EHS Manager

EHS Manager

At DuPont, we are working on things that matter, whether it's providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world.

DuPont™ PPC™ - located in the Greater Chicago/Milwaukee region - is our flagship packaging manufacturing facility. Operating 35 extrusion lines around the clock, the site produces commodity plastic bags, converted pouches and bags, as well as monolayer and coextruded films.

If you would like to be part of a premier multi-industrial company delivering sustainable solutions with real purpose and value, where collaborative spirit and diversity of thought are valued, then DuPont is the company for you!

Our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter!

Have the opportunity to chart your own course, challenge yourself, and acquire new capabilities to build a rewarding and fulfilling career. We reward employees with competitive pay and incentives that recognize skills, competencies, and contributions to business results.

Get to experience a collaborative environment where teamwork is celebrated, flexibility enhances balance, and an inclusive atmosphere is welcoming to all.

Get to know our purpose and make it yours by bringing innovations to market that improve the world, advancing sustainability, and giving back to the communities in which we work and live.

Our operations team is essential to delivering the innovative and life-saving products we make for our customers. We depend on team members to actively engage in continuously improving our operations while we provide growth and development to build their skills and careers. Operational excellence unleashes the energy, creativity, collaboration, tools, technology, and training that enable our people to perform at their best.

The PPC EHS Leader is an experienced site leadership role responsible for protecting people, the environment, the surrounding community, and business continuity across PPC's 24/7 blown-film extrusion and converting operations. Reporting to the Plant Manager and serving on the Plant Management Team, this leader owns the site Environmental, Health and Safety management system; ensures compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and DuPont requirements; and partners with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and employees to identify and eliminate risk, strengthen EHS culture, and continuously improve performance.

Embraces and role models DuPont Core Values; builds a culture in which every employee and contractor is empowered to identify hazards, stop work when conditions are unsafe, and take ownership for EHS performance.

Leads, develops, and retains the site EHS team and competency networks; establishes clear expectations, provides coaching and technical guidance, and builds EHS capability among leaders, supervisors, safety committees, and frontline employees.

Owns, maintains, and continuously improves the site EHS management system, compliance calendar, legal register, policies, procedures, records, and governance routines; supports alignment with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 principles and DuPont standards.

Ensures compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA, DOT, fire code, workers' compensation, environmental permit, and state/local requirements; monitors regulatory changes and serves as the primary site interface for inspections, reporting, and agency interactions.

Establishes EHS strategy, annual objectives, and leading and lagging metrics; analyzes trends such as serious-injury potential, recordable and lost-time incidents, near misses, corrective-action closure, training completion, audit findings, environmental events, waste, water, and emissions.

Leads site risk-management processes, including EHS reviews for capital projects and change management; job hazard analyses, ergonomic assessments, industrial hygiene, machine safety, LOTO, electrical safety, work at height, confined space, hot work, powered industrial trucks, chemical safety, and PPE selection.

Leads incident and near-miss reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, lessons learned, and corrective/preventive action verification; partners with HR and medical providers on injury case management, workers' compensation, and effective return-to-work programs.

Strengthens contractor safety through prequalification, onboarding, permit-to-work controls, field oversight, performance review, and disciplined follow-up for construction, maintenance, sanitation, logistics, and other contracted services.

Directs environmental compliance and stewardship programs, including air, water, stormwater, waste, spill prevention and response, chemical management, emergency planning, required reporting, pollution prevention, and site sustainability initiatives.

Develops and delivers an effective EHS training and communication system, including new-hire orientation, supervisor capability, emergency response, hazard communication, LOTO, fire prevention, forklift safety, PPE, ergonomics, and other required programs; maintains accurate training records.

Leads internal and corporate audits, regulatory inspections, and emergency preparedness drills; ensures readiness, timely closure of findings, and verification that actions are effective and sustained.

Drives continuous improvement through Gemba walks, leader standard work, tiered accountability, safety Kaizen, A3, 5 Why, and other structured problem-solving methods; benchmarks and shares best practices across the DuPont network.

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant EHS, manufacturing, engineering, operations, industrial hygiene, environmental, occupational health, or continuous-improvement experience; experience in plastics, flexible packaging, chemical processing, or another 24/7 manufacturing environment preferred.

• 2 years of direct people leadership experience or demonstrated leadership of cross-functional EHS programs, technical networks, and complex improvement initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience owning or substantially supporting regulatory compliance, environmental permits, EHS audits/inspections, incident investigations, risk assessments, emergency response, contractor safety, and corrective-action systems.

• Working knowledge of OSHA and EPA requirements, workers' compensation and return-to-work practices, and recognized EHS management-system principles; practical experience with ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to use data, influence at all organizational levels, manage multiple priorities independently, and translate complex requirements into practical operating controls.

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent relevant manufacturing and EHS experience considered.

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), or comparable certification preferred.

• ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 Lead Auditor, OSHA 30-Hour, incident-investigation, or Lean/Six Sigma certification preferred.

• Strong written and verbal communication, facilitation, coaching, organization, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office/data-analysis skills; English/Spanish bilingual capability is preferred.