Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

The Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager, based at the Stanhope site, will lead the development and execution of EHS programs across the company's manufacturing plants. This role is responsible for driving measurable improvements in safety culture, reducing employee injuries and incidents, maintaining regulatory compliance, and ensuring that environmental and industrial hygiene risks are identified and effectively controlled. The EHS Manager will partner with plant leadership, employees, third-party consultants, and regulatory agencies to promote proactive risk management and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Safety Culture and Performance: Develop and implement strategies that strengthen employee engagement, accountability, hazard awareness, and safe work practices. Establish goals and leading and lagging indicators to reduce injuries, illnesses, near misses, and other incidents.
• EHS Management Systems: Maintain and continuously improve policies, procedures, standards, and programs aligned with applicable requirements and recognized industry practices.
• Incident Prevention and Investigation: Lead or support investigations of injuries, illnesses, near misses, spills, and other significant events. Ensure root causes are identified, corrective and preventive actions are assigned, and actions are completed and verified for effectiveness.
• Regulatory Compliance Audits: Conduct routine plant audits and assessments to verify compliance with OSHA, EPA, state, and local laws, regulations, permits, and company requirements. Document findings, prioritize risk, and track corrective actions through closure.
• Environmental Compliance: Oversee qualified environmental consultants responsible for plant permits, plans, reporting, monitoring, and renewals, including air emissions, stormwater, wastewater, hazardous and nonhazardous waste, and other applicable environmental programs.
• Industrial Hygiene: Plan and oversee third-party industrial hygiene testing and exposure assessments, including sampling for airborne contaminants, noise, and other workplace hazards. Interpret results and implement required corrective actions, with preference for feasible engineering controls before administrative controls or personal protective equipment.
• Risk Assessment and Controls: Facilitate hazard assessments, job safety analyses, management-of-change reviews, and other risk-reduction activities. Partner with Engineering, Operations, and Maintenance to design and implement sustainable engineering solutions.
• Training and Communication: Develop, coordinate, and deliver required EHS training. Communicate regulatory changes, lessons learned, performance trends, and expectations to leaders and employees.
• Regulatory and Consultant Interface: Serve as a primary contact for regulatory inspections and EHS consultants. Coordinate responses, documentation, corrective actions, and follow-up commitments.
• Recordkeeping and Reporting: Maintain accurate EHS records and regulatory documentation, including OSHA recordkeeping, permits, inspection records, monitoring data, training records, and required agency submissions.
• Emergency Preparedness: Support the development, testing, and improvement of emergency response plans, drills, spill prevention and response procedures, and site-specific contingency plans.
• Leadership Partnership: Advise plant and corporate leaders on EHS risks, priorities, capital needs, and compliance obligations. Coach supervisors and managers to visibly lead safety and environmental performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution; a degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or a closely related field is preferred.
• Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or another appropriate and relevant EHS credential.
• Solid working knowledge of federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations, including requirements applicable to air, stormwater, wastewater, and waste management.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations and practical experience applying requirements in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading safety improvement initiatives and reducing workplace injuries and incidents.
• Experience managing environmental permits and third-party environmental consultants.
• Experience coordinating industrial hygiene assessments and implementing corrective actions, including engineering controls.
• Ability to conduct effective compliance audits, clearly document findings, assess risk, and drive corrective actions to timely closure.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work effectively with employees at all organizational levels and to balance regulatory requirements with practical operating needs.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting multiple manufacturing sites or a complex industrial operation.
• Knowledge of environmental management systems, behavior-based safety, ergonomics, machine safety, lockout/tagout, confined space, respiratory protection, hazard communication, and contractor safety.
• Experience using EHS data systems and applying trend analysis to prioritize risk-reduction initiatives.
• Experience evaluating EHS-related capital projects and developing technically sound business cases for risk reduction.

Core Competencies

• Visible and credible EHS leadership
• Collaborative influence and coaching
• Regulatory and technical judgment
• Root-cause analysis and problem solving
• Bias for action and disciplined follow-through
• Clear communication and effective training
• Data-driven continuous improvement
• High integrity and sound decision-making

Work Location and Travel

This position is based at the Stanhope, New Jersey site and requires regular presence in manufacturing environments. Periodic travel to other plant locations is expected to conduct audits, support improvement initiatives, and address compliance or incident-related needs. The role may require the use of personal protective equipment and occasional response outside normal business hours when significant EHS events occur.

The base salary anticipated is $120k-$140k for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, actual compensation may vary and will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to, the applicant’s skills, qualifications, experience, and other job-related factors. Isolatek International reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. An employee may also be eligible for annual discretionary incentive compensation based on company and personal performance.

Isolatek offers a wide range of employee benefits, including health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, sick leave, vacation, and 401(k), in addition to other benefits.

This job description is not intended to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Isolatek is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor. No phone calls, please.