Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Wabtec•Maxton, NC

7d•$79,100 - $112,800•Onsite

About The Position

The Environmental Health & Safety Manager drives a proactive EHS culture across a manufacturing facility, partnering with operations and cross-functional teams to identify risks, address program-compliance gaps, improve performance metrics, and apply lean principles. The role tracks and communicates leading-indicator scorecards, educates operations leaders, and improves EHS routines and cadence. It also leads facility-wide environmental, health, and safety programs and promotes team-member engagement, education, and involvement. Working on-site and on the shop floor is an essential function. The manager provides strategic and tactical leadership for site EHS performance, maintains compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and business-practice requirements, and collaborates with operations to address EHS concerns involving site operations, equipment, and new products. The role maintains site EHS metrics, works with EHS headquarters on projects and initiatives such as greenhouse-gas reduction, sustainability, and culture change, and uses KPIs to support continuous improvement. Key environmental duties include maintaining air-permit documentation and digital compliance information systems, implementing engineering solutions and permit requirements, documenting regulatory compliance, preparing reports for local regulatory bodies and the USEPA, delivering compliance training, monitoring regulatory changes, and implementing other site environmental programs. The position includes travel of less than 10%.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in health sciences, safety engineering, environmental engineering, or a related field.
At least 5 years in a site leadership role at a plant.
Sound knowledge of environmental, health, and safety regulatory and statutory requirements, including ISO certifications.
Demonstrated experience managing air permits.
Understanding of current EHS technology applications and willingness to embrace future technologies to improve EHS performance.
Ability to exercise vision and sound judgment at the local level and address difficult issues with tact, diplomacy, and timeliness.
Strong leadership, change-execution, and financial-management skills.
Readily and actively contributes to team success.
Ability to act as a change agent through interactions with others.
Ability to regularly lift at least 50 pounds; work outdoors in extreme heat and cold; and frequently stand, walk, bend, crouch, push, and pull.
Ability to work near moving mechanical parts and extreme non-weather heat; occasional exposure to airborne particles.

Nice To Haves

Prior EHS experience leading EHS activities in a manufacturing environment.
Prior experience managing environmental permits and culture change.
Knowledge of OSHA, RCRA, NPDES, and DOT regulations.
Six Sigma training or equivalent Lean/Quality training.
Ability to lead process implementation in a teaming environment.
Ability to prioritize and balance multiple ongoing tasks.
At least 5 years as a senior EHS leader at a plant.

Responsibilities

Maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and business best-practice EHS regulations and standards.
Provide strategic and tactical leadership for site performance against EHS goals and objectives.
Validate health, safety, and environmental frameworks to support full compliance with regulatory training and requirements.
Develop a systematic approach to managing organizational changes throughout the site.
Partner with operations teams to identify and address EHS concerns related to site operations, equipment, and new products.
Perform administrative and cross-functional coordination activities needed to manage shop operations and achieve objectives.
Maintain site EHS metrics and collaborate with EHS headquarters on projects and initiatives, including greenhouse-gas reduction, sustainability, and culture change.
Promote continuous improvement by implementing EHS KPIs to measure progress toward organizational goals.
Ensure site personnel understand and comply with environmental certifications, permits, and regulations, and implement compliance solutions.
Work with internal and external teams to maintain air-permit documentation.
Develop and maintain digital management information systems for demonstrating air-permit compliance.
Implement engineering solutions to ensure compliance with site environmental permits.
Implement and audit team-member requirements for site permits.
Document compliance with regulatory permitting.
Prepare regulatory reports for local governing bodies and the USEPA.
Update and deliver regulatory compliance training.
Review and track upcoming regulatory changes that may affect facilities.
Implement other environmental programs for the site.
Track and communicate leading-indicator scorecards, educate operations leaders, and improve EHS cadence and operating rhythms.
Engage team members through education and involvement to strengthen the facility's EHS culture.