EHS Business Partner

United Malt is the fourth largest commercial maltster in the world, delivering high-quality malt to brewers and distillers across the globe. Our malt is blended into some of your favourite industry-leading beverages and local craft brews.

Our family of brands include Bairds Malting, Barrett Burston Malting, Brewers Select, Canada Malting Company, Country Malt Group, Cryer Malt and Great Western Malting. We produce approximately 1.25 million tonnes per annum of capacity across 12 processing plants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. We also operate an international distribution business, which provides a full service offering for craft brewers and distillers, including malt, hops, yeast, adjuncts and related products.

Our more than 900 employees are proud of the rich heritage of our family of brands and are committed to living our company values of safety, quality, integrity and passion. We celebrate the diversity of our people and together strive to create an environment where all employees are safe, welcomed and have a sense of belonging

**Safety - Passion - Quality - Integrity**

**POSITION SCOPE**

The EHS Business Partner will play a strategic and vital role in the safety, sustainability, and success of our business. Through partnerships across the organization, this person will drive environmental, health, and safety leadership within United Malt. This partnership will aid in achieving our sustainable Safe for Life goals while aligning to our Malt Values within the framework of United Malt EHS Plan, policies, procedures, and the North America EHS Process.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provide comprehensive partnership and advice to senior management on Environmental, Health and Safety matters, ensuring full compliance with North American legislation and company policies.
- Maintain and develop the necessary EHS standards to ensure the environmental, health and safety of company personnel, visitors and contractors.
- Ensure that all incidents are investigated and reported in compliance with current company procedures; report significant incidents to the Environmental, Health and Safety Executive line with strict adherence to reporting requirements.
- Develop, implement, and ensure compliance with United Malt’s EHS policies, procedures, and reporting requirements across North America.
- Streamline EHS processes through identifying and addressing gaps between procedures and practices, then provide feedback to leaders on required actions.
- Partner with the other NA EHS staff to implement and maintain ISO 14001 & ISO-45001 (OHSAS-18001), Management System.
- Work with the other NA EHS Business Partners, NA EHS Manager and Global EHS, to ensure effective due diligence documentation is developed and maintained.
- Coordinate with the NA and international Malt EHS Business Partners to ensure a uniform approach to EHS success, while conforming to legal, industry, and company regulations and standards.
- Ensure the Eco-line EHS reporting system is maintained and fully utilized within North America.
- Facilitate the development of people’s EHS capabilities at all levels of the organization through coaching and guidance.
- Corroborate the company’s diversity strategies and participate with regional or global teams to develop EHS initiatives.
- Responsible for the timely execution of North American environment projects such as site permits, Environmental Site Assessments, Environmental Audits, site clean-up actions, sustainability, environmental (GHG, stormwater, carbon footprint, etc) improvement/reporting projects.
- Ensure accuracy in collection and reporting of data.
- Serve as the primary backup for the EHS Manager North America and other North American EHS Business Partners.

**SKILLS & ABILITIES**
- Strong and proven background with developing and implementing safety compliance programs.
- Proven safety and environmental auditing experience.
- Ability to build constructive working relationships with local, State/Provincial, and Federal regulators, as well as with remote site management teams and senior management.
- Proven ability to work with Operations and Engineering teams to identify, develop and implement sustainability improvement projects that impact environmental footprint and manufacturing costs.
- Demonstrated success developing effective outcomes with local, State/Provincial and Federal agencies.
- Computer proficiency, particularly with MS Office programs and flow charts. Experience with Eco-online a plus.
- Analytical and investigative skills especially as applied to risks, hazards, and incident identification.
- Ability to interpret legal requirements and standards and develop processes that reflect the company’s practices.
- Current/valid passport; current driver’s license with own transportation and the ability to rent a car for business purposes.
- Ability and willingness to regularly travel to other sites (domestic and international including Ca