Environmental Health and Safety Manager

About the role

The Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager will lead efforts to build and sustain a strong safety and environmental culture at one of our key manufacturing facilities. This role will partner with employees and leadership across the site to implement effective EHS programs, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement in safety performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead EHS programs for our Alameda site using a Lean, pillar-based approach that connects daily management, team engagement, and continuous improvement to broader network safety and environmental goals.
• Create and maintain EHS and industrial hygiene pillar standards, routines, and programs that meet OSHA requirements, applicable regulations, and company expectations.
• Develop practical training and communication that help employees understand safe work practices, environmental expectations, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Partner with regulatory agencies and internal teams during audits, inspections, RCAs, incident investigations, and corrective action follow-up.
• Identify and lead risk-reduction projects using Lean tools, structured audits, and root-cause thinking to make work safer, simplify processes, and reduce operational exposure.
• Lead strategic EHS initiatives by strengthening pillar governance, aligning stakeholders, managing change, and connecting daily execution to long-term improvement.
• Improve systems and processes that reduce incidents, environmental impact, and related business costs.
• Set meaningful EHS goals, track progress, and use data to help teams understand performance and focus on the right priorities.
• Analyze safety processes, lead RCAs, identify systemic gaps, and implement practical countermeasures that support recognition, engagement, and stronger EHS outcomes.
• Celebrate progress, share learnings from audits, observations, and RCAs, and help employees build the knowledge and habits that prevent injuries and protect the environment.
• Maintain emergency response plans and support effective response to safety, environmental, and employee-related emergencies.

Requirements

• Ownership and initiative: Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable using Lean thinking, RCAs, and practical problem-solving to keep safety and people at the center.
• Collaboration and communication: Clear communicator, good listener, and builder of partnerships that strengthen pillar ownership across operations, quality, maintenance, and leadership teams.
• Interpersonal effectiveness: Emotional intelligence, good judgment, respect for different perspectives, and coach teams on behavior-based safety and continuous improvement routines.
• Hands-on leadership: Visible in the operation, uses daily management and structured audits to understand risks, and helps teams remove barriers where the work happens.

Qualifications

• Experience engaging, influencing, and coaching teams through Lean routines, pillar meetings, audits, and shared safety goals.
• 5–7 years of EHS experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally with exposure to Lean manufacturing, pillar-based systems, or process safety.
• Experience with ISO environmental management systems and understanding how standards, audits, and corrective actions support disciplined EHS execution.
• CSP and/or CIH certification preferred but not required.
• Understanding of ergonomic and operational risk reduction and ability to translate observations, assessments, and RCAs into practical improvements.
• Strong communicator who can work effectively with employees, leaders, regulators, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience building safety and environmental improvement into daily culture through behavior-based safety, visual management, and standard work.
• Data-driven approach to identifying risks, closing gaps, and recommending effective countermeasures.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package for full-time employees, including paid vacation, holidays, and sick days; medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) plan with generous match program; life insurance, disability, and options for HSAs and FSAs; free coffee, fresh baked goods, and discounts; career development; and an Employee Assistance Program.

Pay

The target annual base salary range for this position is $128,000-$166,000. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including the applicant's qualifications, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education, certifications or licenses, other legitimate non-discriminatory business factors, and the geographic location of the role.

Schedule

Onsite in Alameda, CA.