Environment, Health and Safety Manager

The Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Manager is the site leader responsible for continuously improving the safety systems that protect employees, the community, and the business through hands‑on ownership, visible leadership, disciplined follow‑through, and sustained culture change.

Client is striving toward a goal of zero energetic material ignitions. Achieving this requires more than regulatory compliance. It requires strong process safety, industrial safety, environmental stewardship, rigorous change management, and a culture in which employees and leaders understand hazards, follow standards, speak up, stop work when necessary, and take personal ownership for safe execution.

The EH&S Manager partners closely with Production, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Human Resources, Facilities, Security, Materials, Planning, and Program leadership to embed safety into how work is designed and performed. Client believes that safer, more stable, and better‑controlled processes improve quality, reliability, productivity, schedule performance, and employee engagement. This leader is expected to help the organization demonstrate that connection through measurable results.

• Own and continuously improve the site EH&S management system and annual safety strategy, with progress toward zero energetic material ignitions as a primary operating objective.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Safety and Environmental team; establish clear expectations, build technical and leadership capability, and hold the function accountable for timely, high‑quality execution.
• Maintain a strong and visible presence on the manufacturing floor, routinely observing high‑risk work, engaging supervisors and employees, verifying that critical controls are effective, and ensuring gaps are corrected promptly.
• Lead safety culture and change‑management efforts so that leaders and employees understand hazards, follow standards, exercise stop‑work authority, report concerns, learn from events, and take ownership for safe execution.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, Department of Defense, ATF, OSHA/Cal/OSHA, EPA, DOT, NFPA, and other safety and environmental requirements affecting the site.
• Lead applicable Process Safety Management and energetic‑material safety systems, including Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change (MOC), pre‑startup safety reviews, Quantity‑Distance controls, safe storage and handling, and ignition‑source/static‑control requirements.
• Ensure EH&S requirements are incorporated before implementation of new products, materials, equipment, automation, capital projects, process changes, production restarts, and other changes that can alter site risk.
• Own and continuously improve critical high‑risk work‑control systems, including lockout/tagout, confined‑space entry, hot work, machine safety, electrical safety, and other permit or control systems applicable to site operations.
• Lead root‑cause investigations for injuries, near misses, fires, energetic‑material ignitions, environmental events, and significant unsafe conditions; ensure corrective actions address systemic causes and are verified for sustained effectiveness.
• Own industrial hygiene and occupational‑health systems, including applicable exposure monitoring, lead controls, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, PPE, ergonomics, medical surveillance, and partnership with Human Resources on compliant return‑to‑work processes.
• Own the site environmental compliance management system, including applicable hazardous‑waste, air, wastewater, stormwater, spill‑prevention, permitting, reporting, inspection, and recordkeeping requirements.
• Lead emergency preparedness and response systems, including fire, spill,…