EHS Leader in Leicester

The EHS Manager is responsible for leading all environmental, health, safety, and regulatory compliance activities for Druck’s Leicester manufacturing facility and global locations.

This role serves as the site's subject matter expert and strategic leader for EHS, driving a proactive safety culture while ensuring compliance with international, national and local regulations.

This is a people leader role with a small team of direct reports.

The successful candidate will partner closely with plant leadership and employees to reduce risk, prevent injuries, strengthen environmental stewardship, and support operational excellence.

This highly visible role requires hands-on leadership, strong regulatory knowledge, effective employee engagement, and the ability to lead incident investigations, regulatory interactions, audits, training programs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities (includes, but is not limited to)

• Develop and execute site EHS strategy aligned with business objectives and Crane Company standards.
• Lead initiatives that foster a proactive safety culture through employee engagement, coaching, observations, training, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to site leadership on EHS risks, compliance obligations, and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with applicable waste management regulations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact during regulatory inspections, audits, investigations, and agency inquiries.
• Maintain all required permits, reporting obligations, environmental records, and compliance documentation.
• Monitor regulatory developments and implement changes necessary to maintain compliance.
• Lead investigations involving injuries, environmental incidents, near misses, property damage, and regulatory findings.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Perform risk assessments, ergonomic evaluations, job hazard analyses, and exposure assessments to identify and mitigate workplace hazards.
• Develop and deliver EHS training programs for all levels of the organization.
• Maintain emergency response, evacuation, spill response, and business continuity programs.
• Coordinate emergency drills and serve as a lead resource during crisis events.
• Establish and monitor EHS metrics including TRIR, DART, near miss reporting, safety observations, corrective action closure rates, and environmental performance indicators.
• Lead environmental and safety audits and support third party certification audits, including ISO 14001 and 45001
• Prepare monthly EHS reports and recommend improvement initiatives and capital investments to reduce risk and improve performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering, Occupational Safety, Public Health, or a related field and/or NEBOSH Diploma.
• Minimum 5 years of progressive EHS experience, including at least 3 years in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing environmental compliance programs, occupational safety programs, regulatory audits, and permitting requirements.
• Experience leading incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action management.
• Strong knowledge of hazardous waste regulations, environmental permits, and emergency preparedness requirements.
• Proven ability to build a strong safety culture and improve safety performance through employee engagement, behavioural safety initiatives, coaching, and continuous improvement programs.
• Experience supporting ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems.
• Strong project management, communication, and presentation skills.
• Professional certifications such as IOSH, NEBOSH, CIEH, HSEPB or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Experience in the Aerospace industry, supporting AS9100 preferred.
• Experience interacting directly with regulatory agencies and managing consultants preferred.