Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety

celanese; Grover (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Celanese Shelby is seeking a Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety to lead the Stewardship systems and culture at the Shelby site. The role provides technical expertise, coaching, and active participation in site leadership to ensure compliant, proactive EHS programs across operations.

The incumbent will supervise program development, regulatory interfaces, incident reviews, and field observations to drive safe, sustainable practices.

Qualifications

• BS degree in safety, engineering, or environmental field.
• 7+ years chemical manufacturing experience with 3+ years in an EHS role.
• Strong knowledge of air, water and waste regulations, permits and reporting.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to champion issues and initiatives.
• Ability to influence across departments to foster a stewardship culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop, sustain, and improve EHS programs to ensure regulatory and Celanese compliance.
• Lead assessments of program execution and drive drift prevention.
• Serve as an expert to execute EHS programs at the site.
• Interface with regulatory agencies for permits, licenses, reporting, and responses.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Influence across departments

Regulatory knowledge

Field presence

Education

BS Degree in Safety Related Field, Engineering, or Environmental

Job description

Overview:

Celanese is seeking a Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety who will lead the Shelby site’s Stewardship (Environmental, Health and Safety) systems and culture through people engagement, ownership of programs, and influence. Provides technical expertise, proactive actions, systematic services, and consultation on program/policy execution. Acts as a coach and mentor to all site personnel in effective EHS processes and principles and is an active member of the site leadership team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, sustain, and improve programs to ensure compliance with regulatory and Celanese requirements to be executed and followed.
• Completes internal and external assessment of program execution, develop and administers feedback measures, then reviews results for drift prevention and future alignment.
• Act as an expert to serve the site in executing the programs.
• Interfaces with regulatory agencies to ensure permits, licenses, reporting, and responses are accurate and completed appropriately.
• Engages all levels of the organization around Stewardship - Leads from the front as a highly influential person.
• Maintain the hazard, near miss, and incident reporting system to ensure appropriate investigation, classification, and follow-up actions have been assigned and completed.
• Ensure timely completion of gap closure for incidents across all core operation through the use of root cause analysis.
• Spend time in field to ensure safety behaviors are meeting expectations.
• Review all new projects, process changes, and new product transfer packages for potential safety, health, environmental and/or security issues, and ensure resolution prior to plant implementation.
• Evaluates stewardship-related hazard reports/Near Misses, improvement ideas, share with the teams and ensure implementation.
• Subject Matter Expert and gatekeeper of life critical policies for the site.
• Site representative and owner of Carolina STAR qualification and program requirements.
• Acts as Human and Organizational Performance Learning Team Site Champion.

Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Safety Related Field, Engineering, or Environmental.
• Minimum 7 years chemical manufacturing experience with 3 years in EHS role.
• Working knowledge of air/water/waste regulations, permitting, and reporting, and experienced in interactions with regulatory agencies.
• Strong leadership competencies and ability to champion issues, ideas, and initiatives.
• Ability to influence across all departments to drive a comprehensive stewardship culture.
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal.

Celanese is a global leader in chemistry, producing specialty material solutions used across most major industries and consumer applications. Our businesses use our chemistry, technology and commercial expertise to create value for our customers, employees and shareholders. We support sustainability by responsibly managing the materials we create and growing our portfolio of sustainable products to meet customer and societal demand. We strive to make a positive impact in our communities and to foster inclusivity across our teams. Celanese Corporation is a Fortune 500 company that employs more than 11,000 employees worldwide with 2025 net sales of $9.5 billion. For more information about Celanese Corporation and its product offerings, visit www.celanese.com.