Position Overview

The Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the company's environmental, health, and safety programs within a lean manufacturing environment. This role ensures compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements while fostering a proactive, behavior-based safety culture through effective training, employee engagement, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Areas of Focus

The EHS Director will provide strategic leadership in environmental, health, and safety initiatives by promoting a culture of safety, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. This individual will demonstrate strong professional leadership through active involvement in the EHS field, while also serving as a positive representative of the organization within the local community. The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous improvement, and the development of sustainable safety and environmental programs that support business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the EHS programs to ensure a safe environment consistent with regulatory, environmental, and company requirements and needs

• Promotes the company mission, philosophy, goals, and objectives by formulating plans, procedures, and objectives for EHS programs and by evaluating effectiveness of the program

• Creates and maintains a work environment that encourages open communication and positive employee relations to establish a climate of openness and trust

• Seeks out opportunities for staff involvement and innovation to promote employee creativity and to generate ideas to improve functions, devise solutions, and implement plans

• Oversee, operation and maintenance of water treatment and wastewater equipment, ensuring compliance with state and federal environmental protection limits

• Manages personnel responsible for inspecting and maintaining air pollution control equipment

• Prepares reports and maintains logs for water treatment systems on meter readings, tests, chemical and equipment usage, and all other record-keeping requirements

• Build a cohesive team with the skills necessary to successfully meet the departmental/company objectives and strategies

• Delivers training information in a formal classroom setting and conducts on-the-job training on various safety and environmental programs to all required facility personnel.

• Keeps various safety and environmental records and logbooks up to date

• Works with the medical department to follow workers’ compensation cases

• Is required to assist with cost-control efforts, and participate in manufacturing improvement committees, and the like

• Interfaces with OSHA, and various environmental programs inspectors

• Study, plan and formulate new and revised safety programs, JSA’s, and rules: prepare recommendations and implement for conformance

• Responsible for effective application of safety and environmental policies and practices and to investigate and eliminate hazardous conditions and unsafe practices including non-routine work program

• Through safety and environmental training sessions, meetings, manuals, bulletins, films, etc., keep supervisory personnel apprised of hazardous conditions and practices, recommend injury prevention measures

• Conducts industrial hygiene studies that may involve exposure to dust, fumes, mists, gases, vapors, noise, heat, and cold

• Assesses new developments in the safety and environmental fields that may have application to the company's operations

• Keeps appraised of developments in federal and state safety and applicable environmental laws likely to affect the company

• Coordinates safety and industrial hygiene to obtain optimum service with insurance carriers

• Investigates serious injuries/incidents in conjunction with line and staff personnel, Human Resources and Occupational Health Nurse and ensures corrective measures are implemented.

• Assists line and staff management to understand OSHA regulations and standards, including guidance on handling OSHA compliance, inspections and citations

• Manages and maintains appropriate air, water, and waste permitting requirements

• Supervises EHS departmental staff, hourly and salaried.

• Evaluates performance, provides feedback, and completes performance reviews

• Supervises and trains light technical and hourly personnel in performing supporting tasks

• Manages the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous waste generated at the facility to comply with local, State, and Federal requirements.

• Completes regulatory required reporting in the areas of air, water, waste, hazardous material, and health and safety

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety, or related field or equivalent experience

• 10-12 years’ experience

• Working knowledge of safety regulations, OSHA, EPA, hazardous materials, and emergency preparedness

• Travel to other company locations or for training purposes.

• Proficient with Microsoft Word Excel, PowerPoint and Access

• Effective written and verbal communication skills are essential

• Required to be able to stand, sit, walk, and climb ladders to perform inspections of the facility and work in an office and manufacturing environment.

• Must be capable of wearing respiratory protection. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual Spanish

• CSP and/or CIH

• First aid/CPR instructor

• Forklift instructor certified

• Successful completion of, and hold certificates in, courses such as hazmat technician and emergency responder, water treatment operation, and other safety and environmental topics

Salary- $170k-$190k base + bonus potential