Manager, Environmental, Health and Safety

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The EHS Manager – Warehouse Operations, is responsible for leading Environmental, Health, and Safety programs within the company’s warehouse and distribution operations. This role develops and implements strategies that protect employees, contractors, visitors, products, equipment, and the environment while supporting safe, compliant, and efficient warehouse performance.

The EHS Manager partners with Warehouse Operations, Abb Vie Global EHS, Supply Chain, Quality, Facilities, Human Resources, Security, and other functions to identify hazards, reduce risk, strengthen safety culture, maintain regulatory compliance, and support continuous improvement. The role is expected to provide visible leadership in a pharmaceutical or similarly regulated environment where materials may include raw materials, finished products, chemicals, hazardous materials, controlled substances, temperature-sensitive products, and regulated waste.

• Develop, implement, and maintain EHS programs, procedures, standards, and objectives for warehouse operations and ensure warehouse activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety laws, regulations, permits, and company requirements.
• Provide EHS guidance during warehouse planning, process changes, equipment installations, layout changes, expansions, and operational improvements.
• Establish annual EHS goals, performance metrics, action plans, and improvement priorities. Analyze and assess key performance indicators, safety trends, and present findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Promote a proactive safety culture based on employee engagement, hazard prevention, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct and oversee job hazard analyses, risk assessments, ergonomic evaluations, industrial hygiene assessments, and safety observations. This includes identifying hazards associated with material handling, powered industrial trucks, loading docks, conveyors, racking, storage systems, lifting, packaging, shipping and receiving activities, ensuring regulatory readiness and agency representation.
• Manage environmental programs applicable to warehouse operations, including hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste, universal waste, recycling, spill prevention, and chemical storage.
• Lead or support investigations of injuries, illnesses, near misses, property damage, vehicle incidents, spills, fires, and other EHS events.
• Develop and maintain warehouse emergency response plans including the support of emergency drills, coordinating with site emergency response team and ensuring that emergency equipment is available, inspected, maintained and accessible.
• Manage the warehouse safety training program to include developing and delivering EHS training for all warehouse functions.

Bachelor’s degree (EHS related, Engineering) plus 5+ years of EHS related experience or master’s degree plus 3 years of EHS related experience. EHS or engineering professional certification is preferred but not required.

Working experience in implementing EHS regulations, conducting incident investigations, interacting with regulatory agencies and external organizations and managing cross functional teams.

Ability to establish measurable…