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Lead safety, compliance, and environmental excellence across a multi‑site medical manufacturing organization where your expertise directly protects people, products, and patients. This role offers the opportunity to influence operations, partner with senior leaders, and build proactive EHS programs in a highly regulated FDA/ISO environment.

Summary

The EHS & Environmental Compliance Manager is responsible for leading, developing, and maintaining Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) programs to ensure safe, compliant, and environmentally responsible medical manufacturing operations across the entire ARCH Medical Solutions (“AMS”) manufacturing base. This role partners closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Human Resources and Executive Leadership to support regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement within a highly regulated FDA/ISO environment.

The EHS & Environmental Compliance Manager serves as the AMS organization-wide subject matter expert for OSHA, EPA, state environmental regulations, and applicable medical-device manufacturing standards, while fostering a strong culture of safety, accountability, and prevention.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Other duties may be assigned):

Environmental, Health & Safety Leadership

• Develop, implement, and maintain site EHS programs in compliance with OSHA, EPA, state/local regulations, and company policies.
• Act as segment lead for EHS compliance, inspections, audits, and regulatory interactions.
• Champion a proactive safety culture through employee engagement, training, and leadership presence at manufacturing sites, and by leading monthly safety best practice meetings. Lead regulatory compliance & risk management efforts throughout the AMS segment.
• Ensure compliance with hazard communication, chemical safety, waste management, air permits, wastewater, and hazardous materials handling requirements.
• Monitor regulatory changes and assess impact to site operations; implement proactive responses to new regulations and corrective actions, as needed.
• Lead internal and external audits; manage findings, corrective actions, and documentation closure.
• Incident Management & Prevention - Lead and govern incident investigations for injuries, near misses, spills, environmental releases, and safety events using structured root cause methodologies. Ensure timely development, implementation, and verification of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), accountability for closure, effectiveness validation, and communication of lessons learned to prevent recurrence across the AMS manufacturing network. Identification of systemic issues, trends, and cross-site risk mitigation opportunities.
• Maintain OSHA logs, incident reporting, workers’ compensation coordination, and safety metrics.
• Assess and communicate EHS-related operational, financial, and business continuity risks to leadership, including regulatory exposure, downtime risk, and incident severity potential.

Training & Employee Engagement

• Develop and deliver EHS training programs for production, maintenance, engineers, and leaders to implement at their sites and monitor compliance.
• Ensure training compliance, accurate records, and integration into onboarding and refresher programs are in place and being properly administered and recorded.

Medical Manufacturing & Quality Interface

• Partner with Quality to ensure EHS alignment with ISO 13485, FDA requirements, change control, and documentation practices.
• Support risk assessments related to processes, equipment, and materials used in medical product manufacturing.

Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability

• Manage environmental programs including waste reduction, recycling, pollution prevention, and sustainability initiatives.
• Track and report environmental performance metrics to leadership.
• Support business unit customer requests involving ESG, GHG quantification and reductions plans and other environmentally oriented requests originating from our customer base.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed above satisfactorily.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, Occupational Safety, Engineering, Biology, or related field.
• 5+ years of EHS experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably medical device, or regulated manufacturing.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and environmental permitting requirements.
• Experience leading audits, investigations, and corrective actions.

Preferred

• Experience in FDA-regulated or ISO 13485 manufacturing environments.
• Professional certifications such as CSP, ASP, CIH, or equivalent.
• Prior experience managing both safety and environmental compliance in a single-site, or ideally a multi-site responsibility role.

Key Competencies

• Hands-on, solution-oriented leadership style
• Strong regulatory and analytical skills
• Effective communication with business unit manufacturing personnel, as well as AMS senior leadership
• Ability to balance operational priorities with compliance requirements
• Continuous improvement mindset

Physical & Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, continuous mental and visual attention is needed. The ability to walk, stand, sit, talk, and hear is frequently required. The ability to operate a computer is required. Lifting to 20 pounds is occasionally required.

• Regular presence at leadership level meetings, regular visits to AMS sites and presence on the shop floor analyzing and making safety recommendations
• Ability to conduct inspections, audits, and investigations in a manufacturing environment
• PPE usage as required
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 50% of the time is required via plane and car

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to top management.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Salary Range: The anticipated starting pay range for this position is $110,000-$130,000 a year and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education.

ARCH Global Holdings is an Equal Opportunity Employer and wholeheartedly supports diversity in the workplace as a basic premise for business success. All employees of ARCH Global Holdings are employed on an at-will basis.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to modification to accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities required for this role.