Senior Corporate EHS Manager

Steel Partners•Clementon, NJ

About The Position

The Senior Corporate EHS Manager is Steel Partners’ enterprise-level leader for environmental, health, and safety across its operating companies. The role provides independent oversight to ensure companies meet EHS obligations, including on-site audits and follow-up; hands-on technical support to operating companies with smaller EHS teams; and leadership of portfolio-wide programs, regulatory initiatives, and risk efforts. The position is the single point of accountability for EHS across Steel Partners and works closely with operating company presidents, plant leaders, site EHS professionals, Corporate Legal, and Risk Management. The manager leads annual on-site audits, monitors safety performance, supports incident investigations, maintains injury records, and ensures corrective actions are tracked through closure. The role also serves as a technical resource and mentor for site EHS professionals, coordinates enterprise EHS forums, supports industrial hygiene evaluations, and advances communication and near-miss reporting. The position develops and reviews corporate EHS policies and procedures, tracks regulatory developments, oversees environmental permitting and reporting, leads cross-company hazard-reduction initiatives, manages RCRA obligations at legacy sites, and uses AI and data tools to strengthen EHS analytics and reporting. It also partners with Risk Management and Corporate Legal on workers’ compensation and insurance loss control, and identifies cost-effective safety equipment and PPE programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive EHS experience in manufacturing or industrial environments, including multi-site, divisional, or corporate-level responsibility.
Strong working knowledge of OSHA general industry standards and federal and state environmental programs, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, EPCRA, and TSCA/PFAS.
Demonstrated experience leading EHS audits, incident investigations, and root-cause analysis, and driving corrective actions to closure.
Experience with workers’ compensation claims management and insurance loss control.
Ability to influence without direct authority across decentralized businesses, from plant floor to operating company presidents.
Clear, concise writing skills, including the ability to produce audit reports, policies, and executive summaries.
RCRA hazardous waste and DOT hazardous materials training, or the ability to obtain them promptly.
Willingness to travel extensively to operating company sites, up to approximately 50%.

Nice To Haves

Professional certification such as CSP, CIH, or CHMM.
Lean or continuous improvement experience.
Comfort with EHS management software and AI tools.

Responsibilities

Plan and lead an annual program of on-site EHS audits across operating company facilities, typically 8–12 sites per year, coordinating with site operations, maintenance, and EHS teams.
Require immediate correction of imminently dangerous conditions and hold audit close-out meetings with site leadership.
Issue written audit reports within 30 days, assign corrective actions in the enterprise tracking system, and follow up at 30 and 60 days through closure.
Monitor portfolio safety performance, including recordables, lost-time cases, and near misses; identify trends and drive countermeasures with operating company leaders.
Participate in and co-author serious incident investigations and drive root-cause countermeasures, prioritizing engineering and process controls.
Review OSHA 300/300A logs for accuracy before annual posting deadlines and maintain the enterprise injury record archive.
Serve as the technical resource and escalation point for site EHS professionals, especially at operating companies with smaller EHS teams, and provide interim coverage when an EHS lead leaves.
Mentor EHS professionals; peer review permit renewals, waste manifests, DOT and wastewater submittals; identify training needs and secure leadership support.
Lead monthly enterprise EHS calls and chair the annual Steel Partners EHS Council, including its budget, agenda, speakers, and logistics.
Support industrial hygiene evaluations by helping sites scope exposure sampling, select qualified vendors, and interpret results against OSHA and NIOSH limits.
Champion the enterprise EHS communication and near-miss reporting platform.
Develop, maintain, and annually review corporate EHS policies and procedures as part of the Governance, Risk & Compliance program.
Track emerging federal, state, local, and international EHS requirements, determine applicability by operating company, and recommend cost-effective compliance solutions.
Oversee environmental permitting and regulatory reporting; maintain an enterprise compliance calendar; and prepare for and attend meetings between operating companies and regulators.
Lead cross-company kaizen events and programs addressing common hazards, including laceration prevention, ergonomics, and contractor safety management.
Manage RCRA obligations at legacy non-operating sites, including maintaining certification to sign hazardous waste manifests.
Use AI and data tools to strengthen EHS analytics, root-cause analysis, policy development, and reporting.
Partner with Risk Management and Corporate Legal on workers’ compensation claims, including coordination with the third-party administrator and sites, monitoring high-priority and litigated claims, and analyzing year-over-year spend trends.
Serve as liaison to the property insurer’s risk engineers, attend site loss-control visits, and drive closure of recommendations, including building the case for capital investment.
Identify enterprise-wide vendor and purchasing programs for safety equipment and PPE that reduce cost and improve protection.