At VFS, A Fortis Fire & Safety Brand, we provide industry-leading fire protection services across the United States. Our ever-growing footprint can be seen in California, Florida, Texas, and Chicago and we are acquiring new brands all the time.

Our team provides a full spectrum of specialized and certified service professionals to support your company and protect your building with the peace of mind of properly installed and maintained fire and life safety systems.

Here at Fortis and throughout our family of brands, we value our employees and offer competitive benefits which include:

• 2 weeks of paid vacation
• 1 week of paid sick time
• 10 Company Paid Holidays
• Other paid time off (jury duty, bereavement)
• Competitive pay
• 401k with company match
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Company-paid Short-term Disability
• Supplemental Long-term Disability and Life Insurance Packages
• Legal Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Career Advancement Opportunities

The EHS Manager is responsible for developing and implementing strategies for effective environmental, health, safety and security programs for the company. The role includes strategic and tactical leadership of EHS management systems, EHS regulations, and industry best practices. Primary responsibilities include management and implementation of environmental, health, and safety requirements for Fortis to build a strong safety and health culture, ensure compliance, reduce costs, and maintain consistency. This position is responsible for training and developing leaders and team members in good safety practices and required EHS topics to improve EHS performance.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Champion and develop a "World-Class" injury-free safety culture with support of leadership. 
• Develop, implement, and direct safety training programs, policies, and procedures. Monitor compliance of training and record keeping. 
• Survey, compile, analyze, and report data relating to occupational and environmental health issues which are known or suspected of being real or potential detriments to health including chemical exposure, radiation, smoke, fumes, noise, temperatures, dusts, vapors, mists, gases, solvents, natural disasters (earthquake,, flooding, lightning), and ergonomics.
• Recommend and implement control measures for exposure to hazardous materials or conditions.
• Update existing EH&S programs, policies, and procedures.
• Manage all federal, state, and local environmental programs and permits (if needed) and ensure compliance. Acts as company representative with government agencies in environmental, safety, and health matters affecting the company.
• Maintain EH&S goals, metrics, record keeping, and communications.
• Guide incident review process and perform incident trend analysis for hazard prevention and control.
• Implement Safety Committee structure across the company (Corp, Regional, local). Provide leadership to committee(s) as appropriate. 
• Identify safety improvement projects and coordinate cross functional resources to complete projects and mitigate risks. 
• Implement a program and system to track and evaluate worker injuries. Partners with HR to actively evaluate and manage work-related injuries.
• Perform accident investigation reviews and ensure root causes and short and long-term corrective actions are identified. Ensure corrective actions are completed timely.
• Lead, initiate, and manage continuous improvement process in environmental, health and safety areas. 
• Manage EH&S vendors, expenses, & budget
• Supervises Safety Coordinators and coaches Safety Champions

The EHS Manager will have broad knowledge of safety, environmental, and team member health topics.

• Must possess a high degree of personal integrity, must be able to multi-task, safety conscious, and a good team player. 
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members and management throughout the organization
• Coaching, facilitating, and training skills
• Strong problem-solving techniques and project management skills
• Understanding of business issues, metrics and organizational linkages
• Ability to challenge the organization in a way that maintains trust and respect
• Self-confident, ability to accept and respond to feedback and challenges in a positive manner
• Demonstrated high energy, passion for excellence, bias for action, adaptability
• Self-starter, capable of working with minimal direct supervision
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering or other safety-related discipline
• At least five years of experience in an EHS leadership role
• Must have thorough knowledge and experience with federal, state and local EHS regulations, OSHA etc.
• Experience in the evaluation, development, and implementation of safety programs
• Demonstrated ability to recognize, evaluate, and recommend controls for workplace hazards
• Demonstrated ability to determine training needs; organize and/or conduct training
• Demonstrated ability to coach and develop team members.

Preferred Qualification

• Prior experience in the fire safety or construction industries
• American Red Cross certified in Preventing Disease Transmission, Blood borne Pathogens, adult CPR and First Aid Certified (responsible for maintaining certifications)
• One or more of the following certifications: ASP, CSP, CHST, OHST 
• Effective public speaker, facilitator, trainer, and problem solver. 
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional matrix organization. 
• Be capable of working in and promoting a team environment. 

Travel 30-40% Travel is required for this position

Compensation $100,000 - $120,000

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the Team member is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The Team member is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The Team member is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and climb stairs, or balance. The Team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Fortis Fire & Safety Inc. is an EEO Employer. We select people on the basis of skill, training, ability, attitude, and character without discrimination with regard to age, sex, color, race, creed, national origin, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, or a disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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