Johnson City, TN
9/15/2025

EHS manager should track and manage TRIR, LTIFR, near miss, compliant audit results, safety training status, along with environment metrics through a strategic safety improvement plan. Our highest expectation is for a EHS professional to implement an interdependent safety culture.

Our client is a successful manufacturer who is growing and needs a proactive safety conscious EHS Manager to help move them forward successfully.

The EHS Manager is expected to establish and maintain a strong dotted line of engagement with all team members in alignment with EHS expectations.

The EHS Manager demonstrates the commitment to safety by serving as a role model adhering to safety protocols and using personal protective equipment.

Responsibilities:

  • Make Safety a Core Priority, promote and foster Safety Awareness on a daily basis. .
  • Encourage open dialogue on safety and ensure all team members feel responsible for safety
  • Enforce employees need to follow the rules, procedures, and PPE requirements
  • Develop, revise, maintain and lead all EHS initiatives that foster a culture of interdependent behavior achieving operational excellence.
  • Establish, implement or maintain the EHS system in accordance with ISO 14001.
  • Develop and execute a Safety Improvement Plan providing a road map to a safety culture.
  • Implement workplace EHS requirements and establish safety expectations.
  • Conduct and/or review job safety assessment analyses on all processes to identify and mitigate EHS issues, such as chemical, physical, i.e. such as musculoskeletal stress.
  • Provide compliance advice for hazard prevention and risk-control principles and strategies.
  • Track, calculate, and report health and safety metrics.
  • Conduct and/or participate in pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR).
  • Ensure timely reporting, classification, and investigation of EHS incident or near miss events
  • Complete regulatory submissions, notifications required to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local EHS requirements. Interact with agency for inspections and regulatory advocacy.
  • Drive internal EHS audit program to examine compliance with regulations and conformance with corporate standards. Ensure tracking to allow rapid closure of CAPA in response to audit findings.
  • Lead, develop, coordinate training programs to increase proficiency in EHS practices
  • Document and maintain required training records per organizational guidelines.
  • Establish EHS benchmarking initiatives with all locations and other external insight (FEI PFT).
  • Keep PFT appraised in making timely adjustments and continuously improve performance indicators through statistical analysis, performance metrics (leading and lagging indicators), and monitoring results for PFT’s EHS program.
  • Prepare and execute daily, weekly, monthly PFT report outs as directed.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience in an Occupational Safety role
  • 5+ years’ professional experience in manufacturing in a safety leadership role.
  • Work independently, contribute within a team, and actively engage with all employees
  • Expertise with all EHS functions, safe work practices, auditing, record keeping, investigation/RCA, regulatory permitting and preparing/delivering training.
  • Attention to detail, follow-through, effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to build a bottom-up safety culture to influence a diverse work force in safe practices.