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Environmental Health and Safety Manager

DeZURIK
Gastonia, NC
General Summary

The Environmental Health and Safety Manager serves as the safety expert for DeZURIK’s Gastonia, North Carolina site, developing and directing the implementation of programs necessary to develop a proactive safety culture. This role also helps manage a comprehensive safety system that controls cost and risk and focuses on cultural improvements with leading and lagging indicators as the driving metric. This role has a behavior-based safety focus on complete trust and cooperation between the leaders and team members. The Environmental Health and Safety Manager is an environmental steward for the site, ensuring all environmental compliance is within Federal, State, County, and City regulatory requirements.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities (essential Functions)

  • Analyze and identify common safety/health hazards inherent in the organization’s operations, and establish processes and procedures for protection from those hazards.
  • Identifies applicable regulatory requirements and establishes procedures for their implementation.
  • Acts as environmental liaison with third-party contractors to ensure county, state, and federal requirements. Ensures compliance and facilitates decreasing the environmental footprint.
  • Audits safety programs for compliance with company standards, government regulations, and unique local conditions.
  • Partners with the Director of EHS to monitor periodic performance reports for trends and conditions, and alert appropriate management to correct problem areas.
  • Partner with third-party vendors to ensure all environmental compliance.
  • Leads investigation of major accidents/incidents/hazards/near misses, recommends future preventive measures, and ensures implementation through problem-solving techniques.
  • Responsible for OSHA logs, First Reports of Injury, and partners with HR on Workers’ Compensation claims at corporate location.
  • Reviews new products, equipment, and processes for potential hazards and recommends modifications before introduction.
  • Works with team members and supervisors to identify and correct potential safety and health hazards.
  • Develop safe standard work practices with line personnel and monitor conformance through safety and housekeeping inspections.
  • Provide feedback to support plant engineering to assist with implementing engineering controls to minimize safety and occupational health hazards.
  • Conduct ergonomics studies to ensure the proper tooling and layout of the process.
  • Serves as Emergency Response Coordinator, managing emergency procedures and organizing emergency teams during an event.
  • Partners with the Operations Team for utilization of the safety LMS system. Communicate trends, gaps, and planned annual training requirements.
  • Ensures thorough investigation and accountability that the Safety Accountability Policy is upheld after completed root cause analysis.

Required

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, or related degree or equivalent combination of experience and education.
  • Experience with and understanding of safety operations in a metal manufacturing organization.

Preferred:

  • Experience in a lean manufacturing environment.
  • Certified Safety Professional (CSP) desired.
  • Experience with musculoskeletal/ergonomics.
  • Experience with problem-solving skills.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

  • Strong situational analysis skills to identify problems and solutions.
  • Polished group and interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • PC skills: spreadsheet and word processing skills adequate to produce necessary work documents.
  • Ability to lead, motivate and influence.
  • Workers compensation management.
  • Ability to develop and implement safety programs.
  • Ability to create and maintain record keeping in compliance with all company and regulatory agencies.
  • Able to set high standards and get results.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

  • Physical demands are typical of an office position including extended periods of sitting, extensive use of a personal computer and telephone.
  • Position requires movement around the facilities.
  • Occasional handling of material and components.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Normal manufacturing and office environment. When working occasionally in some shop areas, personal protection equipment (PPE) will be recommended and/or required (safety shoes, safety glasses w/side shields, hearing protection, face shield, gloves, apron and boots). Must have the ability to support extended business hours to meet customer business needs.

DISCLAIMER

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

QUALITY

Quality encompasses all aspects of DeZURIK, Inc.’s business, and every team member shares the responsibility to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformity relating to product, process, and the quality system. All team members have an obligation to identify and record any such nonconformity, and, through designated channels, initiate and recommend solutions.

Salary And Benefits

DeZURIK offers a competitive base salary in the $84,058 to $105,072 range, based on experience and qualifications, along with annual bonus opportunities tied to performance.

Beyond pay, our market-leading benefits are designed to support your wellbeing. These include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as short- and long-term disability coverage. DeZURIK also provides a health savings account with company match, a retirement plan for employer contributions through Vanguard, and access to the Granite Assistance Fund for support when it’s needed most. We value time for rest and personal growth, offering generous paid time off, including volunteer time off and paid holidays.

DeZURIK, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

Posted 2026-01-01

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