Jacobi McLin
Hillsborough
Summary
EHS professional with over eight years of experience across various settings, including production manufacturing plants, logistics centers, and R&D facilities. Specialized in regulatory compliance, possessing advanced knowledge of workplace safety, health regulations, and security protocols. Proven track record in implementing and enforcing safety policies and procedures, ensuring strict adherence to OSHA and EPA standards. Adept at leading and inspiring teams to prioritize and achieve EHS KPIs, enhancing performance and efficiency. Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop and implement control and remedial measures for hazardous conditions, equipment, or situations. Dedicated to maintaining a safe and secure work environment through continuous improvement and proactive EHS management.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Health and Safety - Security Champion
Reckitt
10.2021 - Current
- Supervise health and safety evaluations, audits, and ensure the resolution and follow-up of corrective actions identified during these assessments
- Oversee hazard identification and control program analysis
- Administer the health and safety budgets, accruals, and CAPEX investment projects
- Coordinate the emergency response management plan
- Develop and lead the implementation of safety, health, and environmental policies and procedures
- Create and maintain KPI trackers, audits, and metrics to monitor and report progress
- Form and facilitate teams and committees to enhance health and safety performance
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations related to environmental, health, safety, and security (OSHA, EPA, FRA, DHS, and NJDEP)
- Examine data from accident and loss event reports to determine causes, trends, and relationships, and offer mitigation strategies, risk and hazard identification, and measure of controls
- Investigate security incidents to determine root causes, impacts, and recommend remediation plans
- Lead a team of Security Officers responsible for monitoring CCTV cameras and responding to alarms
- Audit existing security systems for vulnerabilities and implement corrective measures as needed
- Collaborate with internal teams and external consultants on compliance-related projects
- Manage physical and security technology programs, including CCTV, access control, security lighting, gate systems, and incident management systems
- Act as a liaison between staff and management on health and safety issues
- Assist in developing job hazard analyses for current and new roles
- Design emergency response strategies for scenarios such as fires, chemical spills, and medical emergencies
- Participate in engineering CAPEX projects as the SME for equipment installation and setup, ensuring adherence to safety, health, and environmental principles
- Develop and deliver health and safety training courses to various audiences, including employees and contractors.
Safety Engineer
McCormick
08.2018 - 05.2021
- Work with teams to identify process issues and improvement opportunities by actively participating in continuous improvement activities
- Manages daily activities to ensure interaction with facility management team, team leaders, and facility employees to increase awareness and education levels regarding safe and compliant work
- Ensuring safe practices, injury/illness prevention processes and risk management by conducting risk assessments and job safety analysis’ on plant equipment
- Ensure regulatory programs are developed and implemented (ex
- Contractors, Powered Industrial Trucks, Confined Space, Chemical Management-SDS, etc.) Ensuring safe practices, injury/illness prevention processes and risk management by conducting risk assessments and job safety analysis’ on plant equipment
- Develop and distribute safety procedures and guidelines for equipment operation
- Analyze potentially dangerous workplace practices and conditions and make recommendations accordingly
- Investigate and make recommendations regarding all facility incident reports
- Provide support on health and safety services in coordination with program and personnel teams
- Ensure compliance of all health and safety programs with OSHA rules and requirements
- Assist in preparing health and safety procedure presentations for employee meetings
- Responsible for the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of multiple OSHA-required safety programs to ensure compliance with legal standards and McCormick Policies
- These include but are not limited to Emergency Action Plan (EAP), Respiratory Protection, Fall Protection, Bloodborne Pathogens, Lockout/Tagout, Hazard Communication, and the Chemical Hygiene Plan
- Communicate progress toward safety goals and KPIs with the Leadership Team and the Americas Supply Chain (ASC) Safety Team on a weekly and bi-weekly basis, respectively
- Conduct safety inspections of multiple laboratories, pilot plants, and office spaces to include the creation of a formal report and abatement tracking system
- Ensure that accident/incident investigations are conducted in a timely manner to include collaboration with the Americas Supply Chain (ASC) Safety Team, root cause analysis (RCA), and the implementation of corrective actions
- Oversee outsourcing related to safety initiatives (e.g
- Consultation for industrial hygiene monitoring, fire protection, etc.)
- Serve as a technical resource for the Plant, ensuring safe practices, injury/illness prevention processes and risk management
- Monitor and verify regulatory compliance of Plant industrial hygiene (e.g
- Air quality, noise, temperature, and/or radiation levels).
EHS Specialist
Nestle Purina Pet Care Company
06.2015 - 04.2018
- Provides proactive and reactive environmental compliance and risk management program consultation to all Global Sectors and sites
- Builds and delivers environmental risk management and compliance programming tools and training materials
- Tracks and reviews environmental program performance metrics and incident data and assists the Senior Director with updating the strategic plans
- Develops and delivers environmental compliance and risk management training programs for sites in all Global Sectors and multiple environmental program elements in various media
- Works with Sectors to develop annual environmental operating plans and track progress-to-plan
- Works with Nestle Legal teams to craft and strategize on potential Notice of Violations, exceedances, and other like regulatory activities
- Evaluates capital and innovation projects to determine environmental impacts, environmental compliance requirements, and environmental risk control needs
- Works with Global Sector EHS Managers as needed to support application for and review of environmental permits, as required, assuring on-going facility compliance and operating permits
- Participates on environmental significant incident investigations, root cause analyses, and incident corrective actions, including tracking to closure
- Supports EHS NA/LATAM audit processes
- Supports roll-out of environmental information/task management systems, such as MyEHS across Global Sectors
- Selects and manages environmental consultants and contractors to achieve Global environmental program goals
- Training and development for all employees
- Provides input to the Nestle Legal Department via legal review submittals for environmental issues
- Identifies new environmental regulatory obligations and other requirements through a regulatory applicability analysis process
- Create and deliver training materials and communications to expand capability in the defined subject matter
- ISO Management Compliance (14001,45001).
OSH Specialist
Pepsi Beverages Company
03.2012 - 04.2015
- Implement, execute, ensure compliance with the EHS policies and procedures, and all federal, state, and local OSHA/EPA/ (ex :LOTO, HazCom, Machine Safety, RCRA, etc)
- Manage local EHS budget
- Achieve annual targets rates for Lost Time, Recordable, Severity, and Environmental
- Ensure compliance with applicable occupational safety and environmental regulations
- Develop, implement, execute, and manage strategies to prevent workplace injuries, and environmental incidents
- Demonstrate solid employee relations experience, interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
- Display strong problem solving, organizational and analytical skills
- Demonstrate professional maturity and ability to act as a change leader by influencing all levels of the organization to drive continuous improvement in safety performance
- Conduct EHS activities such as training/auditing/assessing to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory agency requirements
- Perform risk assessments and assist in the implementation of effective physical and/ or behavioral control measures
- Recognize and verify the effectiveness of in-place control measures
- Identify unsafe equipment operation and conditions while demonstrating knowledge of appropriate corrective action for unsafe conditions or equipment use
- Exercise leadership, coordination, and communication with the leadership team to drive continuous EHS improvement across the location
- Complete root cause analyses and develop corrective action plans to address root basic causes and management system weak-spots through the use of industry-recognized cause analysis techniques
- Serves as subject matter expert (SME) for key environmental programs, such as wastewater, ammonia, emergency response, etc
- Provides templates and other tools to assists Sectors in the development and deployment of facility-specific environmental programs (e.g., Emergency Response, Spills, Stormwater, etc.) and external environmental reports to regulatory agencies.
Education
Master’s Degree (MPH) - Occupational Safety and Health
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJBachelor’s Degree (BA) - Occupational Safety
Waldorf University
Forest City, IASkills
- Knowledge of OSHA, EPA and NFPA Regulations
- Risk Assessment-Hazard Control
- Reporting Management Systems
- Incident Investigation
- Emergency Management
- Critical Thinking and Analysis
Certification
OSHA 10 Construction
OSHA 30 General Industry
Graduate Safety Professional (GSP/ASP)
First Aid/CPR/AED
NFPA 70E
Timeline
Health and Safety - Security Champion
Reckitt
10.2021 - Current
Safety Engineer
McCormick
08.2018 - 05.2021
EHS Specialist
Nestle Purina Pet Care Company
06.2015 - 04.2018
OSH Specialist
Pepsi Beverages Company
03.2012 - 04.2015
Master’s Degree (MPH) - Occupational Safety and Health
Rutgers University
Bachelor’s Degree (BA) - Occupational Safety
Waldorf University