Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Job Details: Job Location: Sherman - Sherman, TX, Position Type: Full Time, Salary Range: Undisclosed, The primary purpose of the position is to lead the Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) program at Trident Solutions’ Sherman, Texas facility, a Presco Polymers manufacturing site operating 24/7 across Extrusion, Compounding, Slitting, Wire, Stake Flags, Shipping, and Maintenance. The EH&S Manager owns regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, and TCEQ), drives an injury-free culture through hazard elimination and employee engagement, and manages the site’s EH&S training program. This is a hands-on, floor-based role and a working member of the plant leadership team.Qualifications: EH&S Manager Responsibilities:Essential Job Functions – Health & Safety: Safety Management System: Own the site’s written safety programs, procedures, and records under OSHA General Industry (29 CFR 1910), including Lockout/Tagout and machine-specific energy control procedures, machine guarding, powered industrial trucks, hazard communication, PPE hazard assessments, hearing conservation, respiratory protection, confined space, hot work, electrical safe work practices, and emergency action and fire prevention plans. Review and update each program at least annually. Incident Investigation: Lead investigations of all injuries, near misses, and property-damage incidents to root cause (5-Why, fishbone), assign corrective and preventive actions, verify their effectiveness, and communicate lessons learned to all four crews. Recordkeeping & Agency Response: Maintain OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 records, complete the annual electronic injury data submission, and manage the site’s response to any OSHA inspection or inquiry. Workers’ Compensation: Partner with HR to manage workers’ compensation claims, return-to-work, and transitional duty, reducing cost to the company while ensuring appropriate care of employees. Risk Assessment & Change Management: Complete job hazard analyses (JHAs) for routine tasks and risk assessments for new equipment, process changes, and capital projects. Serve as the EH&S approver in the Management of Change (MOC) process. Contractor Safety: Pre-qualify contractors, conduct site orientation, issue and audit work permits (hot work, confined space, LOTO, working at heights), and audit contractor work areas. Industrial Hygiene & Ergonomics: Manage noise surveys and the annual audiometric testing program, airborne dust and chemical exposure monitoring, heat illness prevention for Texas summer conditions, and ergonomic assessments for high-repetition work such as stake flag assembly, slitting, and packaging. Combustible Dust: Lead the Dust Hazard Analysis (NFPA 652/654) for compounding, resin and additive handling, and dust collection systems, and drive mitigation actions to closure. Safety Committee: Lead a Safety Committee with hourly representation from every crew and department, and turn operator input into tracked, completed improvement actions. PPE & Supplies: Specify, stock, and control the cost of all PPE and safety supplies, ensuring adequate supply on every shift.Essential Job Functions – Environmental: Permits & Compliance: Maintain compliance with federal, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and local requirements, including air authorizations (permits by rule / standard permits), stormwater (TPDES Multi-Sector General Permit and SWPPP), SPCC, and wastewater discharge requirements as applicable. Waste Management: Manage hazardous, universal, and non-hazardous waste streams, generator status, manifests, and used oil. Drive recycling and reuse of scrap film, purge, wire, and packaging to minimize landfill cost. Environmental Reporting: Complete all required reports on time, including EPCRA Tier II, TRI (if applicable), emissions inventories, stormwater monitoring, and permit renewals. Pellet Containment: Lead plastic pellet and flake loss prevention (Operation Clean Sweep practices) at silos, railcar and truck unloading, compounding, and extrusion areas to keep resin out of stormwater. Chemical Management: Maintain the SDS library and a chemical approval process for new resins, additives, inks, adhesives, and maintenance chemicals.Essential Job Functions – Training & Safety Culture: EH&S Training Program: Own the site EH&S training matrix and annual training calendar. Deliver or coordinate new-hire safety orientation, annual refreshers, and task certifications (forklift, LOTO authorized/affected, HazCom, first aid/CPR/AED, fire extinguisher) across all four rotating crews, including nights and weekends. Training Records: Track training completion in Paycom and report compliance by department and crew to the leadership team. Integrated Training: Partner with Production, Quality, and Maintenance so operator standard work, quality, and safety training are delivered together rather than in silos. Floor Leadership: Conduct regular safety walks, behavior-based observations, and housekeeping audits. Coach supervisors and department leads to own safety on their shift. Lean & TPM Integration: Build EH&S into the plant’s Lean and TPM systems: safety first at tier meetings, 5S audits, safety items in autonomous maintenance tagging, and EH&S review of kaizen events. Emergency Preparedness: Lead evacuation, severe-weather, and spill response drills; maintain the first-aid/first-responder team; and coordinate with local fire and EMS. Budget: Prepare and manage the EH&S budget and justify capital safety and environmental improvements.Key Performance Indicators: Lagging: Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), DART rate, lost-time cases, and first-aid cases. Leading: near-miss reports, safety observations, on-time closure of corrective actions, and audit scores. EH&S training compliance by department and crew. Zero environmental permit deviations or notices of violation; all agency reports submitted on time. Workers’ compensation claim count and cost.Key Competencies: Performing all job functions in a safe manner, follow and enforce all TRIDENT policies and procedures. Critical evaluation of systems and procedures to challenge the status quo and drive for excellence in EH&S performance. Credible, visible presence on the floor; comfortable coaching operators, leads, and supervisors and holding them accountable. Translating regulations into practical, plain-language procedures and training that operators actually use. Using leading and lagging data to find risk early and focus resources where they matter most. Ability to execute both individually and through supervisors and department leads across a 24/7 rotating schedule. Leading housekeeping efforts and always maintaining a clean and safe work environment in all departments. Identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities.Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience considered. 5+ years of EH&S experience in a manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years in a lead or manager role. Plastics extrusion, film converting, compounding, or wire processing experience preferred. Working knowledge of OSHA General Industry standards and EPA and TCEQ environmental regulations. OSHA 30-Hour General Industry required. CSP, ASP, CHMM, or similar certification preferred, or willingness to pursue. Experience with environmental permitting and reporting (air, stormwater, waste, Tier II). Experience designing and delivering adult training; OSHA 500/501 or forklift train-the-trainer certification a plus.Skills & Abilities: Bilingual English/Spanish strongly preferred. Possesses strong communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to present to both the production floor and senior leadership. Possesses excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); experience with Paycom or a similar HRIS/learning system a plus. Understands production rates and production schedules. Ability to balance and achieve results in the areas of Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost Reduction. Must have the ability to complete two or more tasks simultaneously. Self-motivated and able to work with little or no supervision and maintain a working and up-to-date knowledge of regulations, products, and processes. Must be able to handle self in a professional manner with co-workers and supervisors. Ability to take responsibility for self and team.Physical Requirements & Work Environment: Must be available to work flexible hours, including periodic nights and weekends to reach all crews, and to respond to after-hours incidents. Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time. Must be able to continually bend, stoop, crouch, reach above shoulder, use arms, wrists, grasp and squeeze with hands, access constricted spaces, and lift and carry up to 75 lbs. Must be able to wear required PPE, including hearing protection and, when required, a respirator. Must be able to withstand occasional exposure to dusty or dirty ambient conditions, hot or cold ambient conditions, and mild chemical irritants.Training: Training would be a mixture of online training on safety, quality, and production procedures along with on-the-job training conducted by management group peers. Additional training would be provided as needed by the Plant Manager, Presco corporate resources, and external resources such as the insurance carrier’s loss-control team. Training duration would normally be 3 months.