Environmental, Health and Safety Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

Chatsworth Products (CPI) is an employee-owned manufacturer with four sites in California, Texas and North Carolina. The EH&S Manager leads environmental, health and safety across all sites, managing three site Safety Coordinators, serving as CPI’s primary contact with OSHA and environmental agencies, and building a proactive safety culture.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Team Leadership & Program Management

• Supervision: Leads and develops three site Safety Coordinators.
• Goals & Metrics: Sets annual proactive safety goals and reports progress at Quarterly Owners Meetings.
• Audits: Conducts regular safety audits at each site to ensure OSHA readiness and drive corrective action.
• Compliance Programs: Manages the corporate compliance calendar (required training, drills and inspections), safety recordkeeping and monthly Safety Huddles.
• Business Continuity: Maintains CPI’s disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
• Budget: Develops and manages the EHS operating budget for all four sites.

Regulatory Compliance

• Health and Safety: Develops, updates and enforces written safety policies based on the risks and exposures at each facility, meeting Cal/OSHA (Title 8, IIPP), North Carolina DOL and Federal OSHA requirements.
• Agency Relations: Represents CPI during OSHA inspections and complaints, including abatement and informal conferences.
• Environmental: Manages permits, monitoring and reporting (stormwater, hazardous waste, wastewater, air and chemical inventory) with signatory authority; selects and directs outside consultants as needed.
• Sustainability: Supports greenhouse gas reporting, ISO 14001 adoption and product environmental declarations (REACH, RoHS, Prop 65, etc.).
• Risk & Insurance: Partners with HR on workers’ compensation; coordinates insurer loss-prevention visits and industrial hygiene surveys.

Systems Administration

EHS & Security Systems: Administers the EHS management software (incident reporting, audits, SDS, etc.), safety and site security access systems.

Additional Functions:

• Serves as a company-wide EHS resource and promotes every employee-owner’s responsibility for safety.

Performs other related duties as assigned.