EHS Manager

Position Overview

The Facility EHS Manager/Specialist reports directly to the Site Plant Manager and leads the facility’s Environmental, Health, Safety, Security, and Sustainability (EHSS&S) programs. This role ensures regulatory compliance, drives a strong safety culture, supports environmental stewardship, and maintains effective industrial hygiene and process safety programs.

• Implement and maintain the site’s EHSS&S management systems and corporate safety programs.
• Assess training needs and develop, coordinate, and deliver employee safety training programs.
• Lead the facility Safety Team and promote employee engagement in safety initiatives.
• Lead accident, injury, and near‑miss investigations and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Conduct audits and inspections of plant operations to ensure employees have the training, procedures, tools, and PPE necessary to work safely.
• Develop, monitor, and communicate EHSS&S goals, metrics, leading indicators, and performance results.
• Maintain injury and illness tracking systems and ensure proper reporting procedures are followed.
• Ensure emergency response programs and teams are maintained, including First Aid, HAZWOPER spill response, and Safety Committee activities.
• Build and sustain a positive, proactive safety culture throughout the facility.
• Collaborate with corporate and global EHSS&S teams to implement company‑wide programs, initiatives, and best practices.

• Manage environmental permits and regulatory programs, ensuring ongoing compliance, audit readiness, timely reporting, and permit modifications as required.
• Coordinate environmental inspections, sampling, record‑keeping, and submissions required by federal, state, and local regulations.
• Manage hazardous and special waste activities, including profiling, storage, transportation, and disposal.
• Support sustainability initiatives and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate environmental compliance training related to hazardous waste, stormwater, spill prevention, air permitting, and waste minimization.
• Conduct facility inspections and identify opportunities for housekeeping, environmental, and safety improvements.
• Customize and implement corporate environmental programs to meet site‑specific operational needs.

• Develop and maintain employee health risk assessments, approved chemical inventories, and the site Chemical Hygiene Plan.
• Assess chemical and physical hazard exposures through workplace observations, process hazard reviews, and evaluation of process or product changes.
• Conduct or coordinate industrial hygiene monitoring activities, document findings, and communicate recommendations for exposure control improvements.
• Recommend and support implementation of engineering, administrative, and PPE controls to reduce employee exposures.
• Serve as a resource on chemical and physical hazard recognition, exposure assessment, and control strategies.

• Support Process Safety Management (PSM) programs, including HAZOP reviews, process hazard assessments, engineering controls, and Management of Change (MOC) activities.
• Review capital projects and process modifications to ensure EHSS&S considerations are incorporated into facility design and operations.
• Maintain relationships with local medical providers, emergency responders, and regulatory agencies as needed.
• Support additional EHSS&S, security, and sustainability initiatives as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Safety, Environmental Health & Safety, or a related field.

• Experience with or working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, NFPA, DHS, Responsible Care, Risk Management Programs (RMP), Process Safety Management (PSM), and related regulations.

• Experience developing and delivering EHS training programs.

• Experience conducting accident and incident investigations and implementing corrective actions.

• Strong project management, leadership, communication, organizational, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.

• Knowledge of U.S. security regulations and…