Armtec Defense Technologies

Makes ammunition parts and aircraft defensive decoys

Environmental Health and Safety Manager

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Full-timeCoachella, CA, USA$100.4k - $170k

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Safety, Environmental Engineering, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related technical discipline is required; equivalent advanced education and directly relevant experience may be considered where appropriate.
At least 7 years of progressive environmental, health, and safety experience in industrial manufacturing, including leadership responsibility.
Experience in a high-hazard manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading safety-culture change, change management, and measurable improvement of safety systems through hands-on leadership.
Strong working knowledge of process safety, Process Hazard Analysis, Management of Change, incident investigation and root-cause analysis, industrial safety, environmental compliance, and risk management.
Experience in an energetics-related field and familiarity with applicable Department of Defense explosives-safety requirements, including DoD 4145.26, and process-safety practices for explosives and pyrotechnics manufacturing are highly desired.
Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, or equivalent is preferred but not required.
Must be dependable, responsible, accurate, action-oriented, and comfortable spending significant time in the manufacturing environment across shifts as needed.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.
Must be eligible for any required authorization from the U.S. Government to conform to U.S. export control regulations.
Demonstrate the competencies expected of a senior leader, including timely and high-quality decisions, managerial courage, delegation, development of direct reports, process management, change leadership, business acumen, learning agility, planning, priority setting, conflict management, cross-functional influence, and a drive for results.
Understand and comply with Armtec's ethics and business conduct policies.

Responsibilities

Own and continuously improve the site environmental, health, and safety management system and annual safety strategy, with progress toward zero energetic material ignitions as a primary operating objective.
Lead, coach, and develop the Safety and Environmental team; establish clear expectations, build technical and leadership capability, and hold the function accountable for timely, high-quality execution.
Maintain a visible presence on the manufacturing floor by routinely observing high-risk work, engaging supervisors and employees, verifying critical controls, and ensuring gaps are corrected promptly.
Lead safety-culture and change-management efforts so leaders and employees understand hazards, follow standards, exercise stop-work authority, report concerns, learn from events, and take ownership for safe execution.
Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, Department of Defense, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Occupational Safety and Health Administration/Cal/OSHA, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, National Fire Protection Association, and other safety and environmental requirements affecting the site.
Lead applicable Process Safety Management and energetic-material safety systems, including Process Hazard Analyses, Management of Change, pre-startup safety reviews, Quantity-Distance controls, safe storage and handling, and ignition-source and static-control requirements.
Ensure environmental, health, and safety requirements are incorporated before implementation of new products, materials, equipment, automation, capital projects, process changes, production restarts, and other changes that can alter site risk.
Own and continuously improve critical high-risk work-control systems, including lockout/tagout, confined-space entry, hot work, machine safety, electrical safety, and other permit or control systems applicable to site operations.
Lead root-cause investigations for injuries, near misses, fires, energetic-material ignitions, environmental events, and significant unsafe conditions; ensure corrective actions address systemic causes and are verified for sustained effectiveness.
Own industrial hygiene and occupational-health systems, including applicable exposure monitoring, lead controls, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, personal protective equipment, ergonomics, medical surveillance, and partnership with Human Resources on compliant return-to-work processes.
Own the site environmental compliance management system, including applicable hazardous-waste, air, wastewater, stormwater, spill-prevention, permitting, reporting, inspection, and recordkeeping requirements.
Lead emergency preparedness and response systems, including fire, spill, medical, rescue, evacuation, drills, and coordination with local emergency-response organizations.
Use a disciplined risk-management process to prioritize environmental, health, and safety resources and improvement activity toward the site's highest-consequence hazards and recurring risk exposures.
Partner with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, and Quality to eliminate or engineer out hazards, improve process stability, and design safer processes rather than relying primarily on administrative controls or personal protective equipment.
Integrate safety into daily management systems, standard work, leader standard work, visual management, process reviews, and continuous-improvement activity so safety is managed as part of operational excellence.
Track and communicate leading and lagging safety and environmental indicators, trends, significant risks, corrective-action status, and resource needs to site leadership with clear recommendations.
Serve as the primary site contact for regulatory inspections and safety and environmental agency interactions; ensure findings and commitments are resolved completely and on time.
Manage environmental, health, and safety resources, outside technical support, and departmental priorities to improve risk reduction, responsiveness, and the effectiveness of the site safety system.
Maintain the highest ethical standards, including when challenged from above.
Demonstrate sustained progress toward zero energetic material ignitions, including elimination of repeat ignition mechanisms and timely closure of high-consequence corrective actions.
Reduce serious safety risk and injury exposure through prevention, stronger controls, improved standards, and leader and employee engagement rather than under-reporting or administrative classification.
Maintain effective Process Hazard Analysis, Management of Change, pre-startup review, high-risk-work, industrial-hygiene, environmental, and emergency-response systems with timely and sustained corrective-action closure.
Achieve strong regulatory and environmental-compliance performance and prevent repeat findings or recurring systemic deficiencies.
Build a stronger safety culture demonstrated by visible leadership, employee participation, stop-work ownership, learning from near misses, and disciplined follow-through by supervisors and managers.
Demonstrate that safety-system improvements improve process stability and support better quality, reliability, productivity, and production performance while reducing operational risk.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in a high-hazard manufacturing environment.
Experience in an energetics-related field and familiarity with applicable Department of Defense explosives-safety requirements, including DoD 4145.26, and process-safety practices for explosives and pyrotechnics manufacturing.
Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, or equivalent.

Environmental Health and Safety Manager, Armtec Defense Technologies
Armtec Defense Technologies (Armtec) is an operating unit of the Transdigm Group (NYSE: TDG), an industry leader in aerospace and defense products and services. Armtec is comprised of three business units producing subcomponents for ordnance in Coachella, CA; decoy countermeasure flares in Camden AR; and radar countermeasure chaff in Lillington NC. At Armtec, we welcome skilled and enthusiastic people who share our determination and high standards to join us in our mission-critical work supporting the US and allied war-fighters who serve us all by defending democracy and protecting freedom. This position is staffed in Coachella, at Armtec’s world-class, sole-source production facility for felted fiber nitrocellulose combustible cartridge cases for medium and large caliber military ammunition; and pyrophoric payloads for training grenades.
Company Profile
Company: Armtec Defense Technologies is an operating unit of the TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG).
Industry: Manufacturing Combustible Ordnance and Countermeasures
Job Overview
Title: Environmental Health and Safety Manager
Job Family: Operations Management
Reports to: Site Leader
Works with: Site Leadership, Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Human Resources, Facilities, Security, Materials, Planning, Program Management, employees, contractors, regulatory agencies, and emergency-response organizations
Location: Coachella, California
Type: Full-Time
Job Summary
Armtec manufactures energetic nitrocellulose-based products where prevention of energetic material ignition is a fundamental operating priority. The Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Manager is the site leader responsible for continuously improving the safety systems that protect employees, the community, and the business through hands-on ownership, visible leadership, disciplined follow-through, and sustained culture change.
Armtec is striving toward a goal of zero energetic material ignitions. Achieving this requires more than regulatory compliance. It requires strong process safety, industrial safety, environmental stewardship, rigorous change management, and a culture in which employees and leaders understand hazards, follow standards, speak up, stop work when necessary, and take personal ownership for safe execution.
The EH&S Manager partners closely with Production, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Human Resources, Facilities, Security, Materials, Planning, and Program leadership to embed safety into how work is designed and performed. Armtec believes that safer, more stable, and better-controlled processes improve quality, reliability, productivity, schedule performance, and employee engagement. This leader is expected to help the organization demonstrate that connection through measurable results.
Primary Responsibilities

Own and continuously improve the site EH&S management system and annual safety strategy, with progress toward zero energetic material ignitions as a primary operating objective.
Lead, coach, and develop the Safety and Environmental team; establish clear expectations, build technical and leadership capability, and hold the function accountable for timely, high-quality execution.
Maintain a strong and visible presence on the manufacturing floor, routinely observing high-risk work, engaging supervisors and employees, verifying that critical controls are effective, and ensuring gaps are corrected promptly.
Lead safety culture and change-management efforts so that leaders and employees understand hazards, follow standards, exercise stop-work authority, report concerns, learn from events, and take ownership for safe execution.
Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, local, Department of Defense, ATF, OSHA/Cal/OSHA, EPA, DOT, NFPA, and other safety and environmental requirements affecting the site.
Lead applicable Process Safety Management and energetic-material safety systems, including Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), Management of Change (MOC), pre-startup safety reviews, Quantity-Distance controls, safe storage and handling, and ignition-source/static-control requirements.
Ensure EH&S requirements are incorporated before implementation of new products, materials, equipment, automation, capital projects, process changes, production restarts, and other changes that can alter site risk.
Own and continuously improve critical high-risk work-control systems, including lockout/tagout, confined-space entry, hot work, machine safety, electrical safety, and other permit or control systems applicable to site operations.
Lead root-cause investigations for injuries, near misses, fires, energetic-material ignitions, environmental events, and significant unsafe conditions; ensure corrective actions address systemic causes and are verified for sustained effectiveness.
Own industrial hygiene and occupational-health systems, including applicable exposure monitoring, lead controls, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, PPE, ergonomics, medical surveillance, and partnership with Human Resources on compliant return-to-work processes.
Own the site environmental compliance management system, including applicable hazardous-waste, air, wastewater, stormwater, spill-prevention, permitting, reporting, inspection, and recordkeeping requirements.
Lead emergency preparedness and response systems, including fire, spill, medical, rescue, evacuation, drills, and coordination with local emergency-response organizations.
Use a disciplined risk-management process to prioritize EH&S resources and improvement activity toward the site’s highest-consequence hazards and recurring risk exposures.
Partner with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, and Quality to eliminate or engineer out hazards, improve process stability, and design safer processes rather than relying primarily on administrative controls or PPE.
Integrate safety into daily management systems, standard work, leader standard work, visual management, process reviews, and continuous-improvement activity so safety is managed as part of operational excellence.
Track and communicate leading and lagging safety and environmental indicators, trends, significant risks, corrective-action status, and resource needs to site leadership with clear recommendations.
Serve as the primary site contact for regulatory inspections and safety/environmental agency interactions; ensure findings and commitments are resolved completely and on time.
Manage EH&S resources, outside technical support, and departmental priorities in a manner that improves risk reduction, responsiveness, and the effectiveness of the site safety system.
Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above.
Understand and live by Armtec’s ethics and business conduct policies.

Key Performance Expectations

Demonstrate sustained progress toward zero energetic material ignitions, including elimination of repeat ignition mechanisms and timely closure of high-consequence corrective actions.
Reduce serious safety risk and injury exposure through prevention, stronger controls, improved standards, and leader/employee engagement rather than through under-reporting or administrative classification.
Maintain effective PHA, MOC, pre-startup review, high-risk-work, industrial-hygiene, environmental, and emergency-response systems with timely and sustained corrective-action closure.
Achieve strong regulatory and environmental-compliance performance and prevent repeat findings or recurring systemic deficiencies.
Build a stronger safety culture demonstrated by visible leadership, employee participation, stop-work ownership, learning from near misses, and disciplined follow-through by supervisors and managers.
Demonstrate that safety-system improvements improve process stability and support better quality, reliability, productivity, and production performance while reducing operational risk.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Environmental Engineering, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related technical discipline; equivalent advanced education and directly relevant experience may be considered where appropriate.
Minimum of 7 years of progressive EH&S experience in industrial manufacturing, including leadership responsibility; experience in a high-hazard manufacturing environment is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading safety-culture change, change management, and measurable improvement of safety systems through hands-on leadership.
Strong working knowledge of process safety, PHA, MOC, incident investigation/root-cause analysis, industrial safety, environmental compliance, and risk management.
Excellent communication, coaching, and people-development skills with the ability to influence Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, and senior leadership.
Highly desired: experience in an energetics-related field and familiarity with applicable Department of Defense explosives-safety requirements, including DoD 4145.26, and process-safety practices for explosives and pyrotechnics manufacturing.
Professional certification such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or equivalent is preferred but not required.
Must be dependable, responsible, accurate, action-oriented, and comfortable spending significant time in the manufacturing environment across shifts as needed.

Armtec Competencies
Demonstrate the Armtec competencies expected of a senior leader, including timely and high-quality decisions, managerial courage, delegation, development of direct reports, process management, change leadership, business acumen, learning agility, planning, priority setting, conflict management, cross-functional influence, and a relentless drive for results.
Education & Professional Work Experience Requirements

Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorization from the U.S. Government.

Work Hours
4/10 workweek; this leadership role requires flexibility to support all operating shifts, high-risk work, regulatory activity, and emergency response as business needs require.
To Apply
Please apply on-line on the Armtec Career Website, www.armtecdefense.com
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Salary Range: $100,387 - $170,000

Benefits

Medical

Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account (HSA) with generous company contribution
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA - Medical & Dependent Care)
Life and Accident Death and Dismemberment Insurance
Disability Insurance
Parent Leave Pay
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Vacation
Sick Leave
Holidays (8 paid holiday including holiday shutdown weeks in July and December)
401(k) matching
Tuition Assistance

About the Company

Armtec Defense Technologies

Makes ammunition parts and aircraft defensive decoys

Armtec Defense Technologies manufactures ammunition components and defensive decoys for U.S. and allied militaries. Its combustible cases and charge containers form part of tank, artillery and mortar ammunition, while aircraft use its flares and radar-reflecting chaff to distract incoming missiles. Armtec earns revenue from product sales to armed forces and defense contractors, which incorporate its components into military ammunition and aircraft defense systems. It makes ammunition components in California and countermeasures at facilities in California, Arkansas and North Carolina. Founded in 1968, Armtec is headquartered in Coachella, California, and operates as part of TransDigm Group.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Coachella, CA
Founded: 1968

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