Environmental Specialist

Environmental Specialist / EHS Specialist
Location: On-site Concord NC
Salary: $73000$75000 base

You will be the environmental goto for a complex highly engineered manufacturing operation. This is a handson role embedded on-site in Concord where you will:

• Lead environmental programs compliance and reporting across the plant
• Support health & safety but as a secondary component of the job
• Act as an internal advisor to maintenance engineering and operations on environmental risk permitting and practical compliance
• Help reshape how the site thinks about environmental performance as part of overall EHS

This is not a consulting role. We need someone who has worked in manufacturing not only with manufacturers as a consultant.

Experience

• Solid track record in an industrial / manufacturing environment (plant factory production)
• Handson experience with:
  • Environmental compliance (air water waste hazardous materials etc.)
  • Environmental aspects of EHS programs (permitting reporting audits inspections corrective actions)
  • Working crossfunctionally with operations maintenance engineering and/or production teams
• Evidence that you have implemented or significantly driven environmental initiatives not just maintained a program someone else built
• ISO14001 experience

Health & Safety

• Background in safety is needed but as a secondary skillset:
  • Participation in safety programs inspections incident investigations and training
  • Understanding of OSHA requirements in a manufacturing context
• Safety experience on its own without environmental depth is not sufficient for this role.

Internal title may be EHS Specialist / Environmental Specialist but the core responsibilities include:

• Own and drive the environmental agenda for the Concord site
• Ensure daytoday compliance with relevant environmental regulations and internal standards
• Prepare and maintain required environmental documentation reporting and records
• Lead or support environmental audits and followup on corrective and preventive actions
• Partner with maintenance engineering and operations on:
  • Environmental risk assessments for projects and changes
  • Environmental controls on equipment processes and materials
  • Practical solutions that work on the plant floor
• Contribute to EHS training communications and culturebuilding activities especially where environmental topics are involved
• Support broader safety programs (inspections incident investigations etc.) as needed

Were interested in people who:

• Selfidentify as environmental specialists within EHS not purely as safety people
• Are comfortable in a plant environment and talking to maintenance engineers and operators on the floor
• Can explain environmental concepts in clear practical language