EHS Specialist

The EHS Specialist owns environmental, health, and safety compliance for The Goodkind Co.'s manufacturing operations. The primary focus of this role is managing our state and federal environmental compliance obligations end to end: maintaining permits and registrations, keeping the required logs and records, collecting and submitting required samples and data, and filing accurate reports on time with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and local authorities.

The role also administers our occupational safety program, including OSHA recordkeeping, hazard communication, and employee training.

This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role with facility-wide reach. The EHS Specialist works on the production floor and in the warehouse as much as at a desk, partnering with Production, Process Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and HR to make sure compliance is built into how we operate rather than checked after the fact. The ideal candidate has done this work before at a manufacturing site, knows which agency wants which report and when, and keeps records that would stand up to an inspection we did not know was coming.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Quality.

Founded in 2010 and based in the Austin area, Goodkind is a leading manufacturer of clean personal care and beauty products. Goodkind specializes in deodorant, skincare, and facial care products. The company has extensive experience in formulation and manufacturing and can develop products according to a variety of standards and guidelines, from consumer organizations such as Ecocert and EWG to retailers such as Target and Sephora.

Goodkind is a B Corporation. As such, we balance purpose and profit, considering the impact of decisions across associates, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. Goodkind believes that this multi-stakeholder approach creates optimal value for each stakeholder while leaving the world a better place.

• Serve as the facility's primary point of contact and subject-matter owner for environmental compliance with TCEQ, EPA, and local authorities, including inspections, information requests, and agency correspondence.
• Maintain the facility's environmental permit and registration inventory, including the industrial wastewater discharge (pretreatment) permit, air authorizations (permits by rule or standard permits as applicable), stormwater coverage under the TPDES Multi-Sector General Permit, and hazardous waste generator registrations. Track renewal dates, conditions, and limits, and lead renewals and modifications well ahead of deadlines.
• Own the compliance calendar: know every required log, sample, inspection, and report, its frequency, its due date, and the agency it goes to, and ensure nothing is missed.
• Manage industrial wastewater compliance, including sampling schedules, chain of custody with the contract lab, review of lab results against permit limits, and preparation and submission of Discharge Monitoring Reports and any required exceedance notifications. Investigate exceedances to root cause and drive corrective actions with Production and Process Engineering.
• Manage hazardous, non-hazardous, universal, and used-oil waste programs: waste determinations and profiling, container labeling and accumulation-area inspections, manifests (e-Manifest), generator status tracking against monthly accumulation thresholds, and annual waste reporting to TCEQ.
• Prepare and submit recurring regulatory reports, including Tier II hazardous chemical inventory reports (EPCRA Section 312), Toxics Release Inventory (EPCRA Section 313) where…