Oriented EHS Manager

Job details:

Excellent benefits, annual bonus, leadership development

Salary: $115,000 - $145,000 per year

We are a large, privately held beverage manufacturing and distribution organization with operations across multiple U.S. markets. Our business combines high-volume manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and distribution, creating a complex, fast-paced operating environment with a strong focus on safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

We’re looking for an experienced Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) leader to drive safety, environmental compliance, and risk reduction across a fast-paced manufacturing and distribution operation. This is a highly visible role working directly with facility and operational leadership. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the site's EHS strategy, influence how work gets done, and build programs that protect employees while supporting a high-performing operation.

The right person will be comfortable moving between the plant floor, warehouse, leadership meetings, and regulatory requirements—someone who can identify risk, develop practical solutions, and get people at every level of the organization engaged in safety.

• Stability
• Career mobility
• Leadership development
• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) company match, paid time off, annual incentive opportunity, and an educational assistance program

In addition, this is an opportunity to join one of the largest and most established beverage manufacturing and distribution organizations in North America. You'll be part of a large-scale operation where EHS is viewed as a critical business function and where you'll have the visibility and resources to make a measurable impact.

• Lead the site's Environmental, Health & Safety strategy across manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, and fleet operations.
• Partner with operational leaders to reduce workplace injuries, vehicle incidents, environmental risk, and overall EHS exposure.
• Serve as a key resource for OSHA, EPA, DOT, RCRA, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead facility audits, inspections, risk assessments, incident investigations, corrective actions, and compliance initiatives.
• Manage environmental programs involving wastewater, stormwater, hazardous materials, ammonia, asbestos, waste management, and resource conservation.
• Analyze safety trends, leading indicators, scorecards, and operational data to identify risks before they become incidents.
• Develop practical mitigation and contingency plans for identified operational and environmental risks.
• Work directly with employees and leadership to strengthen safety awareness, accountability, and engagement throughout the operation.
• Develop and deliver EHS training for frontline employees, supervisors, managers, and facility leadership.
• Support workers' compensation, injury management, and return-to-work initiatives.
• Coordinate environmental permitting, regulatory reporting, and interactions with government agencies.
• Lead emergency preparedness, response planning, and crisis-management activities.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives that make the operation safer, more compliant, and more effective.

• 6+ years of progressive EHS experience within manufacturing, distribution, logistics, food & beverage, or another complex industrial environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering, Risk Management, or a related discipline preferred.
• Candidates without a bachelor's degree may be considered with 9+ years of directly related EHS experience.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, RCRA, environmental…