Regional Environmental, Health & Safety; EHS Leader

Regional Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Leader

Job Category
: EHS

Requisition Number
: REGIO
003359

• Full-Time
• On-site

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MAPS Florence Manahatt KS
Florence Corporation
5935 Corporate Drive
Manhattan, KS 66503, USA

The Regional EHS Leader Serves as a trusted advisor and operational partner, the Regional EHS Leader champions a leader-led culture of safety rooted in continuous improvement, employee engagement, and proactive risk reduction. This role is responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local environmental and safety regulations while standardizing best practices and fostering a unified “one message” safety approach across the division.

In addition to EHS leadership responsibilities, this role plays a critical part in supporting and sustaining ISO standards across assigned facilities, including leadership support for ISO 9001 and ISO 140001 certification efforts and ongoing compliance initiatives. The Regional EHS Leader partners with plant leadership to strengthen operational discipline, process consistency, documentation integrity, corrective action systems, and continuous improvement efforts that support successful ISO certification and audit readiness.

Environmental, Health & Safety Leadership

• Ensure overall EHS compliance for six manufacturing and distribution facilities in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations and company standards.
• Provide oversight of environmental compliance programs across all assigned locations, including applicable permitting, reporting, inspections, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and champion a leader-led culture of safety that embraces accountability, employee engagement, continuous improvement, and a unified divisional safety philosophy.
• Partner with plant leadership teams to integrate safety into daily operations, decision-making, and continuous improvement activities.
• Support and oversee local safety committee initiatives to foster grassroots employee involvement and ownership of workplace safety.
• Lead and manage EHS KPIs, leading and lagging indicators, scorecards, and applicable reporting metrics to drive performance improvements and accountability.
• Conduct facility audits, behavioral-based safety observations, risk assessments, and compliance reviews to identify opportunities for improvement and reduce operational risk.
• Participate in new equipment reviews, process changes, and acquisition due diligence activities to ensure alignment with EHS regulatory and corporate standards.
• Apply and interpret occupational health and safety regulations and consensus standards (including OSHA and ANSI standards) to support compliance and operational effectiveness.

Incident Management & Regulatory Compliance

• Lead incident management processes, including OSHA recordability determinations, recordkeeping, reporting, investigations, and corrective action development.
• Partner with HR, operations leadership, insurance carriers, medical providers, employees, and corporate EHS teams on workers’ compensation case management and return-to-work coordination, when applicable.
• Work with local leadership teams to conduct thorough incident investigations, identify root causes, and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain ownership of applicable Driver Qualification processes and related safety compliance programs as needed.
• Partner with business leaders, regional peers, and corporate EHS teams to develop and deploy effective EHS training programs that meet regulatory requirements and operational needs.
• Lead the development, maintenance, training, and deployment of the corporate Safety Management System (SMS) and other applicable systems, applications, and tools throughout the region.
• Collaborate with divisional leadership and regional peers to assess, recommend, standardize, and implement EHS programs, processes, and best practices across all sites within the region.
• Co-host monthly divisional safety calls and contribute to divisional safety strategy, communication, and alignment initiatives.

ISO & Quality System Support

• Partner with plant leadership to support and sustain ISO…