EHS Manager (Field Based)

Environmental Resources Management (ERM); Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 87,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is seeking an EHS Manager to provide senior, hands‑on safety leadership for a dedicated facility near Columbus, Ohio. This full‑time 12‑month role requires independent operation in a fast‑moving technical environment, anticipating risk and building scalable safety systems that protect workers and support growth.

The role partners with Engineering, Operations and Facilities to embed safety into design and work planning, while leading incident response,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive EHS experience in complex technical environments.
• Strong knowledge of occupational safety and health practices.
• Experience scaling EHS programs for rapid growth and 24/7 operations.
• Ability to translate regulatory obligations into practical programs.
• Proven ability to influence leaders and partners across functions.

Responsibilities

• Set site-level EHS strategy and execution for the special projects site.
• Anticipate EHS requirements for new operations and scale plans before work begins.
• Lead risk identification and control across projects, including machine safety and contractor safety.
• Develop and maintain site EHS programs, risk assessments, training, and incident systems.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Facilities, and other teams to embed safety into design and planning.
• Provide visible field leadership across shifts and 24/7 operations.
• Lead incident investigations and implement corrective actions with trend analysis.

Skills

EHS leadership

R&D operations

Machine safety

Ergonomics

Electrical safety

Contractor safety

Incident investigation

Regulatory compliance

Safety programs

Job description

ERM is seeking an EHS Manager to provide senior, hands‑on safety leadership for a dedicated facility near Columbus, Ohio. This role is for an experienced EHS leader who can operate independently in a fast‑moving technical environment, anticipate risk before it becomes an incident, and build practical safety systems that scale with the business. Our special projects operations are scaling quickly, with a growing mix of construction, commissioning, workforce expansion, and around-the‑clock operations. This creates a complex and evolving risk environment and requires strong preventive planning, consistent field presence, and sustained incident‑management oversight. This leader will own site‑level EHS strategy and execution for the special projects site while partnering with the broader EHS team on company‑wide standards and programs. The successful candidate will look around corners: planning for future ramps, identifying requirements early, influencing design and operating decisions, and creating durable systems that enable teams to move quickly without compromising safety. This is a full‑time (40 hours per week) limited‑term role, with a duration of 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior EHS partner across R&D operations, owning site‑level safety strategy, priorities, and execution as the footprint scales.
• Anticipate EHS requirements for new operations, equipment, processes, construction phases, staffing ramps, and 24/7 operations, and translate them into practical plans before work begins.
• Lead proactive risk identification and control across special projects activities, including machine safety, ergonomics, electrical safety, material handling, contractor safety, and other site‑specific risks.
• Build and maintain site EHS programs, risk assessments, procedures, training, inspections, corrective‑action systems, emergency preparedness, and compliance processes appropriate to each site’s risk profile.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Facilities, Workplace, Construction, Security, People, Legal, and vendors to embed safety into facility design, equipment deployment, work planning, and operating decisions.
• Provide visible field leadership across shifts and operating conditions, establishing mechanisms that support effective EHS coverage and escalation for 24/7 operations.
• Lead incident response and investigation for significant events; ensure timely fact‑finding, root‑cause analysis, corrective actions, verification, trend analysis, and communication of lessons learned.
• Use incident, near‑miss, inspection, and operational data to identify recurring risks and drive preventive actions across sites rather than addressing events in isolation.
• Oversee contractor and contingent‑worker safety interfaces, clarifying responsibilities, expectations, reporting, and corrective‑action ownership across multi‑employer worksites.
• Maintain strong regulatory compliance and readiness, including applicable State and OSHA requirements, while developing metrics and reporting that make site risks, actions, and performance visible to leadership.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive EHS experience, including significant leadership responsibility in R&D, industrial, or similarly complex technical environments.
• Strong technical knowledge across occupational safety and health, with depth in areas such as machine safety, ergonomics, electrical safety, hazardous energy, material handling, contractor safety, and incident investigation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex sites through rapid scale, construction and operational overlap, commissioning, process change, or transition to extended or 24/7 operations.
• Strong working knowledge of State of Ohio and OSHA requirements and the ability to translate regulatory obligations into practical, scalable operating programs.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior technical and operational leaders, especially where EHS does not directly own the work and decisions must be made through partnership.
• Experience building EHS systems, programs, metrics, vendor support, and operating rhythms for an emerging or rapidly scaling organization.
• Strong judgment and the ability to balance operational speed, technical complexity, workforce needs, compliance, and risk without defaulting to overly rigid solutions.
• Clear, credible communication skills with executives, engineers, operators, contractors, employees, and external partners, including the ability to communicate during high‑pressure incidents.
• Comfort operating independently in ambiguity, with the technical depth, field orientation, pragmatism, and ownership needed to anticipate what is coming and build durable safety capability ahead of growth.

For the EHS Manager position

For the EHS Manager position, the anticipated annual base pay is $87,360.00 – $132,828.80, or $42.00/hr – $63.86/hr . Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off (vacation, sick, and floating holidays), parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k), and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

Who We Are

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our "boots to boardroom" approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation. With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action. Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a "boots to boardroom" leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.