Environmental Health & Safety Manager Multi Site

About the job

The Role

This position will report to: Vice President of EHS

Travel Requirements: Based on Business needs 7-10%

FLSA Status: Exempt

Shift:1

Location: Ceres Ca

Employment Category: Full-Time Regular

Pay Range: $92500.00 to $136800.00

Onsite Position

Bronco Wine Company founded in 1973 our family-owned company strives to continue and improve upon being vertically integrated from the vineyard to the table focusing on crafting quality wines for every table. Our familys resilience and sustained growth will continue to be fostered through stewardship of family valued employees respected partners and future generations.

JOB STATEMENT: The Multi-Site Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Manager provides enterprise-level strategic leadership regulatory governance and operational oversight across 3 wine production facilities. Reporting directly to the Vice President of EHS this role drives the alignment of occupational safety food safety interfaces and environmental sustainability with corporate business objectives. The EHS Manager serves as a critical partner to Plant Managers Quality Assurance Engineering and Executive Leadership to mitigate high-volume operational risks manage extensive water and waste streams and institutionalize a zero-injury safety culture.

Essential Duties:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Report directly to the VP of EHS escalating critical risks compliance metrics and strategic project updates across all enterprise locations.

• Direct EHS governance for 3 wine making facilities (Ceres Napa Santa Rosa) ensuring corporate alignment and localized compliance.

• Execute regular cross-site auditing standardized KPI tracking and systemic root-cause corrective action implementations across all filling packaging and warehousing operations.

• Lead mentor and hold accountable a matrixed team of site EHS coordinators optimizing talent density and specialized capabilities.

• Absorb and seamlessly institutionalize the operational responsibilities of unstaffed EHS leadership roles to maintain flawless continuity of plant compliance.

Beverage-Specific Hazard Mitigation & Operational Safety

• Manage specialized safety programs for extreme manufacturing environments including high-pressure processing (HPP) thermal pasteurization systems and steam generation hazards.

• Develop engineering controls and personal protective equipment (PPE) protocols for high-speed glass handling bottling lines broken glass containment and pressurized container hazards
• Mitigate risks associated with advanced automation including high-speed filler operations heavy robotics automated palletizers and continuous conveyor systems.
• Enforce robust high-hazard safety programs tailored to beverage plant infrastructure focusing on lockout/tagout (LOTO) confined space entry (tanks silos blending vessels) line-clearance and chemical sanitation/CIP processes.

Enterprise Environmental Stewardship & Utilities Compliance

• Serve as the Enterprise Environmental Champion directing governance for industrial wastewater discharge stormwater pollution prevention (SWPPP) refrigeration systems (PSM/RMP where applicable) air permits and boiler compliance.

• Engineer advanced environmental management systems (EMS) that target utility reduction focusing heavily on water-use efficiency (water-to-product ratios) energy conservation and true zero-waste-to-landfill strategies.

• Command all environmental incident investigations spearhead regulatory defense strategies and orchestrate immediate corrective-preventive actions (CAPA) to eliminate NOV risks.

Capital Project Influence

• Design and execute the scalable integration framework for onboarding newly acquired lines processing equipment or complete facilities into the enterprise EHS ecosystem.

• Author comprehensive EHS policies procedures and regulatory frameworks optimized for beverage processing environments and automated beverage logistics.

• Mitigate project risks by implementing rigorous Management of Change (MOC) and New Equipment Review (NER) protocols for new production lines facility expansions and infrastructure upgrades.

Regulatory Compliance & Food Safety Intersect

• Audit multi-site operations against OSHA EPA DOT and local jurisdictions (e.g. LEPC/CUPA/Cal/OSHA) transform high-risk gaps into robust operational controls.

• Collaborate with Quality Assurance (QA) to ensure perfect synergy between EHS chemical management safety/chemical clearance protocols and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) / Food Safety standards (SQF BRC FDA).

• Govern all OSHA 300 logs mandatory environmental recordkeeping chemical safety data sheet (SDS) compliance and formal regulatory defense documentation for all assigned business units.

Cultural Transformation & Executive Reporting

• Architect and deploy high-impact safety education curricula tailored to multi-shift high-speed beverage production workforces to actively reduce TRIR.

• Re-engineer plant safety committees operational toolbox talks and leadership accountability workshops to build a proactive human performance culture.

• Synthesize complex EHS data leading safety indicators SMS implementation milestones and corporate sustainability metrics into actionable strategic presentations for the VP of EHS and corporate executive leadership.

Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned consistent with the positions purpose and operational needs

Key Performance Indicators & Success Metrics The performance and success of this role will be directly evaluated by the VP of EHS based on the following milestones and metrics:

• SMS Implementation : Successful multi-site deployment standardization and execution of the corporate Safety Management System.

• Regulatory Compliance : Achievement of zero corporate and site-level NOVs (Notices of Violation) across all environmental health and safety jurisdictions.

• Best-In - Class Incident Rates : Realization and maintenance of a world-class Total Recordable Incident Rate ( TRIR 1.6) across all locations.

• Safety Culture Enhancement : Measurable improvements in frontline engagement hazard identification velocity and leadership accountability metrics.

Other duties as assigned

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum Requirements

• Education : Bachelors degree in occupational safety environmental health and safety industrial hygiene engineering environmental science or a closely related technical field.
• Experience : 7 years of progressively responsible EHS experience in management roles within high-volume manufacturing including leadership of programs across multiple facilities or business units.
• Industry Knowledge: Demonstrated experience supporting food beverage consumer packaged goods or similarly regulated process-manufacturing operations with automated production packaging warehousing and sanitation activities.
• Regulatory Expertise: Working knowledge of federal OSHA and Cal/OSHA requirements EPA and California environmental regulations hazardous materials and waste requirements air and water permitting stormwater industrial wastewater and applicable DOT requirements.
• Program Leadership: Proven ability to develop implement audit and continuously improve enterprise EHS management systems and high-hazard programs including lockout/tagout confined space machine guarding powered industrial trucks ergonomics chemical safety emergency response and contractor safety.
• Investigations and Corrective Action: Demonstrated ability to lead serious incident and near-miss investigations perform root-cause analysis develop corrective and preventive actions and verify sustained closure.
• Leadership and Influence: Experience coaching site leaders and EHS professionals influencing cross-functional stakeholders and driving accountability in a matrixed multi-shift environment.
• Communication: Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and communicate risks performance trends and recommendations clearly to frontline employees regulators plant leadership and executives.
• Technology: Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and experience using EHS information-management systems for incident reporting audits action tracking training and performance dashboards.
• Travel and Availability: Ability to travel regularly among assigned California facilities and respond to urgent EHS matters outside normal business hours as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in occupational safety environmental management industrial hygiene engineering business administration or a related field.
• Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) or equivalent.
• Ten or more years of EHS experience including leadership responsibility for multiple manufacturing sites and direct or matrixed supervision of EHS professionals.
• Experience in wine beverage food processing bottling packaging distribution or agricultural operations.
• Experience with California regulatory agencies and programs including Cal/OSHA CUPA air districts regional water quality control boards SWPPP industrial wastewater hazardous materials business plans and hazardous waste.
• Experience with process safety management risk management plans ammonia refrigeration boilers pressure systems combustible dust or other high-hazard process-safety programs where applicable.
• Demonstrated success reducing incident rates improving leading indicators and implementing standardized EHS systems across geographically dispersed facilities.
• Experience integrating EHS requirements into capital projects acquisitions new equipment reviews management-of-change processes and facility expansions.
• Familiarity with ISO 14001 ISO 45001 ANSI standards behavior-based safety or human and organizational performance principles.
• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge of federal state and local environmental occupational health and safety laws regulations consensus standards and permitting requirements applicable to multi-site manufacturing operations.
• Manufacturing and Process Safety: Knowledge of hazards and controls associated with beverage processing bottling packaging sanitation warehousing utilities automated equipment pressure systems refrigeration chemical use and contractor activities.
• Risk Assessment: Skill in identifying hazards evaluating operational and regulatory risk prioritizing controls and applying the hierarchy of controls to reduce exposure and prevent incidents.
• Incident Investigation: Skill in leading complex incidents injury environmental release and near-miss investigations; conducting root-cause analysis; and developing measurable corrective and preventive actions.
• Incident Investigation: Skill in leading complex incidents injury environmental release and near-miss investigations; conducting root-cause analysis; and developing measurable corrective and preventive actions.
• EHS Systems: Ability to design implement audit and continuously improve standardized EHS management systems policies procedures training programs emergency plans and compliance-assurance processes across multiple locations.
• Leadership and Influence: Ability to lead through direct and matrixed relationships coach managers and EHS professionals build accountability resolve competing priorities and influence decisions without relying solely on formal authority.
• Communication: Ability to communicate technical and regulatory information clearly and credibly through written procedures training presentations executive reports regulatory correspondence and discussions with employees at all organizational levels.
• Data and Business Acumen: Skill in analyzing leading and lagging indicators identifying trends developing dashboards evaluating return on risk-reduction investments and translating findings into practical business recommendations
• Project and Change Management: Ability to manage concurrent initiatives establish priorities and timelines coordinate cross-functional resources integrate EHS into capital projects and management-of-change processes and sustain implementation across facilities.
• Judgment and Adaptability: Ability to exercise sound judgment maintain confidentiality respond effectively during emergencies work independently in changing operational conditions and balance immediate production needs with long-term risk reduction and compliance obligations.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Lift up to 75 lbs.
• Occasional overhead reach
• Occasional stoop squat position
• Frequently walking

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Moderate noise level
• Working with others
• Outdoor climate

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT REQUIRED: Side shield safety glasses head/ear protection and proper footwear/PPE when in production facility.

WHAT WE OFFER At Bronco Wine Company we understand that our success is driven by our talented committed workforce. We value the contributions each employee makes to our achievements and our aim is to offer a comprehensive benefits program that is competitive helping us attract and retain top talent. Our Benefits are crafted to support the needs of our employees and their families ensuring the package is simple to understand easy to access and affordable for all.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life and AD&D
• Voluntary life and AD&D
• Group Short-Term Disability
• Group Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Critical Illness
• Voluntary Accident & Injury
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401K
• Paid time off

EEO STATEMENT: Bronco Wine Company is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and takes pride in being an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will be considered for employment without discrimination based on race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability status protected veteran status genetic information or any other characteristic safeguarded by law.

We are committed to cultivating an environment where every individual feels valued respected and empowered to reach their full potential.

Reasonable Accommodations: We will provide reasonable accommodations to assist individuals with disabilities in performing essential job functions. If you wish to apply for a position at Bronco Wine Company and require special assistance during the application process or if you believe you do not meet the necessary qualifications for a posted position due to a protected disability and would like to discuss potential accommodations please reach out to our Human Resources at for further assistance or guidance.

Recruitment Agencies : Bronco Wine Company does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Bronco Wine Company is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Required Experience:

Manager