Sr Environmental Health & Safety Program Manager

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Columbia Sportswear Company's People Strategy & Operations team plays an important role in partnering with the business and management to design and deploy programs that mitigate risk, while effectively responding to ongoing changes and shifts in dynamics.

The Sr Environmental Health and Safety Program Manager plays a leading role in Columbia's efforts to create, manage, and implement safe workplace protocols for Columbia's retail stores and corporate offices for all Columbia Sportswear Company brands. This role will leverage knowledge of environmental compliance and workplace health and safety to create, train and lead program development to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local requirements governing environmental protection and occupational safety and health standards.

HOWYOU'LLMAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Develop a strategy for the evolution and implementation of a health and safety culture and standards for Retail Stores and corporate/brand headquarter offices.

• Provide technical expertise and leadership to support operational compliance with governmental safety standards.

• Develop and write regulatory safety programs and procedures to ensure compliance with current occupational safety regulations and other applicable environmental, health, or safety legislation impacting operations. Follow up with the implementation of audit processes and procedures to measure compliance.

• Implement and integrate written safety programs into the operational fabric of the business. Create, facilitate, and support safety training and orientations to maintain compliance with standards and improve the safety and health of employees.

• Develop and disseminate key safety performance metrics to track and monitor the overall health of the company's safety program.

• Develop and implement location inspection and risk assessment tools to help identify safety, health, and environmental risks. Work with locations to identify and implement corrective actions.

• Monitor environmental compliance and assure timely internal and external reporting.

• Manage waste and hazardous materials and ensure regulatory compliant disposal where necessary.

YOU ARE

• Proactive, information seeking, with the ability to take complexed governmental standards and digest them into actional programs for managers, supervisors, and employees

• A partner, building strong working relationships across the organization to help support environmental health and safety efforts

• Familiar with Windows-based platforms and have the computer and data management skills to effectively manage those systems to communicate, create reports, build written programs, and create training tools

• An analyst to your core, driven to probe complex problems quantitatively and qualitatively

• Always accountable, working independently with limited direction and a high degree of professionalism

YOUHAVE

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety and Health, Environmental Safety, or related field required

• 4+ years of experience engaged in safety management or related a function

• Proven experience working and leading large scale projects and programs with cross-functional teams

• Experience developing and delivering presentations on environmental health and safety compliance topics to all levels of management and employees

• A proven track record of work, consistently meeting elevated standards and deadlines

• A Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification or equivalent is desired

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.