Position Summary
The Senior Manager of Corporate Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing NEOTech's enterprise-wide environmental, health, and safety strategy across all domestic operations.
This position will establish consistent corporate EHS standards, strengthen the organization's safety culture, mitigate operational risks, and ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
The role will partner closely with top leadership including Operations, Engineering, Human Resources, Quality, and site management to establish a proactive and standardized approach to EHS management throughout NEOTech's manufacturing network, spanning seven states and eleven sites.
A key priority will be integrating and harmonizing EHS policies, procedures, reporting, and performance expectations across all domestic facilities while addressing the unique operational requirements of each location.
This role will bring extensive EH&S experience in light manufacturing environments, strong leadership capabilities, and a demonstrated ability to translate corporate EHS strategy into measurable operational environmental and safety improvements.
Key Responsibilities
1. Corporate EHS Strategy & Leadership
- Establish and maintain enterprise-wide EHS policies, procedures, management systems, and performance expectations across all domestic facilities.
- Provide strategic leadership and direction to site management and designated EHS personnel, ensuring consistent implementation of corporate standards.
- Partner with executive leadership to establish annual EHS objectives, performance targets, resource requirements, and continuous improvement initiatives.
2. Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management
- Provide corporate oversight of compliance with but not limited to all applicable OSHA, EPA, and federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations.
- Establish standardized processes for regulatory compliance, environmental permitting, inspections, reporting, and recordkeeping.
- Oversee corporate EHS audits, facility risk assessments, and compliance reviews to identify potential exposures and improvement opportunities.
- Establish corrective and preventive action processes to ensure identified risks and compliance gaps are addressed and resolved.
3. Operational Safety & Continuous Improvement
- Drive the development of a proactive safety culture that emphasizes employee engagement, hazard identification, risk prevention, and operational accountability.
- Establish standardized safety programs addressing manufacturing-related risks.
- Lead the standardization of incident reporting, investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes.
- Identify trends and implement initiatives designed to reduce workplace injuries, lost-time incidents, and recurring safety events.
- Partner with Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance to incorporate EHS requirements into manufacturing processes, equipment installations, automation projects, and facility improvements.
- Establish and promote continuous improvement practices that strengthen operational safety and reduce organizational risk.
4. Environmental Management & Sustainability
- Provide corporate leadership and oversight of environmental compliance programs across NEOTech's domestic manufacturing operations.
- Establish consistent standards for hazardous waste management, chemical handling, spill prevention, environmental permitting, and applicable regulatory reporting.
- Support environmental initiatives that improve operational efficiency, reduce waste, and strengthen responsible manufacturing practices.
- Support corporate sustainability initiatives and environmental reporting requirements, as applicable.
5. Corporate Governance, Performance & Reporting
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators, including OSHA recordable incident rates, lost-time incidents, near misses, audit findings, corrective action closure, and other leading and lagging safety indicators.
- Implement consistent reporting processes and dashboards to provide visibility into EHS performance, trends, risks, and improvement initiatives.
- Establish governance processes to ensure accountability, timely corrective actions, and sustained improvements across the organization.
6. Strategic Projects & Business Integration
- Lead EHS integration activities associated with acquisitions, facility expansions, operational changes, and other strategic business initiatives.
- Partner with Engineering, Operations, and executive leadership to evaluate EHS requirements associated with capital investments, new equipment, manufacturing technologies, and facility modifications.
- Partner with Human Resources and Operations on occupational health, employee injury management, workers' compensation, and return-to-work programs.
