EHS Manager

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As the EHS Manager for the Cresco, IA manufacturing site, you will oversee safety, health, and environmental programs to ensure legal compliance and promote a safe workplace culture. Key responsibilities include developing policies, conducting risk assessments, training employees, leading incident investigations, and ensuring compliance with Corporate, federal, state, and local regulations. This role involves a mix of strategic planning, tactical expertise and execution, hands-on training, data analysis, and emergency preparedness.

Qualified candidates must be able to work an on-site schedule at our Cresco, IA facility.

Role Responsibilities:

• Leads environmental, health and safety targets and objectives for the site to measurably reduce exposure to the site’s most significant health and safety risks and environmental impacts.

• Identifies action-based EHS goals for site leadership team members and supervisors to support achievement of site-specific EHS targets and objectives.

• Leads employee-directed safety teams and employee resource groups and facilitates their engagement in activities that enable a compliant, incident-free workplace.

• Develop, implement, and manage safety, health, and environmental programs and policies to ensure compliance with all corporate policies, relevant laws, and regulations.

• Leads the implementation and maintenance of EHS risk assessment tools designed to identify, prioritize and control exposures to health and safety hazards or environmental impacts that can result in harm to people, property, or the environment.

• Identify, analyze, and measure workplace hazards and institute changes to improve existing conditions, prevent incidents, and create a safer environment. 

• Lead investigations into workplace incidents, analyze findings, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Conduct regular safety audits and inspections of facilities and procedures to ensure standards are met. 

• Maintain safety records, track incident statistics, and use data to identify leading indicators, and make informed recommendations and action plans to improve safety performance.

• Drives safety culture and provides subject matter expertise for the site. Conducts, monitors, and oversees applicable training, reporting, compliance, and employee resource groups.

• Manage and oversee emergency response plans and conduct drills to ensure readiness for various scenarios. May lead as primary, or part of a collaborative team, environmental auditing, compliance, reporting, sustainability efforts and other governance initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, fire protection, engineering, or closely related field.

• 5+ years of EHS experience, ideally focused on safety, in an industrial or manufacturing environment.

• Minimum of 2 years of leadership experience in environmental, health and safety.

​Preferred Qualifications:

• ASP, CSP, or like certification

• Master’s degree preferred.

• Experience in a Unionized manufacturing facility

• Experience with establishing/leading behavioral safety programs.

• Experience with change management, project management, and program implementation.

• Demonstrated success building and improving EHS performance and establishing best practices.

• Passion and drive for safety leadership. Ability to engage others and in short- and long-term objectives.

• Knowledge of environmental and OSHA regulations, recommendations, and best practices.

Relocation: This position is eligible for relocation assistance.

Immigration Sponsorship Not Available:

• Applicants for this position must be currently and legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, J-1, F-1, CPT, OPT, etc.).

• Donaldson will not offer immigration sponsorship or assume sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

• International relocation or remote work arrangements outside of the U.S. will not be considered.

Keywords: Safety, Occupational Health, Environmental, Manufacturing, Industrial

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