Regional Safety and PSM Leader Foam

A Regional Safety Leader provides leadership, coaching, and safety technical expertise for the Insulation business plus strategic guidance and operational support to all assigned sites.  Successful leaders in this role will be highly motivated self-starters who can partner with the EHS Leadership Team, Operations Directors, Business Segment Leaders, and Plant Teams to set EHS strategy and balance tactical execution against an overall strategic plan. The Regional Safety Leader must have proven experience motivating and interacting with front-line employees, aligning, and engaging leaders, verifying hazard controls, recognizing, and reducing risk, and building talent. Facilities will range in size, complexity, and maturity. Regional Safety Leaders must be competent in leading high-performing safety teams as well as elevating the performance and skills of high-touch, high-need sites. There is flexibility of primary work locatoin to include: Insulation foam manufacturing sites in the US or Canada and resident offices in the US. 

Reports to:  Global EHS Director, Insulation Operations

Span of Control:  Owens Corning Foam plants, including:  Tallmadge, OH; Gresham, OR: Rockford, IL; Cortland, IL; Russellville, AR; and Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada.  Additionally, will provide safety support for the foam commercial, technical, and functional teams, including safety support for the Tallmadge R&D facility. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop and Execute Insulation Safety Strategy and Action Plans

Regional Safety Leaders are primarily responsible for assessing the controls, programs, and risks for each site under their responsibility. Once the initial assessment is complete for each site (and across the network), data-driven gap analyses, prioritized action plans, and resource balancing are expected. The successful Regional Safety Leader will collaborate with other leaders within Insulation to communicate, enable, and fulfill the Safety Action Plans.    

• Use TPM methodologies to drive to Zero Injuries and zero PSM incidents.  Focus all leaders and safety team on eliminating waste and focusing on critical path activities that will deliver the results required to meet Safety Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Key Activity Indicators (KAI), including:  Recordable Incidence Rates (RIR), SIF Incidents, PSM Incidents, SIF standards execution, Risk Profile reduction, Safety Management System effectiveness and Safety Culture Maturity Scores.
• Partner with Business Segment and Plant teams to establish Safety and PSM compliance strategy and action plans, and to accelerate Safer Together safety culture maturity
• Engage our people in planning, deploying, and executing against a careful, forward-looking safety plan.

Verify Hazard Controls and Manage Risk

Regional Safety Leaders will drive operational excellence by extensive use of hands-on verification of the mechanisms, procedures, systems, and activities used to control employee interaction with hazards. The Regional Safety Leader will provide technical guidance and support to increase the skills and effectiveness of both hourly and salaried leaders in hazard identification and risk management techniques.

• Eliminate the potential for SIF injuries, reduce the severity and potential for employee injuries, and build controls to effectively manage risk
• Verify hazard controls and risk reduction strategies at each site
• Direct resources to achieve maximum short-term results while supporting the long-term strategy and vision
• Review gap closure plans (SIF and Foundations assessments) and manage timelines and outcomes
• Provide technical support and leadership around the development of Safety standards

Oversee Compliance with Process Safety Management Requirements

The Regional Safety Leader is primarily responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance with all Process Safety Management requirements, as applicable to each site under their responsibility.  This includes:

• Support plants to comply with applicable PSM rules
• Support plants to complete PSM legal requirement reviews, ensuring plants have a complete understanding of all PSM requirements and methods of verification, and that those requirements are built into site management systems
• Leads and participates in process safety hazard analysis and operability studies (PHA/HAZOP) for applicable processes and proposed changes at plants under their responsibility.
• Conducts technical reviews and provides input on potential impacts of process changes, capital projects, and new product development.
• Conducts internal or supports external RMP/PSM audits, and ensures plants are effectively addressing deficiencies identified in RMP/PSM audits
• Supports plants with closure of findings from internal and external audits and agency inspections.

Talent Development

Regional Safety Leaders are functional leaders of safety professionals throughout the network. This role, in collaboration with the Plant Leaders, will manage the growth and development plans for each safety professional, provide career guidance and coaching.  These leaders will constantly assess and elevate the overall technical strength of safety professionals within Insulation.

• Lead efforts in assigned facilities to engage hourly employees in the safety process. Provide guidance to sites to elevate employee ownership, increase the effectiveness of safety committees, and create avenues of communication and feedback.
• Serve as a coach and expert resource to the plant leaders, safety leaders and NLT’s on safety, communications and programs related to EH&S.
• Provide technical and professional guidance on growth and development plans for each safety team member in assigned sites.
• Coach and mentor early-career safety professionals and development candidates
• Conduct or take part in semi-annual performance reviews with safety leaders in assigned locations
• Collaborate with Plant leaders and Human Resource professionals to accelerate performance of safety leaders and team members to contribute to the overall strategy and specific critical outcomes for the business.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree required (occupational safety, industrial hygiene, engineering, science or equivalent preferred)
• 5 years of progressive manufacturing safety experience managing safety and PSM programs
• Travel:  40-50% (could be more initially)

 PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Professional certification preferred (CSP, CIH, etc.)
• Experience implementing Process Safety Management (PSM) programs, including Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) development, Hazard & Operability Reviews (HAZOP) and PSM auditing
• Experience implementing and influencing a strong safety culture, in a matrix & multi-site environment
• Demonstrated success in coaching and leading teams
• Managing and delivering results through projects and initiatives
• Impactful experience in a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) environment, including active participation as member of EHS Pillar team.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Strong working knowledge of health, safety, and industrial hygiene compliance
• Ability to identify hazards, critical process, and system needs and implement appropriate action plans
• Adept at developing and delivering safety training

• Ability to motivate and inspire others at all levels of the organization
• Ability to initiate and lead cross-functional teams and management / employee committees to achieve objectives
• Agent of change – create momentum for new initiatives while understanding the many different perspectives in the plant; effectively gain support across the organization as needed
• Ability to establish agreement and consensus with management
• Ability to prove result-oriented leadership and entrepreneurship
• Intellectually strong, able to combine analytical reasoning and creativity and good judgment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities or projects at one time
• Accessible, open-minded, and able to work well with others; handle resistance or conflict in a productive way
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to translate strategy into actionable operating plans
• Strong self-awareness of one’s strengths and development opportunities; works to continuously improve

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About Owens Corning

Owens Corning is a residential and commercial building products leader committed to building a sustainable future through material innovation. Our products provide durable, sustainable, energy-efficient solutions that leverage our unique capabilities and market-leading positions to help our customers win and grow. We are global in scope, human in scale with more than 25,000 employees in 31 countries dedicated to generating value for our customers and shareholders and making a difference in the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1938 and based in Toledo, Ohio, USA, Owens Corning posted 2024 sales of $11.0 billion. For more information, visit www.owenscorning.com. 

Owens Corning is an equal opportunity employer.