Bilingual Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Location: Pleasant Prairie, WI

Type: Direct Hire

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm

Pay Range: $100,000 - $120,000 + bonus

Benefits: Yes. Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401(k), Paid holidays

Summary: Connect Search is hiring a Bilingual (English and Spanish) EHS Manager in Pleasant Prairie.

Responsibilities: Embraces and role models Core Values; builds a culture in which every employee and contractor is empowered to identify hazards, stop work when conditions are unsafe, and take ownership for EHS performance. Leads, develops, and retains the site EHS team and competency networks; establishes clear expectations, provides coaching and technical guidance, and builds EHS capability among leaders, supervisors, safety committees, and frontline employees. Owns, maintains, and continuously improves the site EHS management system, compliance calendar, legal register, policies, procedures, records, and governance routines; supports alignment with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 principles and DuPont standards. Ensures compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA, DOT, fire code, workers’ compensation, environmental permit, and state/local requirements; monitors regulatory changes and serves as the primary site interface for inspections, reporting, and agency interactions. Establishes EHS strategy, annual objectives, and leading and lagging metrics; analyzes trends such as serious-injury potential, recordable and lost-time incidents, near misses, corrective-action closure, training completion, audit findings, environmental events, waste, water, and emissions. Leads site risk-management processes, including EHS reviews for capital projects and change management; job hazard analyses, ergonomic assessments, industrial hygiene, machine safety, LOTO, electrical safety, work at height, confined space, hot work, powered industrial trucks, chemical safety, and PPE selection. Leads incident and near-miss reporting, investigation, root-cause analysis, lessons learned, and corrective/preventive action verification; partners with HR and medical providers on injury case management, workers’ compensation, and effective return-to-work programs. Strengthens contractor safety through prequalification, onboarding, permit-to-work controls, field oversight, performance review, and disciplined follow-up for construction, maintenance, sanitation, logistics, and other contracted services. Directs environmental compliance and stewardship programs, including air, water, stormwater, waste, spill prevention and response, chemical management, emergency planning, required reporting, pollution prevention, and site sustainability initiatives. Develops and delivers an effective EHS training and communication system, including new-hire orientation, supervisor capability, emergency response, hazard communication, LOTO, fire prevention, forklift safety, PPE, ergonomics, and other required programs; maintains accurate training records. Leads internal and corporate audits, regulatory inspections, and emergency preparedness drills; ensures readiness, timely closure of findings, and verification that actions are effective and sustained. Drives continuous improvement through Gemba walks, leader standard work, tiered accountability, safety Kaizen, A3, 5 Why, and other structured problem-solving methods; benchmarks and shares best practices across the DuPont network.

Qualifications: Bilingual in English and Spanish. Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related technical field preferred; equivalent relevant manufacturing and EHS experience considered. Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), or comparable certification preferred. ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 Lead Auditor, OSHA 30-Hour, incident-investigation, or Lean/Six Sigma certification preferred.7 years of relevant EHS, manufacturing, engineering, operations, industrial hygiene, environmental, occupational health, or continuous-improvement experience; experience in plastics, flexible packaging, chemical processing, or another 24/7 manufacturing environment preferred.2 years of direct people leadership experience or demonstrated leadership of cross-functional EHS programs, technical networks, and complex improvement initiatives.