WHY DO WE NEED YOU?
The Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Manager provides strategic leadership and direction for all environmental, health, and safety programs to ensure a safe, healthy, and compliant workplace. This role is responsible for developing and fostering a strong safety culture while ensuring compliance with all applicable federal, state, local, and corporate EHS regulations, policies, and standards.
The EHS Manager develops, implements, and continuously improves plant safety and environmental programs that support the organization's strategic objectives and annual EHS plan. Working collaboratively with plant leadership, the EHS Manager provides guidance and support to managers, supervisors, and employees on all EHS matters and serves as the primary resource for regulatory compliance and safety performance.
Key responsibilities include leading risk assessments, safety audits, environmental compliance activities, employee training, incident investigations, corrective and preventive actions, emergency preparedness, and continuous improvement initiatives. The EHS Manager coordinates and facilitates plant safety committees and drives employee engagement to create a proactive safety culture where hazards are identified, addressed, and eliminated.
This position is accountable for ensuring compliance with OSHA, EPA, and other applicable regulatory requirements while minimizing organizational risk. The EHS Manager monitors key performance indicators, analyzes safety trends, and implements initiatives that reduce injuries, environmental impact, and regulatory exposure.
The role exercises independent judgment on matters that can significantly affect employee safety, environmental compliance, financial performance, corporate reputation, and community relations. Decisions include evaluating workplace hazards, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, implementing corrective actions, and promoting safe work practices throughout the facility. The position also supports incident investigations, workers' compensation management, and regulatory inspections as needed.
The EHS Manager is expected to work closely with all levels of the organization to build accountability, reinforce safe behaviors, and create a workplace where safety and environmental stewardship are core organizational values.
This position may be assigned additional responsibilities and duties as business needs require.
SAFETY
- Lead program development and training,
- Lead audits, inspections, compliance calendar, record keeping
- Lead/facilitate safety huddles. Ensure topics are value added, audit all shifts for compliance.
- Identify and facilitate to correct hazards
- Updating/keep current JSA's, LOTO, Machine Guarding. Includes training and audits.
- Safety committee coordinator and safety team administrator,
- OSHA compliance and recordkeeping.
- Gensuite implementation and building
- Network, share best practices with sister plants and other BU's
- Lead efforts to implement new company safety tools/programs
IS THIS JOB FOR YOU?
Education
- Education Level Degree or Program of Study Required/Preferred
- Bachelor's Degree Business Management, Industrial Engineering, EHS, or other related field Required
- Master's Degree Business Management, Industrial Engineering, EHS, or other related field Preferred
- Licenses and Certifications
- License/Certification Timeframe Required/Preferred
- National Safety Council membership and/or SARA/CERCLA/RCRA certification
Preferred
- OSHA Certification 30 Hour Preferred
- Work Experience
- Experience Years or Relevant Details Required/Preferred
- EHS Experience in a manufacturing environment 5+ Required
- Engineering Background (Project Management, Process Engineering) 5+ Preferred
TO MAKE SURE NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN
Job Description Continued
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH COMPLIANCE
- Lead program compliance for, ISA, BCP, GAPS and other E&H requirements. Ensure findings/observations are reconciled in a timely manner.
- EHS program administration, training and reporting,
- Sampling and recordkeeping for all plant discharge and waste streams
- Proactively manage compliance inspections and represent the plant for all audits
- Maintain all applicable certifications.
Appropriation Requests
- Lead/write AR's related to EH&S initiatives
- Support plant with EH&S expertise as it relates to all CAPEX
SECURITY
- Coordinate all emergency response and relief.
- Ensure BCP is updated to include emergency response and crisis management.
A LITTLE MORE ABOUT US
Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, fence, decking, railing, trim, insulation, drywall and ceilings.
A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,300 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. www.certainteed.com.
LEGAL STATEMENT
Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.
Applicants for roles based in Washington state or remote roles that would be worked from Washington state are encouraged to direct any concerns regarding the state’s Pay Transparency laws to the SGNA HR Compliance team at [email protected].
BENEFITS IN JOINING US
At Saint-Gobain, our goal is to deliver a comprehensive Total Rewards package to support your well-being and improve daily life for you and your family. We value your contribution to our purpose, Making the World a Better Home, and your Total Rewards package aims to help you plan for the future you want.
Employees have the flexibility to choose the benefits that best fit their individual needs:
- Health and Wellbeing – Supporting your wellbeing, to thrive in life and work.
- Medical, Prescription Drug, Vision, and Dental Insurance
- Healthcare Saving Account and Flexible Spending Account options
• LiveWell Wellness Program • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave • Retirement and Protection - Helping to make the future life you want a reality.
- 401(k) with Company Match, Retirement Accumulation Plan (RAP), Cash Balance Pension Plan
- Company-provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Short-Term Disability
- Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance, Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness, and Accident Insurance
Additional Benefits – Helping shape the experience and impact you want
- Group Legal
- Identity Theft Protection
- Auto and Home Insurance
- Pet Insurance and Discounts
- Back-up Child & Elder Care
- PerkSpot Employee Discount Program
Job Reference: USA15019
