Regional Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Leader

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensure overall EHS compliance for six manufacturing and distribution facilities in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations and company standards.
• Provide oversight of environmental compliance programs across all assigned locations, including applicable permitting, reporting, inspections, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and champion a leader-led culture of safety that embraces accountability, employee engagement, continuous improvement, and a unified divisional safety philosophy.
• Partner with plant leadership teams to integrate safety into daily operations, decision-making, and continuous improvement activities.
• Support and oversee local safety committee initiatives to foster grassroots employee involvement and ownership of workplace safety.
• Lead and manage EHS KPIs, leading and lagging indicators, scorecards, and applicable reporting metrics to drive performance improvements and accountability.
• Conduct facility audits, behavioral-based safety observations, risk assessments, and compliance reviews to identify opportunities for improvement and reduce operational risk.
• Participate in new equipment reviews, process changes, and acquisition due diligence activities to ensure alignment with EHS regulatory and corporate standards.
• Apply and interpret occupational health and safety regulations and consensus standards (including OSHA and ANSI standards) to support compliance and operational effectiveness.
• Lead incident management processes, including OSHA recordability determinations, recordkeeping, reporting, investigations, and corrective action development.
• Partner with HR, operations leadership, insurance carriers, medical providers, employees, and corporate EHS teams on workers’ compensation case management and return-to-work coordination, when applicable.
• Conduct thorough incident investigations, identify root causes, and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain ownership of applicable Driver Qualification processes and related safety compliance programs as needed.
• Partner with business leaders, regional peers, and corporate EHS teams to develop and deploy effective EHS training programs that meet regulatory requirements and operational needs.
• Lead the development, maintenance, training, and deployment of the corporate Safety Management System (SMS) and other applicable systems, applications, and tools throughout the region.
• Collaborate with divisional leadership and regional peers to assess, recommend, standardize, and implement EHS programs, processes, and best practices across all sites within the region.
• Co-host monthly divisional safety calls and contribute to divisional safety strategy, communication, and alignment initiatives.

ISO & Quality System Support

• Partner with plant leadership to support and sustain ISO certification initiatives, including ISO 9001 and other applicable ISO standards across assigned facilities.
• Help ensure operational processes, documentation practices, corrective action systems, and continuous improvement efforts align with ISO standards and audit expectations.
• Support internal and external audit preparation, audit participation, corrective action follow-up, and ongoing compliance activities necessary to maintain certification status.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with quality, operations, and leadership teams to reinforce a culture of operational discipline, standardization, and continuous improvement.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support divisional and corporate initiatives related to operational excellence, risk reduction, sustainability, and employee wellbeing.
• Perform other projects and duties as assigned.