EHS Engineer

Metal Technologies • Ravenna, MI

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About The Position

The EHS Engineer works with local plant staff to carry out or coordinate safety and environmental activities at the plant. The role leads plant EHS management and helps ensure compliance with state and federal safety, health, and environmental regulations, as well as company programs and operating procedures. The position combines office work and plant-floor activity, with working conditions split 50% in the office and 50% on the plant floor.

The EHS Engineer conducts workplace assessments, proposes risk-reduction improvements, delivers required training, manages medical surveillance and qualification processes, and handles routine environmental issues. The role also supports environmental inspections and records, ensures adherence to site-specific environmental requirements, manages spill and emergency responses, and builds trusting, psychologically safe relationships with managers, supervisors, and hourly employees.

Requirements

• Degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, or a related discipline.
• 1–3 years of experience with safety and environmental programs in a heavy industrial environment; co-op or intern experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated problem-solving, critical-thinking, and project-management skills.
• Excellent understanding of applicable state and federal EHS regulations.
• Knowledge of industrial hazard recognition and risk-reduction measures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with team members, management, and company support functions.
• Working knowledge of machine guarding, conservation, confined spaces, incident investigation, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, hazard communication, lockout, OSHA recordkeeping, ergonomics, and RCRA.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Desire to learn and understand plant manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead plant EHS management.
• Help ensure compliance with state and federal safety, health, and environmental regulations and company programs and operating procedures.
• Perform workplace assessments and propose improvements to reduce risk.
• Deliver training to meet safety and environmental requirements.
• Manage the medical surveillance and qualification process.
• Conduct stormwater and non-contact cooling water inspections and maintain related records.
• Ensure adherence to site-specific environmental requirements, including SWPPP, SPCC, APCP, and EMS.
• Serve as the contact point for routine plant environmental issues.
• Manage responses to spills and other emergencies.
• Establish trusting, psychologically safe relationships with managers, supervisors, and the hourly workforce.
• Manage the incident learning process.
• Identify and facilitate process improvement projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level