Industrial Risk Manager

Location: Valdosta, GA

Position Overview

The Industrial Risk Manager establishes, maintains, and oversees the site's comprehensive risk management framework. This role drives the integrity management program, focusing on safety-critical barrier management. By collaborating across departments, the manager ensures all operational activities prioritize safety, mitigate operational hazards, and strictly comply with corporate and government regulations.

Key Responsibilities

🔬 Risk Analysis & Mitigation

• Mitigate Major Hazards: Identify, assess, and control major operational risks, specifically fire, explosion, pollution, and toxicity.
• Deploy Safety Barriers: Design and execute the industrial risk management program, with a primary focus on critical safety barriers.
• Lead Risk Assessments: Manage process safety risk analyses by securing and verifying competent technical resources, whether internal specialists or external contractors.
• Action Plan Management: Formulate and track targeted action plans to effectively control and minimize industrial risks.

🏛️ Compliance, Audits & Agency Representation

• Regulatory Liaison: Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the site, parent company, and regulatory bodies (e.g., EPA, DREAL, Prefecture, and local authorities).
• Manage Inspections & Reporting: Coordinate regulatory inspections, draft official responses, and formalize studies regarding environmental regulations and group audits.
• Ensure Operational Permitting: Validate that safety actions for priority/critical processes align with major accident prevention and license-to-operate requirements.

🤝 Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance

• Cross-Department Alignment: Partner closely with internal teams to ensure all activities meet rigorous safety standards and regulatory compliance.
• Safety Management Custodian: Act as the ultimate gatekeeper for the site's Safety Management System (SMS) and co-validate operational change requests (MOC) alongside HSE leadership.

🎓 Culture & Capability Building

• Upskill Workforce: Advance employee technical and methodological capabilities by sharing best practices and embedding a robust process safety culture platform-wide.
• Metrics & Reporting: Propose, track, and report on key regulatory, normative, and operational HSE indicators to drive continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

🎓 Education & Experience

• Education: Engineering degree (or equivalent) specializing in safety, environmental science, or engineering.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience dedicated to Industrial Risk Management.
• Industry Focus: Proven experience working within the battery industry.
• Technical Background: Demonstrated success utilizing risk analysis tools, launching industrial safety programs, and leading employee safety training.

📜 Knowledge & Technical Skills

• Regulatory Expertise: Thorough, deep understanding of applicable industrial safety regulations.
• Core Competencies: Strong reporting and analytical capabilities paired with advanced computer skills.

👥 Leadership & Soft Skills

• Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external authorities.
• Problem Solving: Exceptional problem resolution skills under complex operational constraints.
• Work Style: Proven ability to work seamlessly both independently and within a collaborative team environment.
• Language: Fluency in French is highly preferred.