Job Description

Clean Earth is a leading provider of environmental services in the United States providing remediation, disposal, recycling, and beneficial reuse solutions for hazardous and non-hazardous waste, contaminated soil, and dredged material. Our vast portfolio of technologies and services touches nearly every industry that generates waste including energy, infrastructure, commercial, industrial, retail, and healthcare markets.

Every day our teams across the country take a hands-on, dedicated approach to recycling and beneficially reusing waste that would otherwise go into landfills. We value our employees as our most important asset, and this is reflected in many areas across our company including recently being named a 2024 Most Loved Workplace ®. We are committed to creating a positive work culture that fosters growth and development while ensuring the health and safety of our employees

Job Description

Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager 

The EHS Manager partners with area employees, managers and the director across all designated operations in order to facilitate and improve the region’s ability to meet safety and compliance standards and promote the organizations safety values & principles. The role of the EHS manager is to co-own continuous safety improvement with the Operation Managers and Directors in order to reduce and prevent occupational injuries, vehicle incidents and liability claims.

The EHS manager conducts audits, provides technical and professional training for employees, and works shoulder to shoulder with area and district employees to improve the quality and consistency of safety training, standards, communications and program implementation. The position reports directly to the EHS Director with a dotted line reporting relationship to the respective Operations Director.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Partner with the Operations Director across all aspects of safety – co-own operational safety performance 

• Partner with site Safety Champions 

• Visible in all areas in the operations throughout the year

• Provide company and industry safety training.

• Provide safety training and indoctrination of all new area managers and promotions within their respective area.

• Make use of lessons learned from incidents and audits, share them with the EHS Director and Safety Committees in order to develop safety alerts for the purpose of reducing incidents and injuries.

• Perform safety audits at operations, offices and onsite vehicles. 

• Follow up on audit corrective action items to ensure remedies are being completed within the established timeline.

• Perform incident response & investigation as required. 

• Foster continual development of the Safety Committee. advice and counsel as necessary.

• Perform special projects as required by the EHS Director, Operations Director or Corporate Safety Staff 

• Other safety & training related duties as they arise (include employee training as necessary)

• Assist Managers with their responsibility to be in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations and company policies and procedures. 

• Proactively coaches team members in the various facets of safety performance and leads by example.

• Regularly reinforces safety messages by conducting behavioral safety observations, safety briefings and tailgate meetings, and facility safety walk-throughs to provide a strong visible presence in driving safety at the operational level. 

• Actively participates on regularly scheduled conference calls or meetings with Safety Champions to promote involvement, engagement, and consistency to help insure a safe work environment.

Qualifications

Education and Experience Required:

· 4 year Degree in safety or a technical discipline required.

Working conditions:

EHS manager typically has heavy travel schedule, with exposure to hazardous or caustic chemicals and outside weather conditions, along with vehicles, moving equipment, mechanical parts and flammable materials, vibration and loud noise. The employee will be working in both office and external work environments including riding a long with drivers performing customer pick ups.

· A minimum of 10 years in a Safety related field requiring ability to manage and supervise over a large geographic area.

· Experience in chemical storage and distribution equipment design, operations and maintenance is preferred and / or highly desirable.

· Computer skills (Microsoft Office and basic internet) require

Additional Information

Clean Earth offers competitive benefits including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans starting on the first day of employment; paid time off, wellness benefits, employee discount program, tuition assistance, and a 401k with company matching.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or genetics. 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.

If you have a difficulty applying for any job posted on Harsco Clean Earth’s website because a disability prevents you from using the online system, Clean Earth offers the following alternate application procedure: Call toll free (833) 209-2659 and leave your name, phone number, city and state of residence. Clean Earth will arrange for an alternate method of applying and will consider your application together with all other applications received for the job. This line is dedicated to disability applications only. No other inquiries will receive a response. 

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