Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Manager

Job Summary:  

The Environmental, Health and Safety Manager ensures compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations, and keeps abreast of any changes to laws and regulations that impact the organization.  The EH&S Manager demonstrates the ability to influence change through effective communication and collaboration, providing clear and consistent messages and programs supporting a culture of health, safety, and environmental awareness.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop relationships with leadership and employees to ensure EH&S policies and procedures are being applied and followed.
• Working with site management, shares best practices across the organization.
• Identify areas of improvement, lead development of improvement initiatives, and establish EH&S action plans to achieve set objectives and targets.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on environmental, health, safety and sustainability issues.
• Compile and publish reports as required.
• Advise and support site management/operational staff on all EH&S activities, communicating initiatives, and establishing/updating and disseminating documentation relating to the EH&S.
• Champion initiatives, focusing on preventive actions, that identify and communicate facility risk exposure, prioritizing risk reduction needs and ensuring closure of recommendations to reduce risk.
• Leads investigation of safety related accidents or incidents (including near misses) to identify root cause(s) and implementation of effective corrective/preventive actions.
• Monitor and ensure compliance to local, state, and federal EH&S regulations.  
• Maintain all required environmental, safety and health permits.
• Manages development delivery of training programs for regulatory mandated requirements as well as site specific EH&S training.
• Audits the effectiveness, quality, and presenter delivery of all required safety training.
• Ensure routine audits are conducted of facilities and processes to assess and identify safety, health, and environmental risks.
• Ensure regular risk assessments are conducted on all processes and equipment and recommend appropriate controls when hazards or potential hazards are identified.
• Compile and publish monthly, quarterly and annual reports on site health and safety performance, EH&S issues, regulatory compliance and personnel training.
• Oversees handling, storage, and shipment of hazardous wastes, maintaining compliance with all local/state/federal regulations.
• Partners with HR on all workers comp issues. 
• Manages all contractor management systems (e.g., ISNetworld, Avetta, etc.) and assists with completion of customer qualification forms.
• Partners with third party contractors to maintain the manufacturing wastewater treatment plant.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering or other relevant technical discipline.
• 3+ years proven experience or supplemental education, with a minimum of 1 year of EHS management experience.
• Must be able to lead and influence across all levels and departments in order to drive focus and impact results.
• Must think and act strategically and view the business from a general management standpoint.
• Must be very customer focused and have strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• EHS technical work in a manufacturing operations environment.
• Familiarity with all aspects of EHS management, including environmental sustainability and corporate governance.
• Strategic thinking skills; must be able to think long-term and be able to prioritize.
• Knowledge of applicable ISO and OHSAS standards.
• ASP, CSP, CIH, REM, or other nationally recognized certification would be preferred but not required.