EHS Manager
About The Position
The Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Manager is responsible for the health and safety of company employees, visitors, and contractors, and for ensuring the company complies with environmental laws and regulations. The manager leads and participates in initiatives that promote employee safety and health and ensures employees receive EHS training relevant to their roles. In collaboration with the Operations Manager, the EHS Manager ensures compliance with state and federal regulations covering employees, equipment, and operations, and reduces workers’ compensation exposure through accident investigations and proactive accident-prevention practices. The role implements and monitors EHS programs, evaluates workplace conditions and practices, delivers safety training, investigates incidents, and advises management. It also supports regulatory inspections and correspondence, leads emergency response planning, monitors EHS performance indicators, and works with corporate EHS on risk-reduction initiatives. The position may have direct supervisory responsibilities. The work environment includes both an office and a manufacturing facility operating heavy machinery and combustible gases. Domestic and international travel may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and/or 6 or more years of relevant experience.
- Proven track record in the company’s industry or industries with comparable risk profiles and cultures.
- Demonstrable track record of successfully driving safety implementations throughout facilities.
- Comparable practical site experience in a highly engineered or manufacturing environment.
- Strong communication and computer skills.
- Ability to develop and implement EHS programs.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively with management and associates on the production floor.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work with various materials and/or tools.
- Ability to work and bend at different heights and in various temperatures, and remain on one’s feet for extended periods.
Responsibilities
- Implement EHS programs in compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations.
- Evaluate workplace environments, equipment, and practices for compliance with safety standards and government regulations.
- Conduct safety training and demonstrate the use of safety equipment.
- Investigate accidents, identify their causes, and determine how to prevent similar incidents.
- Advise management and act as a liaison during regulatory agency inspections and correspondence.
- Represent the company in community and industry safety groups, programs, and conferences.
- Keep current with developments in training, safety, and accident-prevention programs.
- Maintain records and assemble reports on lost-time accidents.
- Implement hazardous-material control.
- Drive EHS compliance through audits, process and equipment reviews, proactive risk elimination, and tracking corrective actions to closure.
- Compile periodic reports for Corporate and work with Corporate EHS on risk-reduction projects and initiatives.
- Lead development and implementation of site emergency response plans, including hazardous-material handling and spill response.
- Review EHS incidents and audit findings and monitor leading and lagging indicators to identify performance trends.
- Participate in management review and the performance excellence program.
- Review project and product technical and testing requirements to ensure EHS requirements are met.
- Participate in scrap-material management.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
