Environmental Health and Safety Manager

AMETEK; Collegeville (PA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks an Environmental, Health and Safety Manager to lead EHS programs at a manufacturing facility. This role emphasizes creating an injury-free workplace culture, ensuring compliance with regulations, and implementing best practices for safety. The ideal candidate will possess extensive EHS experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Join a company that values safety and integrity, and play a crucial role in protecting employees and the environment while driving operational excellence in a dynamic manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of EHS experience in manufacturing with increased responsibility.
• Expertise in tools for monitoring environmental/worker exposure.

Responsibilities

• Lead EHS initiatives to improve workplace safety and compliance.
• Conduct audits and risk assessments to enhance EHS programs.

Skills

EHS Expertise

Incident Investigation

Risk Assessment

Behavioral Based Safety

Lean or Six-Sigma

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Root Cause Analysis Tools

Job description

As an Environmental, Health and Safety Manager, you are tasked with leading and managing all Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) programs and systems for the Superior Tube manufacturing facility located in Collegeville, suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Daily responsibility for the continuous improvement of all EHS activities through the implementation of EHS programs and process improvements. The primary focus of all EHS activities is the establishment of an “Injury-Free Workplace Culture” and striving for the continual reduction of risks. This also includes compliance with USEPA, PADEP, OSHA, state, and local agency regulations. The EHS Manager must ensure the implementation of best practices and the world-class EHS performance programs and systems. This position will report to the Superior Tube Plant Manager.

Responsibilities: The EH&S Manager will:

• Provide professional EHS expertise and leadership to deliver a robust and sustainable EHS culture at Superior Tube, with a passion for improvement and reduction of risk.
• Lead initiatives to identify and assess risks throughout the facility. Develop and implement control measures consistent with an injury-free and zero environmental incidents culture that includes the relentless pursuit of engineered solutions such as automation, hands-free work, and ergonomic improvements.
• Respond with urgency to any upset EHS conditions. Conduct accident and incident investigations, prepare and present incident review reports using root cause tools, and aggressively pursue corrective action to prevent recurrence.
• Maintain OSHA occupational injury and illness forms, workers’ compensation records, and loss-time injury.
• Regularly conduct EHS audits and assess EHS risks. Identify and implement changes to mitigate any risk, improve facility EHS programs, and increase the effectiveness of all EHS programs and, where prudent, reduce costs.
• Coach, lead, mentor, train, and develop managers, supervisors, and employees to achieve EHS objectives.
  • Support individual employee EHS knowledge and development.
  • Develop and implement training programs to ensure all works have current EHS knowledge to meet company expectations and adhere to required training calendar requirements.
• Serve as the primary contact for all regulatory agencies, inspectors, and permit officials.
• Maintain all EHS required permits, reports, training records, and logs.
  • Ensure that required environmental reports and plans are submitted to the proper agencies (USEPA, OSHA, PADEP, State, County, and Municipal authorities) and are readily available for audit and inspections.
  • Ensure that all sites are adhering to their applicable federal, state, and local requirements for air, waste, wastewater treatment, chemical usage, emissions data, etc.
  • Maintenance of electronic SDS library and chemical management requirements.
• Maintain personal protective equipment (PPE) hazard assessment program, manage PPE supply inventories, and enforce appropriate PPE use requirements.
• Actively participate in Superior Tube, Division, and Corporate safety programs.
  • Chair the Superior Tube Safety Committee.
  • Share incident reviews and training programs on weekly Safety Team calls by sharing best practices and sharing incident reviews and trainings.
  • Collaborate with other Ametek EHS professionals to ensure Superior Tube’s alignment with Ametek initiatives.
• Provide recommendations to management and operations teams to resolve any EHS concerns, identify risks, and proactively reduce these risks to improve operations.
  • This includes collaborating with operations teams and ensuring operations leadership is reviewing safety programs and performing risk assessments.
  • Provide supporting data when new projects or existing equipment/operations are being considered or modified in a significant fashion.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Applied Science, Safety Engineering, or similar academic majors or equivalent experience. Master’s degree preferred but not required.
• 10-15 years of demonstrated EHS experience, leadership, and success in a manufacturing environment with an appropriate progression of increased responsibility.
• Expertise in the use of tools designed to detect, monitor, and measure environmental/worker exposure and tracking incidents.
• Experience with leading incident investigations and implementation of corrective actions.
• Knowledge of Behavioral Based Safety and success with cultural improvement, risk assessment, and hazard reduction programs.
• Hands-on experience performing root-cause analysis of safety items and working with operations teams on continuous improvement programs. Lean or Six-Sigma experience a plus.
• Must operate with credibility and unquestioned professional and ethical integrity as an EHS expert.
• Proven verbal and written communication skills which enable the incumbent to provide effective and meaningful EHS direction and training to Superior Tube employees, customers, division, and corporate management.
• Demonstrated skills with Microsoft Office applications including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and MS Teams.
• Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail.
• Experience working in a manufacturing facility with knowledge of engineering and manufacturing processes. Experience in metalworking operations is preferred.
• This position requires US export authorization.
• This is an on-site position working in a manufacturing facility. Not a work-from-home opportunity.

Here at Superior Tube, we just celebrated our 90th Anniversary as the global leader in the tubing industry. We are passionate about manufacturing small-diameter, thin-wall metal tubing for mission-critical applications in the aerospace, defense, nuclear, and medical industries.

Superior Tube is part of Ametek’s Special Metal Products Business Union (SMP BU). The SMP BU manufactures and markets a wide range of products including: powder, precision tubing, and precision metal strip. These products are available in a wide range of materials such as: stainless steel, nickel alloys, and titanium to the end-use markets of aerospace, medical, nuclear, and oil & gas. We deliver exceptional products and services to customers around the world, every day through our values of safety, integrity, financial performance, customer service, people, and culture.