Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Dairyfood USA

Blue Mounds, WI

Pay: $90,000-$120,000/yr

Shift: Full time

Dairyfood USA, Inc., a SQF level 3 certified market leader in specialty cheese production for over 70 years, is currently seeking an EHS Manager to develop, implement, and maintain environmental health and safety programs. This position provides leadership to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations while fostering a proactive safety culture that protects employees, contractors, visitors, and the environment.

Based in our production facility in the heart of America’s Dairyland, Blue Mounds, WI, this position reports to the Plant Manager.

**Job Purpose:**

The EHS Manager partners with plant leadership, production, maintenance, sanitation, quality assurance, and human resources to identify hazards, reduce workplace injuries, manage environmental risks, and continuously improve safety performance in a food manufacturing environment.

**Duties and Responsibilities:**

***Environmental, Health & Safety Compliance***

• Develop, implement, and maintain EHS policies, procedures, and programs to meet applicable OSHA, EPA, Wisconsin DNR, and other regulatory requirements.
• Maintain compliance with applicable workplace safety, environmental permitting, wastewater discharge, air emissions, hazardous waste, and chemical management requirements.
• Conduct routine facility inspections, risk assessments, and compliance audits.
• Maintain required EHS documentation, permits, training records, injury logs, and regulatory reports.
• Serve as the primary contact for regulatory inspections and coordinate corrective actions and follow-up activities.
• Monitor changes in applicable regulations and communicate requirements to plant leadership.

***Employee Health & Safety***

• Lead the facility's safety culture and promote employee engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and evaluate hazards associated with cheese production, packaging, warehousing, sanitation, and maintenance operations.
• Manage incident reporting, injury investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop and monitor safety performance metrics, including recordable injuries, lost-time incidents, near misses, and corrective-action completion.
• Conduct job hazard analyses and implement appropriate engineering, administrative, and personal protective equipment controls.
• Coordinate workers' compensation activities, return-to-work programs, and injury prevention initiatives in partnership with Human Resources.
• Lead safety committee meetings and communicate safety performance to employees and leadership.

***Food Manufacturing and Process Safety***

• Oversee safety programs specific to cheese processing operations, including:
• Machine guarding, conveyors, mixers, cutting equipment, and packaging machinery.
• Lockout/tagout (LOTO) for equipment servicing and maintenance.
• Confined-space entry and permit-required confined spaces.
• Chemical handling and sanitation activities, including caustics, acids, and cleaning and sanitizing chemicals.
• Slip, trip, and fall prevention in wet processing areas.
• Forklift, powered industrial truck, pedestrian, and dock safety.
• Ergonomics, repetitive motion, lifting, and material handling.
• Ammonia refrigeration systems and emergency response, where applicable.
• Electrical safety, hot work, contractor safety, and fire prevention.
• Personal protective equipment and hearing conservation.
• Coordinate with Maintenance to ensure appropriate safety controls are incorporated into equipment installations, modifications, and preventive maintenance.
• Support safe startup and shutdown procedures and management-of-change processes for new equipment, chemicals, and production processes.
• Partner with Quality Assurance and Sanitation to ensure safety practices support food safety, hygienic operations, and applicable sanitation requirements.

***Environmental Management***

• Manage environmental compliance programs, including wastewater pretreatment and discharge, stormwater, air emissions, hazardous and nonhazardous waste, and chemical storage.
• Maintain applicable environmental permits, inspections, sampling schedules, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinate waste minimization, recycling, spill prevention, and pollution prevention initiatives.
• Investigate environmental incidents, spills, releases, and permit deviations, implementing corrective actions as necessary.
• Partner with Operations, Sanitation, and Maintenance personnel to control environmental risks associated with dairy processing and cleaning operations.

***Training and Employee Engagement***

• Develop and deliver EHS orientation and ongoing employee training.
• Ensure employees and supervisors receive required training for their job responsibilities and identified hazards.
• Train and coach supervisors on incident prevention, hazard recognition, and accountability.
• Maintain a training matrix and verify training effectiveness.
• Promote employee reporting of haza