EHS Associate Manager

Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Associate Manager

Join Our Team at PepsiCo Beverages North America Make an Impact at Our Twinsburg, OH Manufacturing Facility!

At PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA), we believe in fostering a workplace where safety, inclusivity, and continuous improvement are at the core of everything we do. We seek a dedicated Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Associate Manager who is passionate about fostering a safety culture, ensuring regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, DOT), and promoting accident prevention and effective injury management at our manufacturing and warehousing location.

Responsibilities

As an EHS Associate Manager, you'll lead initiatives that integrate safety and environmental programs into our day-to-day operations. Your expertise will guide us in achieving sustained improvements in safety performance, compliance, and environmental stewardship. You'll be instrumental in supporting the location's manufacturing teams, identifying solutions for workplace safety, and leading a proactive approach to EHS management. In this role, you will:

• Implement, execute, ensure compliance with the Pepsi - North American Beverages EHS policies and procedures, and all federal, state, and local OSHA/EPA/DOT regulations (i.e. Lockout, Haz Com, Machine Safety, SARA, RCRA, etc.)
• Manage local EHS budget
• Lead the development and implementation of the EHS Annual Operating Plans and EHS Action Plans for the location
• Achieve annual targets rates for Lost Time, Recordable, Severity, and Environmental
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal and state occupational safety and environmental regulations
• Develop, implement, execute, and manage strategies to prevent workplace injuries, environmental incidents
• Demonstrate solid employee relations experience, interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
• Demonstrate professional maturity and ability to act as a change leader by influencing all levels of the organization to drive continuous improvement in safety performance
• Conduct EHS activities such as training/auditing/assessing to ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory agency requirements, Zero Zone Management System standards, Emergency Response and internal PepsiCo EHS procedures
• Perform risk assessments and assist in the implementation of effective physical and/or behavioral control measures. Recognize and verify the effectiveness of in-place control measures
• Identify unsafe equipment operation and conditions while demonstrating knowledge of appropriate corrective action for unsafe conditions or equipment use
• Exercise a leadership, coordination, and communication role with the location leadership to drive continuous EHS improvement across the location
• Complete root cause analyses and develop corrective action plans to address root basic causes and management system weak-spots through the use of industry-recognized cause analysis techniques

Compensation and Benefits

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $89,000 - $149,000.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 10% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of EHS work experience or High school diploma with greater than 15+ years of EHS work experience.
• EHS management experience in a related industry, including consumer packaged goods, distribution/transportation, manufacturing, or grocery industry.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with 7-9 years of EHS work experience.
• Manufacturing experience preferred.
• Knowledge and experience with EHS Management systems and their deployment.
• EHS auditing work experience.
• Solid working knowledge of EHS regulatory compliance.
• 3 to 5 years of increasingly responsible work experience in the safety or environmental field.
• Strong project management skills including financial responsibility, budgeting, scheduling, vendor management, execution and start-up/commissioning, managing multiple concurrent projects/programs.

Skills & Competencies:

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills including public speaking skills and presence in meetings and training environments.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, use PC and related software (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), handle multiple priorities, and meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to make and deliver training presentations, work collaboratively with colleagues to create a results-driven.
• Team-oriented environment, maintains confidentiality, and makes independent decisions.
• Functional EHS knowledge in regulatory requirements, EHS technical aspects (safety, industrial hygiene, environmental regulatory management, risk management, behavior-based safety, training, regulatory agency enforcement.
• Displays strong problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrates professional maturity and ability to act as a change leader.
• Understands and can articulate environmental regulations.
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.