About the Role
As a CBRE Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Sr. Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing a portfolio of laboratories and other client facilities, supporting Lab, Facilities Management, and Engineering teams with a primary focus on safe, compliant, and efficient operations. This role serves as a key liaison with the client's EHS organization and ensures consistent alignment with client standards and applicable regulatory safety requirements across all assigned facilities and labs.
You will be accountable for the review, approval, and support of operating procedures requiring EHS authorization, partnering closely with operational teams to identify, assess, and mitigate risk across the portfolio. You will collaborate with site and regional operations to support Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs), Permit-Required Confined Space activities, and other safety-critical work, proactively identifying hazards and implementing effective, scalable controls.
This position is part of the broader EHS function, which develops and executes programs and procedures designed to protect employees, clients, and surrounding communities. The EHS Sr. Manager acts as a trusted advisor for the assigned portfolio of labs and other facilities, providing subject matter expertise and collaborative guidance to enable safe, compliant, and high-performing operations.
What You'll Do
• Promote a positive and proactive culture to influence stakeholders, and to ensure compliance.
• Develop, implement, and review playbooks, and procedures. Ensure EHS initiatives drive program consistency and efficiency.
• Manage initiatives to meet regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements.
• Support diverse laboratory environments, including electrical, R&D, data processing, and access-controlled labs, ensuring hazards are identified and effectively controlled.
• Track operational and safety risks. Develop and manage complex strategic risk management strategies to avoid potential incidents.
• Respond to and monitor injury, illness, and incident reports. Identify root causes and corrective and preventative measures to reduce risk.
• Work with high-profile stakeholders to identify potential concerns. Troubleshoot and suggest solutions.
• Monitor EHS regulatory compliance within the account. Execute strategic solutions that improve and maintain compliance as required.
• Ensure the assigned portfolio is meeting key performance indicators.
• Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how your own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
• Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
• Improve and change existing methods, processes and standards within job discipline.
What You'll Need
• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
• Additional certifications, such as CIH or CSP, are desirable.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Google products and Chromebook devices. Examples include Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc.
• Ability to use AI tools for analysis and efficiency and research capabilities
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Proven expertise in laboratory safety programs, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, chemical hygiene, hazardous materials management, contractor safety, and compliant waste handling and disposal.
• Strong experience in high risk EHS program management, including Confined Space, LOTO, Work at Heights, and Electrical Safety.
• Experience conducting laboratory and facility audits, performing risk assessments, and driving corrective action planning through completion.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to serve as a trusted advisor in complex or sensitive situations and reinforce a strong safety culture.
• Proven ability to influence others and improve quality, compliance, and operational effectiveness without direct authority.
• Experience with Benchmark Gensuite EHS Management system or other global, comprehensive information management system application.
• Knowledge of Federal OSHA and WISHA.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the USA without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Washington Residents: CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for this position is $130,000 annually and the maximum salary for the EHS Lab Manager position is $145,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. Successful candidates will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on CBRE's applicable benefit program. This role will provide the following benefits: 401(K), Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, and Vision insurance.
