EH&S Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Advantic Building Group is a design-build structural solutions company focused on building smarter, lighter, and more efficient infrastructure. We design, fabricate, and install systems using Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) — a high-performance material that helps our partners move faster, build safer, and reduce long-term impact across mission-critical and industrial environments.

But what truly sets Advantic apart isn’t just what we build — it’s  how we work and  who we work with.

We value individuals who are curious, accountable, and willing to lean in when things get challenging. At Advantic, culture isn’t a poster on the wall — it’s lived out every day in how we collaborate, problem-solve, and support one another. If you’re looking for a place where your voice matters, your work has impact, and your growth is encouraged, you’ll feel at home here.

Advantic Building Group is seeking an experienced Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) professional to build, own, and continually improve our company-wide EH&S program. This role is responsible for protecting our people, maintaining compliance, and strengthening safe work practices across two manufacturing facilities and multiple customer project sites where ABG teams and subcontractors install structural systems.

This is a working leadership role. The right person will establish the strategy, systems, and metrics for a scalable EH&S function while also spending meaningful time on the manufacturing floor and at project sites—conducting inspections, coaching employees and leaders, investigating incidents, developing procedures, coordinating with site safety teams, and closing corrective actions. As ABG grows, this individual will help define and build the future EH&S team.

EH&S Program Leadership and Development

• Assess the current state of ABG's EH&S program and develop a prioritized roadmap for compliance, risk reduction, and continual improvement.
• Create, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, standards, forms, and recordkeeping systems appropriate for manufacturing and field installation operations.
• Establish clear EH&S responsibilities and operating rhythms for executives, managers, team leads, employees, and subcontractor partners.
• Develop annual goals, leading and lagging indicators, dashboards, and management-review processes that connect EH&S performance to business operations.
• Advise leadership on EH&S risks, regulatory developments, capital needs, staffing needs, and program priorities.
• Design the future EH&S organization and support the selection, onboarding, and development of additional EH&S personnel as company growth requires.

Regulatory and Customer Compliance

• Maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental, occupational health, and safety requirements, including OSHA and relevant EPA/state environmental regulations.
• Maintain required logs, permits, reports, training records, inspections, written programs, and regulatory submissions; coordinate responses to agency inquiries and inspections.
• Interpret customer, general-contractor, and project-specific safety requirements and ensure ABG plans, documentation, and field practices meet those requirements.
• Support customer prequalification, audits, insurance reviews, bids, and proposals by providing accurate EH&S data and program documentation.

Manufacturing Facility Safety

• Maintain a regular presence in both manufacturing facilities; perform inspections, observations, risk assessments, and task-level reviews with employees and team leads.
• Lead and improve programs involving machine guarding, lockout/tagout, powered industrial trucks, fall protection, electrical safety, hazardous materials, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, ergonomics, emergency response, housekeeping, and personal protective equipment, as applicable.
• Partner with Operations, Delivery, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, HR, and Maintenance to incorporate risk reduction into equipment purchases, facility changes, process design, work instructions, and daily management.
• Coordinate industrial hygiene, environmental sampling, occupational-health evaluations, and external technical resources when needed.

Project and Installation Site Safety

• Travel 25% of the time to customer project sites to assess conditions, verify compliance, coach field teams, and support project leadership.
• Develop or review site-specific safety plans, job hazard analyses, pre-task plans, permits, emergency plans, and other required project documentation.
• Coordinate closely with general-contractor, vendor, customer, and site safety representatives; represent ABG professionally in safety meetings, audits, investigations, and corrective-action reviews.
• Verify employee and subcontractor compliance, including training, qualifications, orientation, PPE, documentation, and adherence to ABG and site requirements.
• Support project teams in planning higher-risk activities, including material handling, lifting/rigging, elevated work, mobile equipment, power tools, and simultaneous operations, as applicable.
• Exercise stop-work authority when an imminent danger or unacceptable risk exists and help the team establish a safe path forward.

Training, Coaching, and Culture

• Develop and deliver engaging EH&S onboarding, recurring training, toolbox talks, supervisor development, and task-specific training.
• Coach leaders and employees through constructive field engagement; reinforce ownership while remaining approachable and solutions-oriented.
• Build systems that encourage reporting of hazards, near misses, and improvement ideas without fear of retaliation.
• Recognize strong safety performance and help leaders address unsafe conditions, behaviors, or repeated noncompliance promptly and consistently.
• Develop, coordinate, deliver, and track required EH&S training programs, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), hazard communication, PPE, machine safety, and other OSHA-required training; maintain accurate training records and ensure employees remain current on all required certifications and refreshers.

Incident Management and Continual Improvement

• Lead or facilitate investigations of injuries, illnesses, environmental events, near misses, property damage, and high-potential exposures using sound root-cause methods.
• Coordinate reporting and case management with leadership, HR, medical providers, insurance partners, customers, and regulatory agencies, as appropriate.
• Own corrective and preventive action tracking, verify effectiveness, identify trends, and share lessons learned across facilities and projects.
• Support emergency preparedness through plans, drills, response coordination, and post-event reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health, industrial hygiene, engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience and credentials may be considered.
• Seven or more years of progressive EH&S experience, including substantial responsibility in manufacturing, construction, field installation, or similarly complex operations.
• Demonstrated experience building or materially improving an EH&S program—not only administering an established corporate system.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and practical hazard-control methods relevant to manufacturing and construction activities.
• Experience conducting incident investigations, risk assessments, inspections, audits, and employee/supervisor training.
• Ability to move comfortably between executive-level advising and hands-on work with employees in the field and on the manufacturing floor.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, strong follow-through, and the ability to influence without relying solely on authority.
• Ability to travel regularly to manufacturing and customer sites, including occasional overnight travel, and to respond to significant incidents when needed.
• Valid driver's license and ability to meet site-access requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, ASP, or equivalent.
• OSHA 30-hour Construction and/or General Industry training; authorized OSHA Outreach Trainer status is a plus.
• Experience supporting multiple facilities and geographically dispersed project teams.
• Experience working with general contractors, customer site-safety organizations, subcontractors, and safety prequalification platforms.
• Knowledge of environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, workers' compensation, return-to-work practices, and ISO 14001 or ISO 45001 management systems.

Physical demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate effectively through speaking and hearing. This role is physically active and requires the ability to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, and climb throughout the workday.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move objects weighing up to 50 pounds. Specific visual abilities required for this position include: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Advantic Building Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.