Environment, Health and Safety Manager

About Voyant Beauty

As a full-service partner to both leading and emerging brands, Voyant Beauty helps our clients compete in the beauty landscape-offering everything from marketing insights and ingredient research to development and manufacturing of award-winning products. Voyant Beauty specializes in the development and manufacturing of high-performance personal care and beauty products. Our business and our processes are designed to help clients satisfy real consumer needs.

Job Summary & Responsibilities

The Environmental, Health, & Safety Manager will be a hands-on leader with strengths in compliance, facilitation, and collaboration to gain buy-in from employees to leadership in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. As EHS Manager, you will demonstrate success by driving EHS improvements, tackling and implementing EHS projects and initiatives, and with a progressive leadership style to manage, coach, and mentor a small EHS staff.

The Plant EHS Manager will work in our Holmdel, NJ manufacturing facility.

Environmental / Safety

• Facilitate and lead joint employee-management EHS committees.

• Drive and implement a total Safety Culture using behavior-based methodologies.

• Review Safety and Work practices at plant level and conduct Incident Investigations with GM and other facility personnel.

• Facilitate the return to work of injured workers and manages Workers Compensation claims.

• Develop and lead site specific EHS improvement initiatives such as waste reduction, injury avoidance and improved employee involvement.

• Develop, implement, and manage appropriate emergency response programs including ensuring proper training was conducted and drills completed.

• Monitor and ensure compliance with facility environmental permits and acts as a primary liaison with government inspectors.

• Manage the collection, storage, transportation, and shipping of hazardous waste.

• Manage Title V Air Permitting and compliance, wastewater permits, storm water permits, RCRA and remediation programs.

• Provide prompt and complete communications with corporate EHS personnel regarding incidents and spills as required by corporate requirements.

• Conduct routine site review with leadership team to define site-specific EHS goals and monitor progress.

• Conduct and accurately document routine EHS (including security) audits and inspections.

Process Safety Management

• Develop and manage projects related to PSM.

• Prepare activity reports to keep the PSM and EHS team members informed.

• Prepare and maintain the management systems required to maintain compliance.

Training

• OSHA/EPA and other mandatory local, state, and federal topics.

• Develop and promote programs to educate first level Supervisors and Managers to effectively instruct employees.

Security

• Perform audits, reporting and investigations.

• Manage contracted services and support corporate guidelines.

• Manage and coordinate all programs for compliance with PSM and RMP standards.

Education & Qualifications Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (e.g., Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering).

• 5 + years' experience managing or supervising EHS in a manufacturing environment with evidence of continual improvement success.

• Certified Safety Professional or other EHS related certifications a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to identify, develop and deliver a variety of training topics.

• Demonstrated success as a hands-on leader / manager with a sense of urgency and ability to manage multiple priorities and projects under pressure.

• Functional strength in safety management and at least a working knowledge of environmental regulations and the regulatory process.

• Experience with Title V Air Permitting and compliance, wastewater permits, storm water permits, RCRA and remediation programs a plus.

• Must be able to work on an on-call basis (24 / 7 facility).

• Ability to drive organizational change.

• Other tasks as required.

Additional Requirements

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of federal, state/provincial, and local EHS regulations is required.

• Experience in the consumer products industry is a plus.

• Experience with hazardous chemicals is desired.

• Experience with Process Safety Management (PSM), Risk Management Plans (RMP) or E2 is desired.

Voyant Beauty provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Voyant Beauty complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.