EHS Manager

Description

ABOUT THE POSITION: Own environmental compliance, regulatory permitting, hazardous waste management, and employee safety performance for the Poca, Princeton, and Tazewell facilities. Serve as the company's primary representative to EPA, OSHA, state environmental agencies, and insurance carriers while ensuring all permits, reports, manifests, inspections, and compliance obligations are accurately maintained and completed. Champion a strong safety culture through communication, coaching, and employee engagement.


Key Deliverables

• Maintains environmental, health, and safety compliance across the Poca, Princeton, and Tazewell facilities.
• Owns environmental permitting, regulatory reporting, hazardous waste management, and agency compliance requirements.
• Identifies and mitigates safety, health, and environmental risks through audits, inspections, training, and corrective actions.
• Establishes inspection, audit, and compliance verification processes and ensures site leadership executes them consistently.
• Serves as the primary company representative during regulatory inspections, audits, investigations, and compliance reviews.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Provide environmental, health, and safety leadership and compliance oversight for the Poca, WV; Princeton, WV; and Tazewell, VA manufacturing facilities.
• Design and maintain company policies adhering to local, state, and federal environmental, health, and safety regulations. Keep abreast of any changes to environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations that impact the company, and implement company policies accordingly.
• Develop, implement, and maintain facility-wide safety programs, policies, and procedures.
• Conduct risk assessments, job hazard analyses (JHAs), and machine-specific safety evaluations.
• Oversee lockout/tagout (LOTO), machine guarding, confined space, hot work, and fall-protection programs.
• Manage safety training for all employees, including new-hire orientation and annual refreshers.
• Responsible for identifying chemical hazards and hazardous workplace conditions. Maintain a current inventory and Material Safety Data Sheet for all chemical hazards on the property. Take corrective action to eliminate, contain, or minimize the hazards, or coordinate the removal of physical, biological, and chemical hazards.
• Manage all environmental permits, registrations, required reports, agency submissions, and associated fees; ensure ongoing compliance with permit conditions and regulatory requirements.
• Administer hazardous waste programs, including waste characterization, storage, labeling, manifest management, transporter/disposal vendor coordination, record retention, and regulatory compliance.
• Involved in the design and development of facilities, work areas, and work procedures, and make environmental, health, and safety recommendations accordingly.
• Serve as the primary company representative during inspections, audits, investigations, and inquiries conducted by EPA, OSHA, state environmental agencies, fire marshals, and other regulatory authorities. Coordinate responses to findings, corrective actions, and regulatory correspondence.
• Manage air quality compliance programs, including emissions inventories, permit reporting, recordkeeping, stack testing coordination, and compliance with applicable air permits.
• Develop and maintain stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPP), spill prevention programs, and water compliance documentation as required.
• Coordinate environmental sampling, monitoring, inspections, and reporting activities related to stormwater, wastewater, and industrial discharge requirements.
• Review and monitor contractor activities to ensure compliance with facility environmental, health, and safety requirements.
• Ensure complete and thorough accident investigation, accurate recording of the details, and implementation of corrective action for all work-related injuries and illnesses.
• Maintain employees' safety & environmental training records. Ensure compliance with OSHA requirements.
• Conduct environmental and safety compliance audits and lead site participation during regulatory inspections, agency audits, and insurance reviews.
• Maintain environmental compliance calendars and ensure timely completion of permit renewals, required inspections, sampling activities, regulatory reporting, employee training, and associated fee payments.
• Oversee the Safety Committee and provide guidance to ensure employee engagement
• Provide assistance or perform other duties as assigned.

To be successful in this role, your experience and competencies are:

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Safety, Occupational Safety and Health, or related field required.
• 5+ years experience in a managerial or technical position in a manufacturing environment including environmental permitting, hazardous waste management, regulatory inspections, and OSHA compliance.
• Ability to maintain the highly confidential nature of medical information.
• Ability to work well with others, exercise sound judgment and solve problems, work independently and effectively manage workload, and work well under pressure.
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills, and be resourceful, well-organized, meticulous, and accurate.
• Strong knowledge of OSHA regulations and environmental compliance requirements.
• Experience with incident investigation and root-cause analysis methodologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and training skills.

Our Culture and Values

• Employees that become part of Astec embody the values below throughout their work.
• Continuous devotion to meeting the needs of our customers
• Honesty and integrity in all aspects of business
• Respect for all individuals
• Preserving entrepreneurial spirit and innovation
• Safety, quality and productivity as means to ensure success

• Travel Requirements:
• Variable local travel based on business and compliance needs.
• This position supports the Princeton, WV; Poca, WV; and Tazewell, VA facilities.
• Princeton serves as the primary work location. Regular travel to support and audit EHS programs at other facilities is expected; however, travel frequency will vary based on operational performance, compliance requirements, project activity, incident investigations, and regulatory needs.
• The successful candidate is expected to develop sustainable site-level ownership of EHS programs, reducing the need for routine travel through effective training, accountability, and leadership engagement.