Environmental, Health, & Safety (EHS) Manager - Decatur, IL

VetJobs•Decatur, IL

11d•$70,400 - $131,300•Onsite

About The Position

The EHS Manager provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for Environmental, Health, Safety, and Process Safety programs at the East Plant in Decatur, Illinois. The role is accountable for establishing and sustaining a strong EHS culture, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and ADM standards, reducing risk, and developing capabilities for safe and reliable operations. The EHS Manager partners with Operations, Maintenance & Reliability, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and site leadership to identify and eliminate risk, strengthen process safety systems, and drive continuous improvement. The position has direct responsibility for EHS/PSM/TPS program management, environmental compliance, safety capability development, regulatory agency and injury case management, auditing, and site EHS improvement initiatives. It reports to the East Plant Manager and is a member of the Site Leadership Team. The position requires work in an office and in varying indoor and outdoor environments, including extreme heat and cold, and the ability to traverse up to two miles during a workday. Successful completion of a background check is required. The expected base pay range is $70,400 to $131,300, and the total compensation package includes an annual bonus and a long-term incentive plan.

Requirements

Relevant experience in EHS leadership within manufacturing, chemical, food, agricultural processing, or another high-hazard industrial environment.
Strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA, PSM, and applicable state and local regulatory requirements.
Experience with process safety, hazard analysis, incident investigation, risk assessment, and safety management systems.
Experience leading audits, regulatory inspections, corrective action programs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Strong analytical, communication, influencing, and organizational skills.
Ability to work effectively with frontline employees, technical personnel, contractors, and senior leadership.
Ability to translate complex regulatory and technical requirements into practical standards and behaviors for plant personnel.
Ability to work in office and varying indoor and outdoor environments, including extreme heat and cold.
Ability to traverse up to two miles during a workday.
Successful completion of a background check.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

Lead the identification, assessment, prioritization, and mitigation of EHS and process safety risks across the plant.
Provide technical leadership for hazard assessments, including Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Dust Hazard Analysis (DHA), job/task risk assessments, and other risk evaluation processes.
Ensure identified risks are documented, prioritized, assigned, and effectively closed.
Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability to incorporate risk reduction into equipment design, operating practices, maintenance strategies, and capital projects.
Provide EHS input and oversight for Management of Change (MOC), pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR), incident investigations, and other high-risk activities.
Own and continuously improve site EHS, Process Safety Management (PSM), and Total Process Safety (TPS) programs, ensuring effective implementation of ADM standards and requirements.
Maintain program discipline through clear ownership, standard work, performance monitoring, routine auditing, and action plans to address gaps.
Develop and maintain a plant safety and process safety capability-building strategy, including role-based competencies, training, qualification, and refresher programs.
Develop and facilitate EHS training for leaders, supervisors, operators, maintenance personnel, and other employees, and verify understanding and field competency.
Serve as the primary site contact for applicable regulatory agencies and coordinate inspections, visits, inquiries, responses, and follow-up activities.
Manage occupational injury and illness cases with HR, medical providers, and plant leadership, including investigation, documentation, reporting, and corrective actions.
Own site safety performance reporting; establish meaningful leading and lagging indicators and provide routine performance updates to plant leadership and employees.
Use metrics, trends, audits, observations, and incident information to identify systemic risks and improvement opportunities, and hold leaders accountable for EHS actions and commitments.
Develop and execute a comprehensive EHS audit strategy, lead or coordinate audits, and ensure findings and corrective actions are risk-ranked, assigned, closed, and verified for effectiveness.
Monitor regulatory and ADM requirements and translate changes into site actions and program updates.
Maintain management oversight of the Site Environmental Leader, who owns environmental permitting, chemical management, and compliance programs; ensure operations remain within permit and regulatory requirements.
Maintain environmental permits and ensure required conditions, monitoring, inspections, and recordkeeping are completed.
Partner with Operations and Engineering to identify ways to reduce environmental risk and improve compliance performance.
Ensure contractors meet ADM safety, environmental, qualification, and performance expectations; lead monthly Contractor EHS reviews and address performance deficiencies.
Ensure timely and accurate completion of environmental, safety, process safety, and regulatory reports, and maintain records demonstrating compliance.
Be a visible EHS leader in the field, build employee and leader ownership of EHS performance, challenge unsafe conditions and behaviors, and drive sustainable improvement.