EHS Manager

1131 Arnold Street, United States | Chicago Heights | Full-time

Job Description

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Manager to join our team at Gerresheimer. This role will be responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight, aligned with Global EHS & Sustainability, for occupational health, safety, hygiene, occupational medicine, environmental, and sustainability issues, including federal, state and local compliance to regulations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, monitor and audit the Environmental Control System, which must meet the requirements established by Federal, State and Local regulations.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of existing and proposed local, state and Federal regulations.
• Maintain site-specific EHS program and plans in accordance with state and federal regulations and company expectations.
• Manage site environmental health and safety teams, including the Emergency Response Team (ERT) and the site Safety, Ergonomic and Environmental Committee.
• Use every opportunity to drive EHS awareness by demonstrating safe behavior, continuous self-development and education in areas of environmental, health & safety compliance, industry trends and regulatory developments.
• Develop site specific roadmap in line with corporate sustainability strategy and goals.
• Ensure compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations.

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Knowledge:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in engineering, industrial science management, environmental science management, or environmental engineering.
• 10+ years of relevant working experience in EHS management in a manufacturing environment or related industries, with 3 years in a management position.
• Desired licensing: OSHA 45001, ISO9001, ISO14001-2015, CSP, CIH, HAZ, VPP.

Skills / Abilities:

• Experience in obtaining and maintaining OHSAS certification.
• Strong analytical skills and proven success in managing budgets and vendors.
• Ability to work and engage with all levels of stakeholders.
• Lead investigation of accidents, incidents, and near misses to identify causes and to determine how such accidents might be prevented in the future.
• Maintain compliance with all applicable Waste, Water and Air regulations through required preventative maintenance of the equipment, recordkeeping, preparation of reports and activity plans.
• Ability to deliver internal health and safety management courses.
• Provide leadership to site staff, employees and EHS committees that will continue to drive a strong EHS culture.
• Drive EHS compliance through audits, process/equipment review and proactive risk elimination and track corrective actions to closure.
• Coordinate and conduct EHS training for employees, contractors and visitors as needed.
• Compile periodic reports to HQ, work cooperatively with EHS and Sustainability HQ on various simplification and risk reduction projects.
• Ability and willingness to perform essential physical requirements in order to maintain compliance with regulations and business expectations.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Mobile working and home office arrangements make our work routine more flexible.

We offer you a canteen, subsidized meals and free beverages.

According to the job and position, we make sure our employees get regular trainings and coaching to unleash their possibilities.

Your health and well-being is important to us. We have a company doctor and offer company pension plans as well as capital-forming benefits and a group insurance.

Do yourself and our environment a favour and ride two wheels to work. We support you with a JobBike.

Benefit from special conditions with various brands in fashion, technology, leisure and many more.

Your work clothes are being cleaned by us for you.

Creating a great place to work is essential for us, so we live up to our values teamwork, responsibility, integrity, bold innovation and excellence (TRIBE).

Note: Benefits might vary depending on the position.

About Gerresheimer

Gerresheimer is the global partner for pharmaceutics, biotech, healthcare, and cosmetics with a very broad product range for pharmaceutical and cosmetic packaging solutions and drug delivery systems. The company is an innovative solution provider from concept to delivery of the end product. Gerresheimer achieves its ambitious goals through a high level of innovative strength, industrial competence and concentration on quality and customer focus. In developing innovative and sustainable solutions, Gerresheimer relies on a comprehensive international network with numerous innovation and production centers in Europe, America and Asia. Gerresheimer produces close to its customers worldwide with around 12,000 employees and generated annual revenues in 2023 of around EUR 2bn. With its products and solutions, Gerresheimer plays an essential role in people's health and well-being.

Equal Rights

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. All applicants are considered without any regard to color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status or membership, or any other legally protected status. Preference is given to hiring people with disabilities.