EHS Manager at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. in Racine, Wisconsin

Job Description:

The SHE Manager leads site-level deployment of SC Johnson’s Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) management practices to ensure compliance with local legal requirements and SCJ global standards. The SHE manager is experienced in seeing the big picture to align SC Johnson’s overall safety, health and environmental strategies with site-level targets and objectives. This individual will ensure that plant teams know the right things to be working on (or not working on) based on this alignment. While this role requires, safety, health and environmental technical knowledge and experience, success is equally dependent on developing and supporting “champions” within the site to drive day-to-day ownership for SHE. This position is part of a matrix organization and involves frequent interaction with global and regional supply chain leaders to review progress on established objectives and review opportunities for continued success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises the site SHE team and provides coaching and mentoring to strengthen competencies associated with functional skills and SCJ leadership success drivers.


• Partners with the site operations leader to deploy leader standard work for managers and supervisors to support achievement of site-specific targets and objectives.


• Manages deployment of SHE compliance assurance processes to enable compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations and company standards.


• Leads activities to comply with regulatory and company standards associated with the management of high-hazard chemical processes (e.g., process safety management).


• Develops internal audit processes, including SHE-related GEMBA and behavior observations, that proactively identify potential SHE non-conformances.


• Verifies timely, effective closure of identified SHE-related corrective and preventive actions.


• Collaborates with the site’s engineering and maintenance teams to ensure that inspections, testing, preventive maintenance activities associated with SHE-critical equipment and applicable high-hazard chemical processes are defined and appropriately documented.


• Provides subject matter expertise to support periodic external regulatory inspections associated with safety, health, environmental and/or fire protection matters.


• Develops and manages processes to ensure that safety and environmental incidents are investigated and that corrective and preventive actions that address root causes are effectively deployed across the site.


• Leads the development and maintenance of training processes to ensure that required safety, health and environmental training for the site is defined, addresses required content and is tracked to completion.


• Serves as the site champion for the site’s Management of Change (MOC) reviews to evaluate and control potential health and safety hazards and environmental impacts associated with business activity changes.


• Verifies the accuracy of data in the company’s SHE database (e.g., Entropy) and analyzes the data to identify loss trends that can contribute to injuries and illnesses, adverse environmental impacts and SHE process non-conformances.


• Champions the deployment of employee-driven safety and environmental teams and facilitates technical support for team activities that promote a safe, healthy and environmentally responsible workplace.


• Manages the SHE department budget.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering or related discipline


• Min 7 years of progressively increasing SHE leadership responsibility in a global manufacturing organization


• Experience in high-hazard chemical process safety management (PSM) such as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration PSM standard or European Seveso Directive.


• Previous team management experience required.

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Experience in driving day-to-day ownership of SHE processes to non-SHE program “champions”.


• Advanced degree Occupational Safety, Environmental Science or related discipline


• Designation as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) or country equivalent


• Ability to interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships to create win/win outcomes


• Effective communication skills that permit the clear and concise transfer of information to stakeholders


• Project management experience to enable prioritization and management of multiple projects to completion


• Ability to influence decisions based on providing appropriate fact-based rationale

Job Requirements:

• Full-time core office hours with expectation to be available for occasional nights/weekends


• Up to 10% domestic travel may be required


• Work in an office environment will be approximately 50% of time


• Work in a manufacturing environment will be approximately 50% of time

SC Johnson & Son, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

If you are an individual with a disability and you need an accommodation or other assistance during the application process, please call our Human Resources department at 262-260-3343 or email your request to SCJHR@scj.com. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Download the EEO is the Law poster for more information.