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Senior EHS Specialist

• Support multi-site EHS plans aligned with corporate goals and site-specific priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to site leadership teams on regulatory expectations, safety culture, and employee engagement.
• Maintain visible field presence and provide practical guidance to site-level leaders and employees.
• Identify EHS capability gaps among site-level representatives and support development plans to strengthen local ownership.
• Promote consistent adoption of corporate EHS expectations across assigned facilities.

• Lead or support incident, near-miss, and hazard investigations to ensure timely reporting, effective root cause analysis, and appropriate corrective actions.
• Evaluate corrective actions for sustainability and alignment with the hierarchy of controls.
• Analyze incident trends and recurring findings to identify prevention opportunities.
• Partner with site leaders to communicate lessons learned across assigned facilities.

• Support compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA, NFPA, and other federal, state, and local EHS requirements.
• Conduct routine on-site inspections and assessments of workplace conditions, equipment, work practices, and EHS program implementation.
• Monitor site compliance with regulatory and company requirements and develop practical action plans to close identified gaps.
• Support environmental compliance activities, including waste management, waste stream evaluation, hazardous materials, stormwater, air, and water requirements, and required inspections, reports, records, or permits.
• Develop, maintain, and support emergency response plans, procedures, drills, and related site preparedness activities.

• Coordinate required EHS training, including new hire orientation, annual compliance training, and site-specific safety topics.
• Evaluate training needs based on incident trends, compliance findings, risk assessments, operational changes, and employee feedback.
• Coach site leaders and EHS representatives on safety communication, hazard recognition, employee engagement, and practical risk control.
• Strengthen site-level EHS capabilities through ongoing education, coaching, and practical support.

• Track, evaluate, and communicate leading and lagging EHS indicators, including injuries, near misses, hazard observations, inspections, audit findings, corrective actions, and training completion.
• Prepare routine reports and communicate trends, priorities, and improvement opportunities to site and corporate leadership.
• Partner with site managers to develop measurable action plans and monitor progress through completion.
• Maintain accurate EHS documentation, records, reports, and system entries in accordance with company and regulatory expectations.

• Conduct periodic EHS audits and assessments to evaluate compliance, control implementation, and program effectiveness.
• Support the rollout and sustainment of corporate EHS programs, tools, standards, and improvement initiatives.
• Follow up on audit findings and program gaps to ensure timely closure and sustainable improvement.
• Manage ISO 14001 requirements.

• Partner with HR, Operations, Legal, Engineering, Maintenance, and external agencies to support EHS initiatives and regulatory compliance.
• Represent Hanes Companies and Leggett & Platt professionally during regulatory inspections, agency interactions, customer inquiries, and industry forums.
• Support customer sustainability inquiries related to finished goods by coordinating EHS and product-related information as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Health and Safety, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive EHS experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of OSHA requirements, NFPA standards, NEC requirements, EPA expectations, and applicable environmental regulations.
• Demonstrated ability to identify known and potential workplace hazards and drive practical risk reduction.
• Experience leading or supporting incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective action development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare reports, communicate expectations, and influence others without direct authority.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, coaching, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel, as needed.

• Strong field presence and ability to build trust with site leadership and employees.
• Practical understanding of manufacturing operations and EHS controls.
• Ability to ask effective questions, influence action, and reinforce accountability.
• Ability to balance hands-on site support with broader multi-site priorities.

• Experience managing or supporting EHS across multiple sites.
• Experience with ergonomics, machine safeguarding, industrial hygiene, lockout/tagout, powered industrial trucks, hazardous energy control, and other manufacturing-related EHS programs.
• Experience using cloud-based EHS/EMS software platforms such as Enablon, Benchmark Gensuite, or similar system.
• Effective critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to respond calmly and professionally to emergencies and changing priorities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Teams, Copilot, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Bilingual communication skills are preferred.

Hanes Companies is a people-first organization dedicated to providing a complete benefits package for our employees and their families. Benefits include health/dental/vision insurance, retirement savings with company match, discount stock plan, paid time off, paid holidays, employee assistance program, gym reimbursement, education reimbursement, and many more!

Equal Employment Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer