Senior EHS Manager (Manufacturing)

Location: Richmond, United States; hybrid work model with the option to work from home up to two days per week. International travel is required. Relocation assistance is available.

Salary: $142,681–$214,021 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops consumer products and operates complex manufacturing environments focused on safety, operational excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.

What you will do

• Lead site EHS strategy, priorities, risk management, and organizational readiness while advising site and regional leadership.
• Develop and execute a multi-year EHS roadmap supporting safe growth, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Lead EHS workstreams for facility ramp-ups, expansions, capital projects, equipment installations, construction, commissioning, and transition to steady-state operations.
• Embed EHS requirements into equipment, process, and facility design, and manage project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder accountability.
• Build contractor and vendor EHS strategies, use leading and lagging indicators to identify emerging risks, and strengthen preventive actions.
• Lead, coach, and develop the EHS organization while partnering with employees, engineering, operations, maintenance, contractors, vendors, and leadership.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive Environmental, Health, and Safety experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineering, or similarly complex operational environments.
• Significant EHS leadership experience, including responsibility for leading and developing teams.
• Experience supporting or leading large-scale facility start-ups, expansions, capital projects, commissioning activities, or significant operational transformations.
• Demonstrated project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Strong understanding of EHS management principles in complex manufacturing or industrial operations.
• Experience applying Human Performance principles or similar learning-focused safety approaches in an operational environment.
• Ability to influence and lead senior leadership, functional leaders, project teams, and frontline employees.
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to build trust, create alignment, and influence outcomes without relying solely on positional authority.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills, together with a growth mindset and commitment to learning, continuous improvement, and capability development.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• EHS certification such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or a comparable credential.
• Formal project management education or certification, or demonstrated experience leading complex capital or operational projects.
• Experience implementing Human Performance or learning-focused safety methodologies.
• Experience with greenfield manufacturing operations, major facility expansions, or large-scale operational ramp-ups.
• Experience in highly automated, advanced manufacturing, consumer products, or other complex industrial environments.
• Experience working across regional or global organizations with geographically dispersed stakeholders.
• Experience developing proactive EHS analytics, risk indicators, or data-driven risk-prevention approaches.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model allowing work from home up to two days per week, depending on the role and team.
• Enhanced paid family care leave, life and disability insurance, wellbeing programs, and access to the Headspace app.
• hirify.global colleague discount from the first day and an eligible bonus scheme.
• Inclusive workplace focused on safety, belonging, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Drug screening is part of the drug-free workplace policy.