Environmental Health & Safety Manager

About the role

• Wildtype is looking for an Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager or Senior Manager to join our Team. The ideal candidate will have an immediate connection to our mission, as well as embody Wildtype’s values. This candidate will be extremely flexible and enjoy a “high-change” environment where priorities shift from day to day. The EHS Manager will provide leadership and support as the key environmental, health and safety resource servicing Wildtype’s headquarters, innovation center & manufacturing facilities. This position will lead initiatives to deliver EHS improvements and support across the site operations to achieve company goals.

Your work at Wildtype

• Develop, implement, and maintain/monitor effectiveness of all Wildtype EH&S programs 
• Develop & implement EHS vision and strategies and manage goals & metrics. 
• Demonstrate a strong safety mindset across the company, and be an influential and positive champion of safety in the workplace and manufacturing environments, particularly in a high change environment
• Serve as primary EHS interface with Corporate Risk Management, HR, Legal, and local Operations teams.
• Evaluate the environmental, safety and health compliance posture of Wildtype’s manufacturing operations on a periodic basis.  Identify program strengths and weaknesses, specify corrective action, and work directly with the facilities to ensure compliance.
• Conduct regular environmental & safety audits, identify and evaluate hazards & compliance in the workplace and recommend solutions to minimize or eliminate risk.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in all areas of safety and environmental compliance, including the development and coordination of Wildtype’s EHS Training Program to ensure employees have the knowledge to perform their job safely
• Own our incident, near-miss and safety ‘wins’ reporting and manage resulting action items to completion
• Manages compliance with all environmental laws, standards, and regulations, including existing and pending site permits, and serve as our subject matter expert regarding the interpretation of federal, state, and local EHS regulations.
• Reviews and implements compliance practices for new and upcoming regulations for applicability and effect on the facility
• Prepares and submits new permits & permit modifications as needed (SPCC, SWPPP, Air, Waste, Wastewater)
• Communicate and/or meet with regulatory officials, as required, to properly maintain discharge permits, negotiate permit conditions, etc. 
• Responsible for ensuring all waste generated from the facility is packaged, handled, transported, disposed of, and tracked in a manner that meets and/or exceeds Federal, State, and Local regulations
• Champion a safety culture with zero accident mentality.
• Co-manage with HR and managers the return to work program and associated workers compensation claims for work related injured temporary and full-time Wildtype employees.
• Develop, integrate & manage written safety programs, policies and procedures that comply with corporate legal policies & guidelines.
• Lead accident investigations and maintain all OSHA reporting by:
• Supporting all accident and near miss investigations to uncover root cause and track completion of corrective actions.
• Tracking, analyzing & reporting safety performance results and follow through with respective department managers and employees on all safety-related suggestions and feedback.

What you bring to the table

• 5+ years of EH&S prior experience in a biotechnology and/or a food production environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an EHS, engineering, environmental science, technical field, or business discipline.
• Accredited professional certification, such as CSP (Certified Safety Professional), Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager or country equivalent where available, preferred 
• Knowledge of EPA, OSHA, applicable state & federal regulations
• Experience identifying, evaluating and controlling EHS risks in the workplace
• Understanding of Lockout-Tagout, Confined Space, Excavations, Arc Flash, Working with live electric, Rigging, Line Breaking, JSA’s, and similar
• Highly developed influencing, collaboration and relationship building skills.
• Strong influence management, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. 
• Experience in leading project teams and working with Facilities and Manufacturing organizations, with proven record of successful project execution.
• Lead our efforts on waste management, permitting and environmental health and safety
• Be a sustainability champion, and work on continuously reducing our hazardous waste generation
• Ability to inspire and motivate self and others to drive forward progress in our safety and sustainability performance in all functional areas 
• Be able to call others to action, and create an environment where transparency and feedback are encouraged and become the norm company-wide
• Up to 40% travel required

How you’ll interface with other teams

• Work with company leadership to build consensus and internal momentum
• Champion a company-wide EHS mindset based on developing and sharing best practices
• Bring the knowledge on what is ‘need to have’ in terms of EHS compliance while helping teams to bring their own experience to the table and empowering employees to drive a culture of safety internally
• Lead incident and near-miss retrospective sessions and share the outputs across the company
• Take ownership and responsibility for actions, behaviors and contributions.

What we’ll teach you

• How cellular agriculture & our technology works
• What we have learned over the course of scaling up from lab based operations to larger production facilities, and the additional needs that come with moving from benchtop operations to commercial production

Impact Plan

• Within 1 month you will assume ownership of all of our existing systems & programs from our own internal EH&S & external safety consultants. You will have spent time with each department, shadowing our lab and production operations, and developing relationships with your Crewmates. 
• Within 3  months you will have performed a full gap-analysis on our EHS programs and identified areas where we can improve our entire EHS program across lab, pilot and manufacturing operations. You will be leading our EHS committee and working with the team to act on prioritized opportunities.
• Within 6 months you will be operationalizing a plan to address any gaps in our existing programs and systems, working cross-functionally with teams in labs, pilot, and scaled manufacturing. You will have optimized our training program to support our growing team and diversification of functions.
• Within 12 months you will have made meaningful progress in establishing Wildtype as a model in the cellular agriculture industry for EHS programs and performance. You will be leading the development of EHS programs for our first large scale commercial production facility, working closely with internal and external partners to ensure our safety and sustainability focused culture is instilled in everything we do. 

The hiring range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000, plus equity.