EHS Auditor

Ashland Inc.

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better?

Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for an EHS Auditor to join our corporate EHS Team. The EHS Auditor can be located at one of our sites or remotely based.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Environmental, Health and Safety function.

The key responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following :

The Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Auditor plans and conducts EHS compliance, management system and Process Safety Management audits and is in on-going communications with management at all levels to report and follow-up on audit results.

The EHS Auditor is responsible for driving audit excellence through the following key accountabilities :

• Proactively developing and maintaining a broad knowledge of current and emerging country and local EHS regulatory requirements affecting Company operations
• Providing detailed regulatory interpretation of complex laws and regulations in a manner that delivers accurate and efficient feedback and guidance to leadership.
• Demonstrating a breadth and depth of understanding of multiple EHS subject areas.
• Appling subject matter expertise and excellent communication skills to independently and objectively helping stakeholders identify and meet EHS compliance and management system requirements.
• Facilitating maintenance of audit protocols and effectively applying protocols during fieldwork.
• Planning, participating, and leading site audits that include experienced subject matter experts from other parts of the organization and / or external contractors.
• Managing multiple complex projects within scope, budget, and schedule expectations and ensuring that project deliverables meet Ashland’s evidence and quality standards with minimal oversight.
• Working across multiple technical disciplines and management levels.
• Collaborating with peers and leadership to identify and implement processes and tools that enhance the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of EHS audit work.
• Strong and effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Leading and influencing teams in a matrix organization.
• Participating in special EHS projects that require technical knowledge and skills.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following :

• BS or BA degree in engineering, environmental science, safety, occupational safety or related major
• A minimum of three years of EHS experience in a manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical, or refinery setting.
• Experience in managing EHS programs at the facility, regional, or corporate level.
• Natural attention to details.
• Professional certification (e.g. CPEA, PE, REM, CHMM, CSP, CIH, or other equivalent certification) or ability to obtain within 12 - 24 months.
• Strong working knowledge of global EHS regulations, and general consensus standards.
• Experience with implementing or auditing ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 and other relevant management system requirements;

prefer experience with RC14001.

• Familiarity with continuous improvement processes, tools, and techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Prior regulatory compliance and management system audit fieldwork experience, including international, preferred.
• Proficiency in working with a variety of information systems and technologies.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, including international travel.

The following skills are preferred :

• Six Sigma or Lean certification
• Data organization, manipulation, trending, and graphing
• External ISO certification processes
• Credentialed CPEA
• Multilingual
11 days ago