Safety Specialist (EHS)

The EHS Manager serves as the senior environmental, health, and safety leader for OBE’s Terrell manufacturing complex and a key member of the site leadership team, reporting to the site’s senior operations leader. This role provides both strategic and day‑to‑day leadership for environmental, health, safety, process safety, and industrial hygiene programs in a high‑hazard manufacturing environment. This position is ideal for a seasoned EHS leader who demonstrates strong judgment, visible leadership, and the ability to influence without authority. As a trusted advisor to site leadership, the EHS Manager strengthens serious injury and fatality prevention, advances process safety and hazardous chemical risk management, ensures environmental compliance assurance, and builds a disciplined culture where leaders model safe and compliant behaviors every day. This role operates in a high‑hazard industrial manufacturing environment and requires routine presence in production and support areas. Exposure may include mobile equipment, noise, heat, moving machinery, and chemical hazards, with consistent use of required PPE. Key responsibilities include: Serve as the senior, visible site‑level EHS leader, providing strategic direction and daily oversight of EHS, process safety, and industrial hygiene programs while embedding risk management into business and operational decisions. Lead and strengthen process safety and high‑hazard risk management for operations with potential for serious injury, fatality, fires, explosions, toxic releases, or significant environmental impact, providing technical leadership in hazard identification, risk assessment, management of change, safeguarding, hazardous energy control, abnormal situation management, and incident learning. Provide technical leadership for hazardous chemical management and industrial hygiene programs, including chemical risk assessment, hazard communication, storage and handling practices, exposure prevention, engineering and administrative controls, PPE strategy, ergonomics, monitoring programs, emergency response interfaces, and hazardous location risk controls as applicable to site operations. Serve as the site environmental compliance subject matter expert, ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations (including CAA, CWA, RCRA, and EPCRA), maintaining permits, inspections, monitoring, reporting, documentation, and corrective actions. Drive training, culture, and continuous improvement by developing effective EHS training, leading incident investigations and root cause analysis, coaching leaders and supervisors, and reinforcing line ownership of safety, compliance, and risk reduction. What We Are Looking For Bachelor’s degree in safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience considered. 10 plus years of EHS experience in a high‑hazard industrial manufacturing environment (e.g., metals, petrochemical, chemical processing, material processing, pulp and paper, or similar). Demonstrated hands‑on expertise in process safety, hazardous chemical management, industrial hygiene, and environmental compliance; strong working knowledge of OSHA PSM (Process Safety Management) (29 CFR 1910.119) strongly preferred. Proven ability to coach leaders, influence without direct authority, and build a culture of accountability, engagement, and EHS excellence. Certified Safety Professional (CSP) strongly preferred; excellent written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills; proficient in Microsoft Office. What OBE Offers You Benefits that benefit you – industry competitive benefits at the lowest cost to the employee Work‑life balance – PTO and holidays, including floating holidays you can choose Compensation that rewards your hard work – A pay‑for‑performance culture with potential for annual raises and bonuses Training – We will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed #J-18808-Ljbffr