Manager, Environmental Health & Safety

Integra LifeSciences is seeking a Manager of Environmental Health & Safety in Braintree, MA. The role involves planning and coordinating EHS activities in office and manufacturing settings, ensuring compliance with OSHA and EPA regulations, and fostering a strong safety culture. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in science or engineering, 10 years of EHS experience, and relevant certifications. This position is not remote.
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Summary

The EHS Manager plans, directs, and coordinates activities concerned with Environmental, Health and Safety in both office and manufacturing settings.  Provides guidance to personnel in both office and manufacturing for personal health and safety in their daily work activities.  Ensures environmental and safety compliance for overall site location and within the manufacturing operations performed at the site.

Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other duties may also be assigned.
• Manages site requirements for all Environmental, Health, and Safety activities. 
• Provides professional EH&S services to the office and manufacturing personnel within the Integra Mansfield MA facility.
• Establishes and monitors standards, policies, and procedures for environmental health and safety requirements of the manufacturing facility
• Responsible for knowledge of and adherence to the policies and procedures as they relate to the requirements OSHA and the EPA. Monitors plant and department compliance to OSHA and EPA regulations.
• Acts as the primary contact/liaison between key regulatory agencies such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), US Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 (EPA), Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) and town wastewater authorities
• Creates and manages the site’s Safety Committee.  Interfaces with frontline employees to help leverage EH&S policies across the site and cultivates a strong safety culture.
• Comfortable with routinely performing Risk Assessments and developing Job Hazard Analysis to ensure the health and safety of site staff
• Familiar with various regulatory reporting requirements such as OSHA 300 logs, Tier II, Discharge Monitoring Reports, Spill Prevention Control Countermeasure (SPCC), Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPP)
• Experience with wastewater treatment systems and permitting as well as interfacing with town and state regulatory officials  
• Consulting with site staff to perform safety assessment on new machinery with a concentration in machine guarding mechanisms

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required for this position.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering is required.  Master’s degree in environmental health and safety is strongly preferred and will be given top consideration.
• Experience:  Minimum of 10 years of experience in EH&S is required, preferably with some years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
• EH&S facility/site audit experience is required.
• EH&S credentials such as but not limited to: 1) CHMM 2) CIH 3) CSP 4) CSHO or equivalent are required.
• Familiarity with external environmental rules and regulations as applicable to a medical manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with local and state environmental regulations within the state of MA.
• Ability to interact with, select, and manage EH&S service contractors and facility service providers.
• Demonstrated comprehension of Work Instructions and Standard Operating Procedures related to Facilities and Equipment to enable application of EH&S principles.
• Experience reading and interpreting documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Must be self-motivated, have good interpersonal skills, capable of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought and experience.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills.