Environmental Health & Safety Manager
Lead environmental, health, safety, and site-security programs for a large, high-volume food manufacturing facility. This role owns day-to-day compliance, risk reduction, incident follow-up, training systems, environmental programs, and practical safety improvements across the plant.
The best fit is a hands-on manufacturing EHS leader who can work directly with plant leadership and frontline teams, translate OSHA and EPA requirements into usable programs, and keep a 24/7 operation audit-ready. Experience with process safety, environmental reporting, waste management, incident investigations, and corrective actions will be especially valuable.
Location: West Jordan, UT
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; on-call support and occasional nights, weekends, or holidays as business needs require
Work Setting: Onsite manufacturing environment
Role Type: Contract with potential to convert to perm!
Contract Duration: Approximately 6 months; the role may extend based on performance, business need, funding, and client approval
Openings: 1
Pay Rate: $48.79 per hour
Responsibilities
- Lead site safety, security, health, and environmental programs in support of plant operations and business priorities.
- Build a practical EHS vision that employees and leaders can use to understand and apply safety, environmental, and security expectations.
- Develop risk-assessment methods and systems that anticipate, identify, evaluate, and reduce workplace hazards.
- Develop and maintain training systems that address plant needs, regulatory requirements, and role-specific hazards.
- Allocate resources and coordinate plant and corporate support for priority safety and environmental initiatives.
- Use Integrated Work System tools and performance measures to identify trends, recommend improvements, and track execution with plant leadership.
- Lead incident investigations, root-cause reviews, corrective-action development, and closure tracking.
- Create, audit, and implement programs supporting OSHA and EPA compliance, occupancy planning, chemical storage, noise prevention, air quality, wastewater treatment, and spill prevention and control.
- Maintain the Facility Response Plan and Risk Management Plan and support the site Process Safety Management program.
- Manage environmental reporting, waste-management programs, waste minimization, and recycling initiatives.
- Serve as the primary site contact for local, state, and federal environmental, health, and safety officials.
- Maintain the site security plan and audit-control program and perform other EHS duties needed to support the facility.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience leading or owning EHS programs in a manufacturing, processing, or similarly regulated industrial environment.
- Working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and applicable state and local environmental, health, and safety requirements.
- Hands-on experience with risk assessments, incident investigations, corrective actions, training systems, compliance audits, and regulatory documentation.
- Experience supporting environmental programs such as air, wastewater, chemical storage, spill prevention, waste management, and required reporting.
- Ability to partner with plant leadership, operations, maintenance, engineering, and frontline employees to move safety improvements from recommendation to completion.
- Ability to work onsite, provide on-call support, and adjust to nights, weekends, or holidays when required by a 24/7 manufacturing operation.
- Ability to work around moving equipment, wet or humid conditions, noise, fumes, airborne particles, chemicals, temperature variation, and other normal plant hazards while using required protective equipment.
- Ability to stand, walk, climb stairs or ladders, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds, with reasonable accommodation when applicable.
Preferred Qualifications
- Food, dairy, beverage, consumer-products, or other high-volume process-manufacturing experience.
- Experience with Process Safety Management, Facility Response Plans, Risk Management Plans, SPCC programs, wastewater treatment, and environmental reporting.
- Experience using Integrated Work System or comparable continuous-improvement and performance-management tools.
- Experience serving as the facility contact during regulatory inspections or agency interactions.
- Experience leading safety-culture change, plantwide training, and cross-functional corrective-action programs.
Benefits
Eligible full-time CRG contract employees working at least 30 hours per week may enroll in CRG benefits. Coverage begins on the first day of the month following 30 days after hire.
- Three Aetna medical plan options, including an HSA-compatible option; in-network preventive care is covered in full
- Voluntary dental and vision coverage
- $25,000 in company-paid basic life and AD&D coverage for employees enrolled in a CRG medical plan
- Voluntary life and AD&D, short-term disability, long-term disability, and accident coverage
- Employee-assistance resources and benefit-advocacy support
- Weekly pay and direct deposit
- Referral bonus opportunities
- Support from the CRG recruiting and account management team throughout the assignment
- 401(k) eligibility after 12 months as a CRG employee
Official CRG plan documents and carrier materials control eligibility, coverage, exclusions, limits, waiting periods, payroll deductions, and employee costs.
