EHS Supervisor (Manufacturing)

Location: Fremont, Ohio, United States; onsite at the Fremont Factory with flexibility for extended hours, shift variation, and weekend coverage as needed.

New hire base salary: $77,800–$97,300 per year, plus eligibility for a performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global operates a transformation-focused food manufacturing site in Fremont, Ohio.

What you will do

• Lead day-to-day environmental health and safety execution across the plant in accordance with OSHA, EPA, and hirify.global standards.
• Conduct audits, inspections, floor observations, and corrective-action follow-up to reduce risk and maintain readiness for internal and external reviews.
• Oversee chemical handling, storage, labeling, process hazards, sanitation operations, wastewater, waste handling, spill prevention, and environmental reporting.
• Lead investigations into injuries, near misses, environmental events, and significant safety concerns; identify root causes and sustain countermeasures.
• Deliver safety and environmental training, coach frontline employees and leaders, and strengthen hazard recognition, escalation, accountability, and standard work.
• Partner with plant leadership, maintenance, engineering, operations, quality, and frontline teams on aging infrastructure, equipment changes, reliability improvements, and site transformation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred, or 3+ years of related experience.
• Prior Environmental Health and Safety experience in food manufacturing, chemical process manufacturing, or another complex industrial environment.
• Experience supporting safety, environmental compliance, chemical management, incident investigation, and regulatory execution in a plant setting.
• Working knowledge of OSHA requirements, environmental compliance expectations, hazard communication, LOTO, and corrective-action systems.
• Strong communication, follow-up, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence plant functions, leadership levels, and frontline teams.
• Ability to balance immediate issue response with longer-term systems thinking and culture building.
• Ability to support a manufacturing operation with flexibility for extended hours, shift variation, and weekend coverage as needed.

Nice to have

• Experience working in a turnaround, transformation, or older facility environment.
• Experience in food manufacturing environments.
• Experience with wastewater pre-treatment, chemical sanitation controls, and environmental reporting.
• Experience with TPM, Lean, KHMS, or other disciplined operating systems.
• ASP, CSP, or another relevant Environmental Health and Safety certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Visible leadership role focused on building a prevention-oriented safety excellence culture and stronger operational discipline.
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, screening, and assessment coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
• Paid time off, company holidays, leave of absence, flexible work arrangements, recognition, and training opportunities.
• Employee assistance, wellbeing, family support, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, disability, and 401(k) programs.
• Physical, social, emotional, and financial wellbeing resources, events, and learning opportunities.