Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager – Food Manufacturing

About Echo Lake Foods:

Echo Lake Foods is a leading manufacturer of ready-to-eat egg products and breakfast foods, including waffles, pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs, omelets, and egg patties, serving major retail, foodservice, and national restaurant customers across the United States. Founded in 1941 and headquartered in Burlington, Wisconsin, the company operates multiple production facilities throughout the Midwest and has built a strong reputation for quality, innovation, and customer partnerships.

In 2025, Echo Lake Foods was acquired by Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the United States, marking an exciting new chapter of growth. This partnership strengthens our resources, expands our capabilities, and supports continued investment in our people, facilities, and products—creating new opportunities for employees to grow their careers within a stable and expanding organization.

Summary

The Safety & Environmental Manager is responsible for supporting and implementing safety and environmental programs across two Echo Lake Foods facilities. This role ensures compliance with OSHA, EPA, and applicable state regulations, supports site leadership in maintaining safe and environmentally compliant operations, and drives continuous improvement in safety performance and environmental stewardship.

Essential Functions

· Support the implementation and maintenance of safety and environmental programs at two assigned facilities.

· Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local occupational health, safety, and environmental regulations (OSHA, EPA, and applicable state agencies).

· Conduct routine site audits, safety inspections, and environmental compliance reviews; identify hazards and assist in tracking corrective actions.

· Partner with plant leadership and designated site contacts to reinforce safety and environmental expectations and accountability.

· Assist in the investigation of accidents, near misses, and environmental incidents; support root cause analysis and follow-up actions.

· Track and report key safety and environmental metrics (e.g., TRIR, waste, water, and basic compliance indicators) and highlight trends.

· Support delivery of safety and environmental training to employees and supervisors.

· Assist during regulatory inspections and audits; help maintain accurate documentation and records.

· Promote a positive safety culture through employee engagement initiatives and participation in EHS Management system (Playbook) meetings.

· Support emergency response preparedness, including spill response readiness and basic drills.

· Assist with environmental compliance activities including waste handling, stormwater inspections, and chemical management.

· Help maintain required environmental records and routine reports (e.g., waste manifests, inspection logs, basic permit tracking).

· Support site-level sustainability efforts such as recycling, waste reduction, and resource conservation.

· Collaborate with operations and maintenance teams to address safety and environmental concerns in day-to-day activities.

Core Competencies

· Problem Solving

· Trainer & Mentor

· Leadership

· Communication Proficiency

· Managing for Results

Supervisory Responsibility

This position is an individual contributor.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described herein are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to work independently as well as with and around others. There are frequent verbal and face-to-face contact. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Sensory and Physical Demands

The sensory and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to engage in their sensory functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Although this job is primarily sedentary and requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time, employees may be regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Occasionally employees may be required to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, lift, carry, pull, push and/or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds.

Intellectual Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to read, write, and interpret a variety of instructions furnished in but limited to written, oral, visual, diagram, or schedule form. Employees will work under significant time constraints, apply memorization, analysis, apply perception/comprehension skills, spontaneous thought, judgment, and manage time in completing assignments. The employee is required to use decision-making skills, practically solve problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists, communicate effectively, articulate ideas, respond to inquiries, handle conflict situations, perform mathematical calculations reasonably necessary to satisfactorily perform job duties, and to make decisions based on department and organizational goals.

Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are dependent on operational needs and may vary, Monday through Sunday. The employee is required to be available as scheduled and may be required to be available for extended hours. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. Some travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience

· Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Engineering, or related field.

· 5+ years of progressive safety management experience, preferably in food manufacturing or related industry.

· Working knowledge of OSHA and EPA regulations.

· Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

· Ability to travel to regional facilities.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Additional duties may be described and assigned as appropriate by management; employees are expected to perform these as well regardless of job title or routine duties.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, military service, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) 3% Match
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person