EHS Manager

About the role

As the EHS Manager you will apply knowledge of the Occupational Safety area to ensure achievement of key area goals and objectives. May mentor and/or manage talent to ensure tasks, processes, and projects are completed in an accurate and timely manner, providing direction or support as needed.

Responsibilities

• Implement, execute, ensure compliance with the Pepsi - North American Beverages EHS policies and procedures, and all federal, state, and local OSHA/EPA (i.e. Lockout, Haz Com, Machine Safety, SARA, RCRA, etc.)
• Manage local EHS budget
• Lead the development and implementation of the EHS Annual Operating Plans and EHS Action Plans for the location
• Achieve annual targets rates for Lost Time, Recordable, Severity, and Environmental
• Ensure compliance with applicable occupational safety and environmental regulations
• Develop, implement, execute, and manage strategies to prevent workplace injuries, and environmental incidents
• Show solid employee relations experience, interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
• Show strong problem solving, organizational and analytical skills
• Display professional maturity and ability to act as a change leader by influencing all levels of the organization to drive continuous improvement in safety performance
• Conduct EHS activities such as training/auditing/assessing to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory agency requirements, Zero Zone Management System standards, Emergency Response and internal PepsiCo EHS procedures
• Perform risk assessments and assist in the implementation of effective physical and/or behavioral control measures. Recognize and verify the effectiveness of in-place control measures
• Identify unsafe equipment operation and conditions while demonstrating knowledge of appropriate corrective action for unsafe conditions or equipment use
• Exercise a leadership, coordination, and communication role with the location leadership to drive continuous EHS improvement across the location
• Complete root cause analyses and develop corrective action plans to address root basic causes and management system weak-spots through the use of industry-recognized cause analysis techniques
• Serves as subject matter expert (SME) for key EHS programs
• Provides templates and other tools to assists Sectors in the development and deployment of facility-specific environmental programs (e.g., Emergency Response, Spills, Stormwater, etc.) and external environmental reports to regulatory agencies
• Provides proactive and reactive environmental compliance and risk management program consultation to all Global Sectors and sites
• Buils and delivers environmental risk management and compliance programming tools and training materials
• Tracks and reviews environmental program performance metrics and incident data and assists the Director with updating the strategic plans
• Works with Sectors to develop annual environmental operating plans and track progress-to-plan
• Works with PepsiCo Legal teams to craft and strategize on potential Notice of Violations, exceedances, and other like regulatory activities
• Evaluates capital and innovation projects to determine environmental impacts, environmental compliance requirements, and environmental risk control needs
• Works with Global Sector EHS Managers as needed to support application for and review of environmental permits, as required, assuring on-going facility compliance and operating permits
• Supports Global EHS environmental and EHS audit processes
• Represents environmental interests (e.g., compliance, permitting, waste management, risk management program implementation, Early Management, Management of Change, etc.) to PepsiCo functional teams and Sector leadership
• Identifies new environmental regulatory obligations and other requirements through a regulatory applicability analysis (RAA) process
• Create and deliver training materials and communications to expand capability in the defined subject matter

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-10 years of progressive EHS work experience + people leadership
• Bachelor’s degree (required) - Environmental or Safety
• EHS management experience in a related industry, including consumer packaged goods, distribution/transportation, manufacturing or grocery industry
• Knowledge and experience with EHS Management systems and their deployment
• Solid working knowledge of EHS regulatory compliance
• Displays strong problem solving, organizational and analytical skills
• Strong project management skills including financial responsibility, budgeting, scheduling, vendor management, execution and start-up/commissioning, managing multiple concurrent projects/programs