EHS Manager

Responsibilities

• Champion a proactive safety culture focused on hazard awareness, near-miss reporting, and consistent reinforcement of safe work practices in a high-energy recycling environment.
• Provide daily floor presence across sorting, shredding/grinding, washing, extrusion, and pelletizing operations to identify risks and coach employees.
• Lead risk assessments (TRAs) for high-hazard equipment, including grinders, shredders, conveyors, balers, silos, and extruders.
• Oversee combustible dust prevention and control programs, including dust sampling, housekeeping protocols, and engineering controls.
• Ensure compliance with machine guarding, LOTO, confined space, fall protection, and mobile equipment (forklifts, skid steers, loaders) requirements.
• Lead incident and near-miss investigations using structured RCA methods (5-Whys, Fishbone, PDCA).
• Oversee completion, verification, and effectiveness checks of corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop and deliver EHS training programs for PPE use, plastics-processing hazards, chemical handling, forklift operation, hot work, and emergency response.
• Manage new-hire orientation tailored to recycling facility hazards, including pinch points, dust, heat, noise, and chemical exposure.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, state environmental agencies, fire marshal requirements, and recycling-specific regulatory frameworks.
• Maintain OSHA recordkeeping, injury/illness logs, and required environmental reporting obligations.
• Conduct internal audits and coordinate external regulatory inspections.
• Oversee air, water, and waste compliance programs, including stormwater, SPCC, SWPPP, wastewater discharge, and air emissions from extrusion and thermal processes.
• Manage plastics waste streams, universal waste, hazardous waste, and recycling-specific environmental controls.
• Oversee environmental inspections, sampling, reporting, and documentation aligned with DEQ/EPA expectations.
• Manage chemical safety related to wash-line chemicals, detergents, lubricants, hydraulic fluids, and facility cleaning agents.
• Oversee noise monitoring, respiratory protection, heat-stress controls, and ergonomics for sorting and repetitive material handling tasks.
• Ensure proper functioning of engineering controls, including ventilation, dust collection, guarding, and interlocks.
• Maintain and improve EHS programs, including LOTO, Hazard Communication, Emergency Action Plan, hot work permitting, contractor management, and mobile equipment safety.
• Audit SOPs and ensure hazard analyses are current for all manufacturing, processing, and recycling equipment.
• Oversee emergency drills, spill response readiness, alarm systems, and fire-prevention programs specific to plastics operations.
• Work with local emergency responders and fire departments to review site hazards and emergency access considerations.
• Manage EHS performance metrics, analyze trends, and provide regular reporting to leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives using data-informed decision making.
• Sustain ISO 14001 certification and support alignment with ISO 9001 requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional EHS experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to create and deliver safety training programs.
• Strong initiative with the ability to influence, coach, and facilitate change across diverse teams.
• Capable of working independently with limited direction while maintaining strong cross-functional partnerships.
• Excellent organizational habits with consistent follow-through.
• Valid U.S. Driver's License.
• Ability to travel domestically up to 10%.