all manufacturing sites.
• Support site Environmental and Emergency programs including: ARP/RMP, Storm Water Protection Plan Environmental reporting, Hazardous waste handling & Shipment training, HAZCOM Lead.
• Provide support to the leadership and safety teams at our U.S. discrete manufacturing sites through best practice sharing and monthly/quarterly EHS performance reviews.
• Coordination and alignment of Manufacturing safety programs and work processes.
• Develop alignment between business groups, facilities, and R&D to ensure safety work processes are being maximized.
• Support site managers to ensure adequate safety training programs and compliance within the manufacturing facilities.
• Own, manage, and maintain local safety work processes, standards, and procedures, while ensuring adherence and alignment with Global Air Products Policies.
• Champion work processes which include the ability to compile safety metric information, analyze data, and utilize this information to develop continuous improvement plans and projects.
• Assess work practices, performance, and lead change as it relates to Behavioral Safety programs with the goal of creating a proactive safety culture.
• Direct support during unannounced regulatory inspections (e.g., OSHA) and participation in post incident or announced regulatory inspections at NA discrete manufacturing locations.
• Manage safety training for new hires and incumbent employees, perform safety training and coordinate with the learning/training team for the organization.
• Conduct routine safety inspections and meetings for all shifts.
• Leverage these regular reviews of safety data for goal setting and prioritization of improvement projects in the discrete manufacturing organization.
• Provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to manufacturing facilities on injury management, incident reporting and investigations, global EH&S Standards and safe work practices.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Courage to challenge status quo & drive to make decisions needed to achieve critical goals.
• Ability to provide personal leadership in delivering World Class Safety.
• Training and experience in incident investigation.
• A minimum of bachelor’s degree in EH&S or technical field.
• Strong passion and commitment to employee involvement, team building, diversity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrated experience in leveraging leading indicators to prevent injury and incidents.
• Continuous Improvement (CI) facilitator training a plus.
• Experience leading and influencing safety in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience and understanding of document management systems and management of change systems.
• Demonstrated project planning, execution, and organizational skills.

We are the world’s largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future.
At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is crucial, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visit About Air Products.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance and retirement plans. You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.). You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.
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North America

United States