Environmental Health & Safety Manager
About The Position
The Environmental Health & Safety Manager reports to the Plant Manager and leads environmental, health, and safety programs at the Quincy manufacturing facility. The role ensures regulatory and company compliance, strengthens employee engagement, identifies and reduces workplace risks, prevents incidents, and promotes environmental stewardship. The manager partners with plant teams to integrate environmental, health, and safety practices into daily operations. The position oversees site programs, management systems, continuous improvement, training, audits, risk assessments, investigations, environmental permits and reporting, and corrective actions. It also supports plant projects, sustainability initiatives, emergency preparedness, workers compensation, and return-to-work processes. The role may require presence in manufacturing facilities, where conditions can include moving equipment, high noise levels, and varying temperatures. The listed annual salary range is $82,000–$120,000. Actual pay depends on factors including location, relevant experience, skillset, and internal equity.
Requirements
- Four or more years of environmental, health, and safety experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Working knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, and applicable state and local requirements.
- Experience with incident investigations, audits, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, and corrective action processes.
- Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, data analysis, and employee engagement skills.
- May be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs or ladders, kneel, and perform repetitive tasks requiring hand-eye coordination.
- May be required to lift or carry materials that vary in weight and size.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in environmental health and safety, safety management, industrial hygiene, environmental science, or engineering preferred.
- Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, or another relevant certification preferred.
- Food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, environmental, health, and safety management systems, or continuous improvement experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead site environmental, health, and safety programs, management systems, and continuous improvement plans.
- Translate company policies and regulatory requirements into effective site procedures and operating practices.
- Advise plant leadership on environmental, health, and safety risks, compliance requirements, resources, and priorities.
- Partner with employees and leaders to identify hazards, assess risks, eliminate exposures, and prevent incidents.
- Develop and deliver required safety and health training and facilitate employee safety committees.
- Manage applicable programs including industrial hygiene, ergonomics, machine safety, contractor safety, and emergency response.
- Manage environmental permits, compliance requirements, records, control systems, and regulatory reporting.
- Conduct inspections, audits, and risk assessments and ensure corrective actions are completed.
- Lead investigations of injuries, near misses, environmental events, and significant exposures using root cause analysis.
- Analyze environmental, health, and safety performance to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with plant teams on capital projects, equipment changes, new processes, sustainability initiatives, and emergency preparedness.
- Support workers compensation and return-to-work processes in partnership with human resources.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support, and fitness reimbursement.
- Bonus incentive opportunity.
- Matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan.
- Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning, and tuition reimbursement.
- Paid time off, parental leave, flexible work schedules subject to location and role, and volunteer opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
