About this role
Your Career Begins at Timken If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Timken. Our employees make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.
Purpose and Scope As a member of the Corporate EHS team, you play a vital role in advancing the company’s global safety culture by putting Safety as a Core Value into action throughout the organization. Through collaboration with leaders and employees, this position will develop a culture of shared ownership, personal accountability and active engagement where safety is embedded in how we think, act, and operate every day. Drive meaningful and sustainable improvement by developing and implementing safety standards, processes and initiatives that strengthen risk prevention, empower employees and integrate safety into business operations and decision-making.
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Responsibilities
- Advance Safety Culture and Engagement: Champion initiatives that bring Safety as a Core Value into action by strengthening ownership, employee engagement and personal accountability.
- Partner with global facilities to foster a proactive safety culture where identifying risks, preventing injuries, and continuously improving safety are shared responsibilities.
- Strengthen Global Safety Standards: Develop, implement, and continuously improve global safety standards, processes and management systems that establish consistent expectations, reinforce accountability, and integrate safety into everyday operations.
- Drive Proactive Risk Reduction and Injury Prevention: Work with global facilities to identify, assess, and reduce safety risks through effective prevention strategies, technical guidance, and compliance programs.
- Promote a proactive approach that addresses potential hazards before injuries occur.
- Improve Safety Performance: Evaluate global safety performance, identify trends and systemic gaps, and translate data, assessments and incident learning into meaningful improvement strategies.
- Drive learning from incidents and assessments by identifying root causes, addressing systemic weaknesses and promoting sustainable actions.
- Build Organizational Safety Capability: Strengthen safety knowledge, competencies, and engagement across the organization through education, practical tools/processes, and sharing of good practices.
- Empower employees to recognize hazards and take ownership of safety within their areas of responsibility.
- Strengthen Global EHS Compliance: Provide technical expertise and guidance to support compliance with applicable regulations and company standards across a growing global organization.
- Conduct EHS assessments at global facilities to ensure conformance with requirements.
- Technical Skills and Leadership Competencies 7+ years of experience in safety management for a manufacturing company Ability to interpret safety regulations and develop tools/programs to ensure compliance and identify hazards Experience leading EHS compliance audits Effective analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills Highly detail-oriented, able to manage multiple projects with minimal supervision Excellent written and oral communication skills Proficient in EHS software, Microsoft Office (emphasis on Excel), Power Bi (preferred) Willing to travel at least 25% of their time Education Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental, Health & Safety, Industrial or Chemical Engineering, or equivalent discipline with 7+ years of relative experience Preferred: Certified Safety Professional, industrial hygiene experience, ISO 45001 experience/auditing All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards.
There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.