EHS Manager

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, GATX Corporation (NYSE: GATX) is an industry leader with 125+ years of success—success that is powered by our people. We are proud of our high-performance culture, hard-working and enthusiastic management team, and beautiful office space in the Willis Tower. 

At GATX, we hire the best and offer our employees a dynamic, energetic, collaborative environment to enable them to make an impact from day one. Enjoy the perks and benefits of a global company with the close-knit culture and community of a much smaller one. In the same way we strive to empower our customers to propel the world forward, we are dedicated to providing our people with the tools and resources they need to move forward in their careers. 

The purpose of the EHS Manager is to provide leadership over the EHS function to ensure a safe and secure environment for our employees, contractors, visitors and the surrounding community in cooperation with facility and corporate Operations and EHS objectives, targets and goals. To ensure compliance with all EHS regulatory and Responsible Care requirements. To understand and strategically reduce EHS risk to all stakeholders via a proactive and continuous improvement approach.

Key Activities:

• Lead and manage the maintenance of the Service Center’s EH&S program. Maintain strong presence on the shop floor and perform regular facility inspections to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and GATX policies and procedures (including CUPA, Title V, RWQCB, RMP/PSM, DTSC, SPCC, & RCMS). Ensure that all facility employees receive required EH&S training. Lead EHS continuous improvement / corrective actions. Manage incidents and injury claims whenever they occur at a multi-shift operation. Respond to requests (e.g., car cleaning, consultants request for information, etc.) timely and follow up on emails to keep projects on track. Influence a strong safety culture, proactively leading the “drive to zero”.
• Analyze and communicate the safety and environmental performance (incident rate, training, worker’s compensation, sustainability metrics) to all appropriate supervisors and managers. Establish and implement improvement plans based upon analysis to satisfy GATX Operations Group’s Initiatives. Seek out and implement opportunities to reduce Terre Haute environmental impact and improve sustainability efforts. Enter EHS metrics timely and ensure accuracy of reported data. Develop local management team and supervisors on environmental risks for additional support when needed.
• Control and communicate documents pertinent to the EHS systems to all affected personnel including but not limited to EHS policies and procedures and all regulatory and corporate reporting requirements. Complete required environmental regulatory reports and take ownership of recordkeeping storage and saving compliance records locally.
• Serve as the technical liaison for researching, analyzing, and communicating on EHS issues to regulatory bodies and GATX Commercial and Operations functions (including agencies listed in Section 1) Continue to understand permits and any associated calculations/methods for achieving compliance.

Scope of Work:

This position will interact with senior executives, functional leaders, service center managers, supervisors and operations employees at the facility.  Key functional groups and customers for this position are EHS, Quality, Operations, Inspections, Materials, NDE, Customer Service, Engineering, external regulatory agencies, and Maintenance Procurement among others.

This position will focus on research and analysis of environmental, health, safety, security, and sustainability related issues.  It is an independent, cross-functional key position that contributes significant knowledge and influence to the GATX Operations group in order to achieve our defined initiatives. The position must also be effective in working with and influencing shop employees. The position must also be effective in working directly and indirectly with regulatory and environmental consultants.

Education and/or Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree with concentration in EHS, Science, Engineering, Operations or related field, or associate’s degree with equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five (5) of experience in a production / fabrication environment with safety and environmental responsibility highly preferred.
• Experience in a union environment highly preferred
• Specific knowledge and experience with confined space entry, elevated work hazards, Title V air permitting, RCRA LQG requirements, Process Safety Management (PSM) and/or Risk Management Plans (RMP) are preferred
• Working knowledge of US environmental and safety regulations and Worker’s Compensation procedures.
• Responsible Care Management System (or similar ISO management system) and/or SafeStart experience preferred

Key Competencies and Other Requirements:

• Foster a respectful and inclusive work environment
• Training experience and capabilities
• Results driven
• Technical expertise
• Communication
• Organizational Impact
• Customer Focus (commercial customers & internal customers)
• Think strategically
• Ability to take initiative
• Minimal travel will be required within the US and Canada.
• This position is required to be present at the facility during hours of operation and frequently walk around the shop floor.
• Other physical requirements include but are not limited to:
  • Ability to perform outdoor work (in hot environment)
  • Ability to climb stairs and ladders
  • Ability to perform work at elevated heights
  • Ability to perform some heavy lifting

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.