HSE Manager

Norsk Hydro

HSE Manager at Hydro ensuring safety compliance and culture in manufacturing environment. Leading safety team and driving fatality prevention efforts with a focus on continuous improvement.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeYankton • South Dakota • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leads team of safety professionals (direct reports), focusing the team’s goals and objectives on shop floor employee engagement and culture change to one of continuous safety thinking in the pathway of the work.
Additionally, leads a security team responsible for the access and security of the plant.
Drives fatality prevention activity and programs as the highest priority (Critical 7) and oversees the work of the plant resources who have responsibility for the fatality prevention program.
Strong shop floor presence among the operating personnel and plant leadership and spends significant time engaging employees, coaching, conducting WOCs, and developing a consistent dialogue to keep safety at the forefront of all activity and in the pathway of the work.
Maintains compliance to all OSHA (region and Federal), the EPA, the state environmental agency, and other applicable regulatory standards for the site.
Develops relationships with local agency representatives.
Ensures all HSE team activity focuses on results – reduction in total recordable injuries, first aids, minor injuries, and environmental incidents.
Promotes the idea that safety is not owned by the HSE organization, but by plant supervisors and department managers who hold their employees accountable for taking less risk.
Maintains and deploys a standard of excellence in the assessment of injury and injury-free incident cases to ensure proper classification, escalation processes, root cause analysis and determination of effective countermeasures including the development of major incident read across processes (case management).
Helps to drive improvement in case management at the plant level with support from their assigned Region HSE Manager.
Collaborates with the Management Systems Team to support the ISO 45001 (Health & Safety) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) standards.
Provides guidance and direction in the design and deployment of the management system at the plant level so that it is an effective and functional tool that drives the desired HSE and compliance culture.
Ensure the plant-level system ties out to corporate policy and requirements.
Supports and conducts effective HSE audits of the ENA facilities to support continuous improvement.
Supports third party and other Business Unit / Area audits as applicable.
Works to implement effective corrective actions resulting from audit findings.
Participates in BA auditing program which involves occasional participation in cross-audits of other ENA facilities.
Provides support and documentation necessary within the Worker’s Compensation program for the site.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 5 years experience as an HSE professional in an industrial/manufacturing environment. (required)
Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Hygiene, Health Safety and Environment. (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical
Rx
Dental
Disability
Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Retirement Savings Plans with Company Match/Contributions
Education Assistance
Bonus Plan Eligibility
Parental Leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

fatality preventionroot cause analysiscase managementHSE auditscompliance managementISO 45001ISO 14001injury classificationenvironmental incident managementcontinuous improvement

Soft Skills

team leadershipemployee engagementcoachingcommunicationrelationship buildingcollaborationaccountabilitydialogue facilitationcultural changeproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial HygieneBachelor’s degree in Health Safety and Environment