Safety EHS Manager

Why Choose Us

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

The EHS Manager will be responsible for leading the facility’s environmental, health, and safety program while creating a safety-focused culture. They will create, deploy, and champion policies, procedures, and processes that align with Novolex’s Human Performance (HP) initiative and ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal standards.

• Develop strategies for all facility areas, including both operational and office environments, to mitigate safety hazards and improve performance.
• Provide leadership, coaching & mentoring, managing performance, and rewarding & recognizing employees.
• Lead multiple projects simultaneously with a hands‑on approach in a fast‑paced environment to achieve the desired outcomes and results.
• Develop, deploy, and monitor the EHS Management System in a manner that ensures compliance to Federal, State, Local, Customer, and Corporate EHS requirements.
• Implement and administer an internal EHS hazard/risk register, assessment and compliance auditing process designed to validate alignment to ‘best known’ standards and practices and compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Develop, implement, and institutionalize a process to identify and eliminate high‑risk occurrences through review of historical incident data, leading/warning indicators, identified error traps plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity observations; and highly specified JSAs and SWIs.
• Champion the Human Performance (HP) initiative, ensuring the plant is effectively implementing and using this methodology.
• Set the frequency for and enable access to training requirements related to environmental, health, and safety practices for the site; ensure all required recurring training is administered and documented.
• Oversee the investigation of work‑related illnesses and injuries; investigating all Company incidents to identify root cause and appropriate corrective actions.
• Partner with Human Resources on Workers’ Compensation claims management and communicating with the carrier about the most effective method to control care; may accompany sick, hurt, or injured employees to the appropriate medical facility.
• Audit hazardous energy sources and other identified hazards to determine appropriate risk mitigation and work with engineering or maintenance to implement such controls.
• Site lead for emergency response, first responders, security and other EHS related programs and projects ensuring the implementation of industry best practices; organize and direct an employee Safety Committee, holding meetings to increase awareness.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline preferred; or, in lieu of a degree, an equivalent number of years of additional related work experience.
• 3+ years’ experience leading EHS in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Related post‑education training, certifications such as CIH, CSP, CPEA, or CHMM preferred.
• In‑depth knowledge of local, state, and federal reporting requirements related to EHS and experience responding to inquiries from relevant government agencies.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects under tight timelines; works with a sense of urgency.
• Displays excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to…