Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Join Aztalan Bio as an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager and play a key leadership role in supporting a growing, innovative biorefinery in Johnson Creek, WI. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, PTO, sick time, and more. In this role, you will lead the facility's environmental, health, and safety programs, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements while fostering a culture of safety and continuous improvement. You will oversee EHS policies, training, audits, incident investigations, environmental permitting, and reporting, while partnering with leadership and employees to create a safe, healthy, and sustainable workplace. 

 

Aztalan Bio offers a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and work-life balance. Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 
• 401(k) with Company Match 
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Sick Time 
• Paid Holidays 
• Company-Paid Life and Disability Insurance 
• Quarterly Bonus
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish and communicate EHS goals, develop strategies and tactics to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. 
• Develop and maintain comprehensive written safety standards, policies, procedures, and guidelines that align with industry regulations and best practices.
• Regularly monitor and update leadership of changing EHS requirements, update safety practices and documentation to reflect changes in regulations, industry best practices, and company requirements.
• Design and implement training programs to educate employees on safety standards, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Responsible for monitoring and ensuring compliance with governmental regulations related to the following areas: Title five air permit, Wastewater, Ground water, and Storm water.
• Manage the facility leadership & employee safety programs, including the plant safety committee, safety awareness and incentive programs.
• Conduct regular EHS inspections and audits.
• Oversee site incident and injury reporting, investigation, and recordkeeping. Assist in the management of worker’s compensation claims and the Return-to-Work program.
• Manage the site EHS corrective and preventive actions to ensure timely follow-up and implementation.
• Ensure the timely completion of all required safety, environmental and sustainability reporting to external agencies. Maintain the site EHS recordkeeping program.
• Evaluate and procure safety equipment as needed.

 

About Aztalan Bio

Aztalan Bio is part of ClonBio Group, a family-owned global leader in grain biorefining. Our Jefferson, WI facility is the largest ethanol plant in the state, processing up to 50 million bushels of locally grown corn each year to produce ethanol, corn oil, distillers grains, bran, and germ.

Our sister facility, Pannonia Bio in Hungary, is one of the most advanced biorefineries in the world. Aztalan Bio is undergoing a multi-year, multi-hundred-million-dollar transformation modeled on this success—bringing world-class innovation and technology to Wisconsin. ClonBio invests heavily in its people, with engineers and scientists from 23 countries across five continents supporting our long-term growth.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Safety, Environment, or other related field; Master’s degree preferred. 
• Current compliance with required ongoing EHS training, minimum 40 hours per year.
• A minimum of five years of EHS experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment. 
• Working knowledge of computers is necessary to work with spreadsheets, word processing, and email; including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Excellent written and verbal skills will be required to communicate with all levels of the facility and company.
• Ability to gather, comprehend and screen/analyze information in a variety of media (regulations, bulletins, research, etc.) and disseminate to management, supervisors, employees, etc. in suitable ways such as training, memos, reports, presentations, etc.
• Ability to assess and investigate situations in order to recommend corrections or improvements to site systems and environment based on interpretation of standards.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

• Primary work environment is an office setting, however occasionally will enter the plant environment.
• When in the plant environment, employee may be exposed to moderate to high noise levels, moving mechanical parts and/or to chemicals used in the process.
• Humid conditions and outdoor weather conditions including extreme heat and cold, possible dusty, damp, or wet conditions. 
• Personal Protective Equipment such as safety glasses, steel toed boots, flame resistant clothing and hearing protection may be required.
• Regularly required to walk, sit, talk and listen.
• Mostly sedentary, some light lifting of files, supplies or equipment is required.
• The employee will be required to do some walking/climbing stairs and occasional use of ladders.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Aztalan Bio, LLC is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws and will not be discriminated against.