Manager, Environmental Health and Safety

- ** Comprehensive Family Benefits:
** Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.

- ** Support for Parents:
** We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.

- ** Early Access:
** Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment.
* Partner with operations leadership to integrate safety and compliance into daily business decisions and operating processes.
* Provide EHS guidance and technical support to Airgas facilities throughout the assigned geography, including production/fill plants, branches, distribution operations, and other specialized facilities.
* Conduct regular field visits, observations, assessments, and leadership engagements to identify hazards, operational risk, and opportunities for improvement.
* Guide and support investigations involving injuries, vehicle incidents, property damage, releases, fires, near misses, and other significant events.
* Ensure investigations identify underlying causes and organizational contributors and result in effective corrective and preventive actions.  
* Monitor safety and compliance performance, identify trends, and develop targeted risk-reduction strategies.
* Support compliance with applicable OSHA, Cal/OSHA, DOT, EPA, state and local environmental requirements, and Airgas policies and procedures.
* Provide technical guidance related to industrial gas operations, material handling, powered industrial trucks, cylinder handling, driver safety, hazardous materials, emergency preparedness, and other operational risks.
* Support environmental compliance programs, including hazardous materials, hazardous waste, air, stormwater, and applicable local regulatory requirements.
* Ensure and facilitate timely completion and verification of corrective actions resulting from incidents, audits, inspections, and compliance assessments.
* Develop and deliver effective safety communications, training, stand-downs, and other engagement activities.
* Promote proactive reporting, learning from near misses and Good Catches, and meaningful associate involvement in risk reduction.
* Nurture and strengthen working relationships across Operations, Human Resources, Fleet, Distribution, Production, Quality, and other functional groups.
* Support regulatory inspections, agency inquiries, audits, and other compliance activities as necessary.
* Participate in regional EHS initiatives and continuously improve systems, processes, and tools that make safety and compliance more effective and sustainable.
* Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health & Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
* Demonstrated professional experience in environmental, health, safety, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, or industrial operations.
* Working knowledge of OSHA, Cal/OSHA and other applicable federal, state, and local EHS regulations.
* Demonstrated ability to investigate incidents, evaluate risk, identify root and contributing causes, and develop effective corrective actions.
* Strong leadership, communication, coaching, and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to influence operational leaders and frontline associates without relying solely on positional authority.
* Ability and willingness to spend significant time in operating environments and engage directly with employees performing the work.
* Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across numerous locations.
* Ability to travel regularly throughout the assigned area and periodically elsewhere within the West Region.
* Applicants must have a valid driver's license.
* Candidates must have valid employment authorization in the U.S. and must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.
* Previous EHS leadership or people-management experience.
* Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing, distribution, transportation, chemical, industrial gas, or similarly regulated operations.
* Experience with DOT/FMCSA transportation safety and hazardous materials regulations.
* Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, CHMM, CIH, or equivalent.
* Experience working with California-specific environmental and occupational safety requirements.
* The successful EHS Manager will be expected to operate as a business partner - not simply a compliance resource. This individual should be…