Environmental, Health & Safety Operations Manager

Wegmans has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Operations Manager to support the company’s commitment to ensuring world-class standards across its operations. This individual will be responsible for the effective implementation of established and emerging EHS programs.

This role will focus on leading a team of EHS professionals to fully implement effective, efficient, agile, and compliant EHS programs across retail stores operating in 9 states and Washington D.C., corporate offices, three distribution center operations, and multiple manufacturing operations. This role will collaborate cross-functionally to inspire focus and adherence of state, local, and federal EHS regulations, emerging issues, standards, and best methods.

An ideal candidate will have significant EHS compliance background (US focused), be an effective communicator and an experienced leader.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop a team of EHS Professionals by building trust, providing support, and fostering growth through meaningful feedback and opportunities

• Lead the implementation of a cross-collaborative and integrated strategy to drive EHS compliance and incident reduction initiatives as an integral part of our culture, ensuring any new and changing initiatives are effectively being implemented across store operations, corporate, distribution and manufacturing

• Actively seek opportunities to strengthen EHS programs by continually assessing against established EHS programs; identifying opportunities and driving any findings to closure, while ensuring training, policies, standards, and company EHS metrics are met and fully executed

• Lead collaborative teams that will review and advise about topics such as new chemical and equipment approval/use; advising business operations regarding EHS issues related to human safety, industrial hygiene, environmental practices to ensure that they are providing a safe, healthy and environmentally compliant place to work and shop

• Support an EHS on call response team to ensure safe and immediate steps are taken to remedy and report incidents in compliance with regulatory expectations

• Assist with the incident investigation process under tight deadlines and work closely with various business area throughout the organization to investigate escalated issues, understand root cause of incidents and provide recommendations on how to best remedy complex situations; proactively reducing repeat incidents across the organization 

• Maintain up to date information regarding operations EHS performance, work with other EHS Leaders to discuss emerging needs and feedback, EHS Management System, and Federal, State, Local and International regulations; determine how this information may be useful to Wegmans, and make recommendations to management

Required Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of EHS experience
• Bachelor's degree in the EHS field, or a related field in combination with a CSP (Certified Safety Professional), CHMM (Certified Hazardous Materials Manager) certification, or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH)
• 5 years of leadership experience with a team of direct reports
• Experience leading divisional or companywide initiatives or projects
• Demonstrate sound judgment, integrity, and discretion with confidential information
• Ability to travel
• Experience with ISO, ANSI, other EHS management systems and programs
• Advanced functional knowledge of environmental, occupational health and safety regulations and agencies, including, but not limited to EPA, OSHA, DOL, and state-delegated programs

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Degree
• Food Manufacturing, Retail, and Supply Chain experience
• CSP: Certified Safety Professional - BCSP: Board of Certified Safety Professionals
• ASP: Associate Safety Professional - BCSP: Board of Certified Safety Professionals
• CHMM: Certified Hazardous Materials Manager - IHMM: Institute of Hazardous Materials Management
• CIH: Certified Industrial Hygienist
• Advanced knowledge of EHS software / compliance management system
• Experience with quality management systems (ex. SQF, ISO, ANSI)