HSE Manager

The HSE Manager monitors the day-to-day safe operations of the Vessels, Terminals, and Maintenance departments. They promote a culture of safety, health, and accident prevention, along with ensuring compliance with state and federal safety laws. This role is based out of Seattle and covers the Tacoma and Seattle area.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assists with the development and implementation of safety systems, programs, culture action plans, and activities to drive safety vision and mission and improve safety performance and reduce risk.
• Investigate employee injuries, including ILWU, ILA, and IAM workforce; work with operations management to identify root causes and corrective actions; maintain injury and incident statistics; analyze trends; and report key safety performance indicators to drive continuous improvement.
• Responsible for training management safety programs, initiatives, Business Continuity Plans (BCP), and Emergency Action Plans (EAP) in accordance with state and federal laws to ensure that they are addressing all aspects of safety during their daily duties.
• Conduct inspections, audits, and observations across departments for governance and compliance in partnership with the Environmental Department.
• Coach local leadership to ensure local regulatory health, safety, and environmental compliance is maintained.
• Responsible for meeting with all union locals and industry safety representatives monthly to discuss any safety concerns arising at any of our facilities.
• Attends monthly meetings with all member companies and union locals to discuss serious injuries and their possible prevention.
• Conduct periodic shop safety inspections and attend regularly scheduled shop safety committee meetings where applicable to reinforce safe work practices, expectations, and new safety initiatives.
• Support local management and partners with the Corporate Legal Department to mitigate OSHA citations and assist in general liability, longshore, and mechanic injury claims litigation.
• Oversee and conduct quarterly safety meetings and update Injury and Illness Prevention Plans.
• May be responsible for creating or assisting to ensure that safety statistics and metric/trend analysis for the location are communicated to executives.
• Represent the Company when interacting with regulatory agencies, e.g., State/Federal OSHA, US Coast Guard, Port Authorities, and Local Fire Departments in partnership on workplace safety.
• Work with facility managers to ensure proper signage, PPE, and controls are in place and effective.
• Work closely with SSA’s customers to improve safety on their vessels and facilities where applicable.
• Other duties as assigned.