EH&S Manager

The EH&S Manager provides strategic leadership for plant safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance initiatives. Serving as a key business partner to Plant Leadership and the broader AHF Safety organization, this role drives a proactive safety culture that protects employees, minimizes risk, and supports operational excellence. The EH&S Manager develops and implements safety and environmental strategies, ensures regulatory compliance, and drives continuous improvement.

This visible and engaged leader partners across Operations, Maintenance, Quality, HR, and other functions to strengthen accountability, develop leaders, identify and mitigate risk, and integrate safety into daily business decisions.

Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:

• Manage plant's environmental and safety reporting including regulatory OSHA, EPA, and IEPA reporting and record keeping requirements.
• Create and manage budgets for EHS activities including consulting and testing, waste removal, safety training and equipment, safety recognition activities, etc.
• Management of the workers' compensation process in cooperation with a third‑party administrator to ensure that employees having legitimate claims expeditiously receive required benefits while protecting the company's assets from illegitimate claims.

• Develop, implement, and coordinate the EH&S program for the operation and monitor the work processes and procedures to drive team performance toward departmental and organizational goals
• Facilitate and organize training for all personnel, temporary employees, contractors, etc. on safety processes and practices, new initiatives and injury and incident avoidance
• Administer and monitor Behavior Based Safety initiatives. Serve as the champion for changing and fostering a robust safety culture
• Facilitate two-way communication with leadership & employees, regarding safety performance, incidents, and other related information
• Perform internal audits to identify non-compliance, hazardous conditions & unsafe behaviors; audit scope includes processes, facilities and equipment. Conduct site safety audits as necessary
• Evaluate the plant's compliance with environmental regulations and identify areas of improvement
• Manage improvement opportunities & any non-compliance issues from concept through conclusion
• Coach plant leadership and frontline supervision to strengthen EH&S ownership, hazard recognition, decision-making, and accountability.
• Be available to interface employees and medical treatment personnel (Company Medical Representative or Emergency Room Physician) to ensure proper level of care is provided for any medical treatment case
• Perform accidents/incidents investigations and facilitates the development of root cause corrections
• Conduct hazard assessment, including identification of hazards and corrective action plans
• Lead and facilitate safety committee meetings and activities
• Implement environmental solutions and drive changes in manufacturing processes / systems that lead to reduction in environmental waste streams
• Lead investigations into any environmental regulatory non‑compliance incidents and provide urgent responses to operational issues
• Provide project support for corporate EH&S initiatives
• Collaborate with network EH&S personnel to share best practices and drive continuous improvement. Manage the plant's safety and industrial hygiene programs and ensure compliance with internal and external safety and health regulations and policies
• Promote a proactive safety culture focused on preventing injuries, identifying and controlling risk, encouraging reporting, and…