Enviornmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Do you want to contribute to a larger purpose to save the lives of infants in the NICU? This is Prolacta Bioscience's mission! Take a look at this opportunity with our Operations team, which is seeking a passionate individual, to fill the role of our EHS Manager. This role will have responsibility for the overall environmental programs for our Duarte and City of Industry sites. The EHS Manager will oversee, develop, and implement safety, industrial hygiene, and environmental programs for a manufacturing operation to ensure compliant, safe, and incident-free work environment.

Who Is Prolacta Bioscience?

We give babies a brighter future by unlocking the biological power of human milk. Established in 1999, Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held life sciences company that has touched the lives of more than 100,000 premature infants globally. Prolacta is the world's leading hospital provider of 100% human milk- based nutritional products. Based in Southern California, we employ more than 300 people globally, many of whom have dedicated their lives to neonatal care.

For more information, please visit www.prolacta.com

How you will contribute

This role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the growth of our organization and develop your professional skills by performing the following duties...

Responsible for safety and industrial hygiene plans, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with local, state, and Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules and regulations. Maintains a system for reporting, monitoring, and correcting serious safety problems.

Responsible for environmental plans policies and procedures to ensure compliance with local, State, and Federal environmental rules and regulations, and conformance to corporate policies for continuous environmental improvement.

Oversees health & safety, environmental, and regulatory audits of all organization facilities and recommends preventative measures.

As needed, ensures that corrective action is initiated by management, and helps establish priorities.

Educate management on Safety and Environmental best practices, prevention and how to work around/with hazardous substances.

Compiles and submits all accident reports required by regulatory agencies.

Implements training programs which will increase proficiency in safe practices, promote safety consciousness, ensure environmental compliance, and advance continuous environmental improvement.

Drives implementation of strategic EH&S initiatives to achieve corporate EH&S objectives; identifies elements of change required to support the EH&S strategy; encourages management team to balance short-term demands with long term benefits of strategic EH&S programs; and inspires commitment and involvement with safety objectives and programs.

Drive EH&S initiatives, which reduce incident rates and environmental impacts while also reducing company costs (e.g., amount of workers' compensation, etc.); establishes order of priority for EH&S initiatives and drives their implementation in cooperation of other managers, EH&S coordinators, safety teams, and other key personnel.

Analyzes safety processes throughout the company; proactively seeks areas of opportunity for improvement; identifies root causes of accidents; recommends changes to work flow, equipment or other process elements; and develops and implements support systems/processes (such as safety rewards and recognitions, safety communications, etc.) to achieve safety objectives.

Communicates and celebrates successes to maintain and foster company-wide commitment to safety and continuous environmental improvement; and provide recommendations for corrective direction when EH&S programs deviate from strategic plans and objectives.

Serves as primary liaison between applicable California regulatory and government agencies. Files and or posts reports as required by external legal and convening agencies.

Formulates, maintains, and executes Prolacta emergency plans and responds to safety and employee emergencies.

Ensures all significant near misses, injuries, and safety events are investigated and abatement measures implemented.

Monitors and controls industrial hygiene, which relates to the long-term effects of factors such as chemical exposure, noise, lighting, heat, and humidity.

Manages hazardous, universal, and E- waste storage and disposal in compliance with all applicable regulations.

Follow all Prolacta Bioscience policies and procedures.

What you bring to the role

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering Discipline (Mechanical/Chemical/Industrial Engineering preferred)
• 10 years' experience applying environmental, health & safety regulations and programs in a manufacturing environment, or equivalent experience preferred
• Experience in ISO environmental management systems preferred.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and/or Certified Industrial Hygienist preferred .OSHA 30 Certification, RCRA Operator Level and DOT HAZMAT Certifications (Current Certification preferred)
• Strong background in ergonomic risk reduction.
• Ability to research and apply regulations.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to handle confidential information appropriately imperative.
• Proven ability to develop safety and continuous environmental improvement as part of the Company culture.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to propose solutions to problems.
• Ability to positively and comfortably handle and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced, changing, and high-growth work environment with focused attention for detail.
• Must be able to travel occasionally, work in a team environment, occasionally work a flexible schedule, and adhere to and explain Prolacta Bioscience policies and procedures.
• Ability to uphold Safety standards, participates in Continuous Process Improvement on the job, and follows our Manufacturing best practices.
• Ability to be on call 24/7 for emergencies.

How Prolacta benefits you

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From up to 100% healthcare coverage starting on your first day and 401(k) match, we value our employees' health and financial wellbeing. We offer four weeks PTO during your first year of employment and support our new parents with a generous time-off program. We encourage employees to participate in our employee affinity groups, take volunteer time off, and provide access to different educational opportunities.

What else do you need to know

Location: City of Industry and Duarte locations

Travel: Up to 5% car travel between locations may be required

FLSA: Exempt

Depending on your residential location certain laws might regulate the way Prolacta manages applicant data. California Residents, please review our Privacy Notice for California Employees and Job Applicants for further information, this can be found on Prolacta.com on www.prolacta.com . By submitting your application, you are agreeing and acknowledging that you have read and understand the above notice.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to effectively communicate (e.g., talking/ hearing), walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach things. The employee is occasionally required to taste, smell, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Sedentary to light work; repetitive motions; pushing; pulling; visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal.

EEO Statement

"Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer." Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is committed to a proactive program of affirmative action and diversity development. The Company will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or veteran status.

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