EHS Manager

EHS Manager Opportunity at Glanbia

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey !

The Opportunity

The EHS Manager provides strategic leadership and oversight for environmental, health, and safety programs across multiple manufacturing sites and R&D facilities. This role ensures compliance with complex federal, state, and local regulations, manages high-impact risk mitigation initiatives, and drives continuous improvement in safety culture. The position serves as a regulatory subject matter expert, leads multi-site EHS teams, and partners with senior leadership to align safety and environmental strategies with corporate objectives. The position oversees safety programs impacting approximately 300 employees.

Key Responsibilities

• Regulatory subject matter expert and point of contact for environmental, health, and safety programs for Twin Falls Cheese Plant, Blackfoot Cheese Plant, Central Lab, Cheese Innovation Center, and Idaho HQ Office.
• Active participation and/or ownership of Plant Pillars, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Responsible for disseminating new safety and environmental regulations to plant managers and staff.
• Responsible for development, implementation, and continuation of uniform safety and environmental documentation and training programs.
• Develop and maintain industrial hygiene programs (exposure assessments, ventilation/engineering controls, PPE selection, fit testing, medical surveillance, and IH sampling plans).
• Maintains Plant Compliance Calendars.
• Provide strategic guidance to ensure compliance with OSHA regulations. Oversees and audits OSHA plant logs.
• Take injured employees to the hospital when injured.
• Conducts and oversees root cause analysis investigations.
• Responsible all environmental reporting including Tier II, Form R, stormwater inspections/reporting, etc.
• Ensure overall compliance with all environmental laws, standards, and regulations, including existing and pending site permits (CAA, NPDES, Local Ordinances, etc.).
• Ensures compliance with all safety laws, standards, regulations, and policies (OSHA etc.).
• Manage compliance projects at GN Dairy sites as needed and at the direction of the Senior EHS Manager.
• Develop all environmental reports required by permits including SARA 312, SARA 313, CAA, CWA, RCRA, EPCRA, and Local Ordinances.
• Responsible for ensuring all waste generated from the facility is packaged, handled, transported, disposed of, and tracked in a manner that meets and/or exceeds Federal, State, and Local regulations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science/Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or related field.
• 5 or more years of progressive EHS experience in manufacturing; multi-site and/or food processing preferred.
• Demonstrated success influencing at multiple levels and leading cross functional initiatives with measurable risk reduction.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and handle multiply projects simultaneously.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Proficient in OSHA general industry standards and programs (e.g., LOTO, CSE, PIT, machine guarding, hazard communication, respiratory protection).
• Working knowledge of EPA programs (CAA, CWA/NPDES, RCRA, EPCRA/SARA, SPCC/SWPPP) and state/local requirements.
• Experience with industrial hygiene sampling/controls and incident investigation methodologies.
• Familiarity with PSM/RMP for ammonia refrigeration and contractor safety management (preferred).
• Strong command of EHS data systems, metrics, and reporting; advanced Excel/analytics skills a plus.
• Certifications (Preferred): CSP, CIH, CHMM, PE (Env), ISO 14001/45001 Lead Auditor, Six Sigma/Lean certification, OSHA 30 Hour, HAZWOPER 24/40.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: CSP, CIH, CHMM, PE (Env), ISO 14001/45001 Lead Auditor, Six Sigma/Lean certification, OSHA 30 Hour, HAZWOPER 24/40.

Typical Physical Activity

• Regularly involves talking or listening and the use of hands and fingers.
• Frequently involves sitting, standing and walking, and reaching with hands and arms.
• Occasionally involves tasting or smelling, stooping, crawling or kneeling and climbing or balancing.
• Must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 55 pounds.
• Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items, works with the fingers, and perceive attributes of objects and materials.
• Involves light physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities of a productive/technical nature.
• Specific vision requirements for this job include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less); distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point); depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships); ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).

Typical Environmental Conditions

• May be exposed to 85+ noise levels in which hearing protection will be needed.
• May work in areas with mechanical moving parts, poor lighting, and/or above ground with a danger of fall.
• May be exposed to air-contamination, toxic chemicals, wet/humid environment, extreme heat (non-weather), and outdoor weather conditions.

Where And How You Will Work

This opportunity will be based on site at our Twin Falls, Idaho facility. Some overnight travel is required, up to 25% by land and/or air.

What We Would Like to Offer You

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, generous family leave policy, health & dental plan, competitive salary, 401K.

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates, we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

At Glanbia, our culture celebrates individuality, knowing that together we are more.