Environmental Health and Safety Manager

INW: Innovations in Nutrition and Wellness • Benicia, CA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager will develop, implement, and maintain EHS programs to support production operations, equipment use, and manufacturing processes. This role ensures compliance with all applicable OSHA and Cal/OSHA safety requirements, conducts routine and formal EHS audits and inspections, and leads accident investigations to implement corrective actions and preventative measures. The EHS Manager will monitor daily production activities, partner with department teams to identify and mitigate hazards, support the safe implementation of new equipment and processes through risk assessments, and develop and deliver EHS training. This position also involves maintaining accurate EHS records, leading regulatory inspections, promoting a culture of safety accountability, ensuring First-Aid inventory is stocked, coordinating safety supplies procurement, and driving down employee safety metrics in collaboration with other EHS managers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated working knowledge of federal OSHA and Cal/OSHA regulations.
• Experience conducting production-focused EHS audits and inspections.
• Strong written, verbal, and organizational skills.
• Able to understand, write and adhere to GMP, SOP and safe working practices.
• Able to lead Continuous Improvement projects.
• Able to work with other departments, supervisors and diverse language/cultural groups.
• Capable of working productively with little direct supervision.
• Must work in an organized fashion and have high attention to detail.
• Self-motivated.
• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Safety Management, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field (required).
• 3–5 years of professional EHS experience in a production or manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain EHS programs that support production operations, equipment use, and manufacturing processes.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable OSHA and Cal/OSHA safety requirements.
• Conduct routine and formal EHS audits and inspections of production areas, equipment, processes, and work practices.
• Conducts accident investigations and implements corrective actions when appropriate. Assists all departments when incidents/accidents occur. Conducts root cause investigations and implements preventative measures when needed.
• Monitor daily production activities to ensure adherence to safety procedures and regulatory standards.
• Partner with department teams to identify and mitigate operational hazards.
• Lead incident, near-miss, and injury investigations; perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Support safe implementation of new equipment, processes, or production changes through risk assessments.
• Develop and deliver EHS training specific to continually improve safety program.
• Update training and coordinate with personnel.
• Meet weekly or monthly for safety aligned meetings.
• Maintain accurate EHS records and documentation required for regulatory compliance and audits.
• Lead and support regulatory inspections and audits, including OSHA and Cal/OSHA interactions.
• Promote a culture of safety accountability and continuous improvement across all production shifts.
• Ensures in-house First-Aid inventory is properly stocked. Coordinates with third party suppliers to procure safety supplies.
• Coordinate training for monthly safety topics, for GMP, SOP and SSOP updates and for job specific equipment, skill development or process training.
• Performs regular on-site inspections projects and active manufacturing areas. Safety concerns are documented in RedZone to remain audit ready.
• Observes workplace conditions and makes necessary recommendation for corrective actions regarding health and safety.
• Partners with other Health and Safety managers throughout the INW group to drive down recordable employee safety metrics such as the Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR).
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Company paid Life Insurance for the employee, their spouse and eligible children
• Company paid AD&D and LTD Insurance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401K with company match

What This Job Offers

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