EHS Manager

Position Summary

The EHS Manager is responsible for leading all environmental, health, safety, and regulatory compliance activities for Barksdale's Los Angeles manufacturing facility. This role serves as the site's subject matter expert and strategic leader for EHS, driving a proactive safety culture while ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. The successful candidate will partner closely with plant leadership and employees to reduce risk, prevent injuries, strengthen environmental stewardship, and support operational excellence. This highly visible role requires hands-on leadership, strong regulatory knowledge, effective employee engagement, and the ability to lead incident investigations, regulatory interactions, audits, training programs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities (includes, but is not limited to):

• Develop and execute site EHS strategy aligned with business objectives and Crane Company standards.
• Lead initiatives that foster a proactive safety culture through employee engagement, coaching, observations, training, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to site leadership on EHS risks, compliance obligations, and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable Cal OSHA, OSHA, EPA, DTSC, SCAQMD, SWRCB, and local regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact during regulatory inspections, audits, investigations, and agency inquiries.
• Maintain all required permits, reporting obligations, environmental records, and compliance documentation.
• Monitor regulatory developments and implement changes necessary to maintain compliance.
• Lead investigations involving injuries, environmental incidents, near misses, property damage, and regulatory findings.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Perform risk assessments, ergonomic evaluations, job hazard analyses, and exposure assessments to identify and mitigate workplace hazards.
• Develop and deliver EHS training programs for all levels of the organization.
• Maintain emergency response, evacuation, spill response, and business continuity programs.
• Coordinate emergency drills and serve as a lead resource during crisis events.
• Establish and monitor EHS metrics including TRIR, DART, near miss reporting, safety observations, corrective action closure rates, and environmental performance indicators.
• Lead environmental and safety audits and support third party certification audits, including ISO 14001.
• Prepare monthly EHS reports and recommend improvement initiatives and capital investments to reduce risk and improve performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering, Occupational Safety, Public Health, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive EHS experience, including at least 3 years in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing environmental compliance programs, occupational safety programs, regulatory audits, and permitting requirements.
• Experience leading incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action management.
• Strong knowledge of Cal OSHA, OSHA, EPA, hazardous waste regulations, environmental permits, and emergency preparedness requirements.
• Proven ability to build a strong safety culture and improve safety performance through employee engagement, behavioral safety initiatives, coaching, and continuous improvement programs.
• Strong project management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Professional certifications such as CSP, ASP, CIH, CHMM, REHS, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems preferred.
• Experience interacting directly with regulatory agencies and managing consultants preferred.

Salary range: $125,000 to $135,000

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Crane Company. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, general identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.