EHS Engineer

Job Description

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Job title: EHS Risk Reduction Project Lead / Manufacturing Process Engineer

Location:
Warren, MI

Site visits roughly quarterly within Southeastern Michigan (Warren to Flint, potentially Factory Zero in Detroit

52 Weeks contract with high possibility of extension based on client business need.

1st Shift

Our client is seeking an EHS Risk Reduction Project Lead to help identify high-consequence occupational safety risks early, enable effective controls, and scale proven solutions across facilities, processes, equipment, and emerging technologies.

In this role, you will lead cross-functional projects that translate field insight, operational learning, data, and design-in safety principles into practical engineering solutions. You will work at the intersection of workplace safety, manufacturing and facilities engineering, operations, and technology to reduce risk before exposure occurs.

About the Team:

Advanced Risk Mitigation helps the client focus resources on the risks that matter most, where targeted intervention can have the greatest impact on people, operations, and the business.

The team combines risk engineering, design-in safety, field insight, data, and emerging capabilities such as automation, computer vision, and artificial intelligence to develop practical controls and scalable standards.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Lead risk-reduction projects from problem definition and prioritization through pilot, implementation, validation, and sustainment.
• Partner with manufacturing, facilities, engineering, site safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, skilled trades, suppliers, and other stakeholders to identify and reduce risk.
• Apply design-in safety principles during planning, risk assessment, design review, commissioning, start-up, and final-location verification.
• Facilitate hazard analyses and risk assessments; document hazards, required controls, residual risk, and corrective actions.
• Translate risk findings, field observations, incident learnings, user feedback, and operational data into controls, standard work, specifications, and upstream design improvements.
• Track risks, dependencies, decisions, and corrective actions to closure; escalate unresolved high-risk issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging capabilities—including AI, computer vision, automation, analytics, wearables, and low-code tools—to improve risk identification, control effectiveness, or decision quality.
• Create concise technical documentation, leadership updates, training materials, and adoption plans that support sustainment.
• Share proven practices across the client to improve standards, tools, and risk-reduction methods.

Your

Skills and Abilities

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• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, environmental health, manufacturing, or a related technical discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Experience leading projects, continuous-improvement efforts, or technical implementations in safety, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, or operations.
• Ability to convert ambiguous problems into structured plans, priorities, decisions, and implementable outcomes.
• Experience with risk assessments, hazard analyses, design reviews, corrective-action plans, or control verification.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk to operators, engineers,…