Environmental Health & Safety Manager - Multi Site

Job Description

Job Description

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: $92,500.00 to $136,800.00

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 family’s 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 & 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 position’s 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 :  Bachelor’s 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

• Master’s 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