Ehs Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local environmental regulations covering air, water, hazardous waste, and chemical management.
• Working knowledge of applicable occupational safety regulations.
• Working knowledge of SCAQMD, LACSD, CUPA, CARB, CalEPA, Cal/OSHA, and State Water Resources Control Board requirements.

Nice To Haves

• At least 5 years of related work experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and drive environmental standard practices through plant management to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal environmental regulations and company standards.
• Direct and develop the California site EHS Managers and provide technical support to the sites.
• Develop a continual-improvement environmental compliance culture, including hazardous waste, storm water, air permit, and chemical management training, and work toward an environmental management system such as ISO 14001 or similar.
• Support basic OSHA training and behavioral-based safety systems such as STOP.
• Ensure plant-level environmental compliance, including permit-condition and monitoring tracking, release and near-miss reporting, communication, on-site audits, and training and certification systems.
• Maintain a compliance and regulatory tracking program that keeps accurate records and provides advance notice of training and certification renewals.
• Work with EHS Leads and consultants to compile, review, and submit environmental regulatory and compliance reports for California sites, as well as required health and safety reporting.
• Educate sites, drive performance, and measure compliance with hazardous-material handling, storage, and waste-management regulations.
• Conduct environmental compliance audits and ongoing site visits to identify regulatory exposures, release potential, and hazards; evaluate compliance and loss potential; and implement measurable, sustainable solutions.
• Implement an environmental reporting and metrics system and analyze emissions, discharges, waste generation, permit deviations, environmental incidents, and injury and illness data to support a zero-release, zero-incident culture.
• Audit internal programs to evaluate their effectiveness and progress toward best-in-class standards.
• Ensure processes, resources, and metrics are in place for routine inspections of environmental controls and equipment, hazardous and universal waste areas, storage tanks, spill-response supplies, and specified emergency and safety equipment.
• Ensure consistent reporting, cost analysis, scheduling, and manifesting for hazardous waste shipments.
• Ensure processes and resources are in place to continuously update the SDS library.
• Apply working knowledge of SCAQMD requirements, including permitting, source testing, recordkeeping, and annual emissions reporting.
• Ensure site programs, permits, and reporting comply with LACSD, CUPA, CARB, CalEPA, Cal/OSHA, and State Water Resources Control Board requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.