How to hire an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader

How to hire an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader, step by step

Here's a step-by-step environmental, health, and safety ehs leader hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new environmental, health, and safety ehs leader
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect environmental, health, and safety ehs leader also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   This list shows salaries for various types of environmentals, health and safety ehs leader.

   Type of Environmental, Health, And Safety EHS Leader	Description	Hourly rate
   Environmental, Health, And Safety EHS Leader	Health and safety engineers develop procedures and design systems to prevent people from getting sick or injured and to keep property from being damaged. They combine knowledge of systems engineering and of health and safety to make sure that chemicals, machinery, software, furniture, and other consumer products will not cause harm to people or damage to buildings.	$25-48
   Leader	Leaders pave the way for a company to achieve certain goals. They are in charge of bringing the organization to greater heights... Show more	$23-73
   EHS Manager	An environmental health safety (EHS) manager is in charge of developing and implementing safety programs for a company's workforce and work environment. Their responsibilities revolve around conducting regular inspections to ensure compliance with safety and environmental regulations, devising preventive measures, spearheading training and seminars, and investigating workplace accidents and identify causes to ensure that it would not happen again... Show more	$33-61

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Environmental Health
   • OSHA
   • Continuous Improvement
   • Emergency Response
   • Management System
   • DOT
   • EPA
   • Safety Culture
   • Safety Standards
   • Incident Investigations
   • Regulatory Compliance
   • ISO
   • Contractor Safety
   • Hazardous Waste

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   Responsibilities:

   • Implement Honeywell management system as well as achieved OSHA VPP through partnering with management and employees.
   • Manage hazardous and special waste programs and profiles including audits/inspections, vendor compliance, documentation and recordkeeping.
   • Attend the environment inspections by PROFEPA, similar at EPA.
   • Facilitate updates on policy and procedure changes via postings on the intranet.
   • Comply with all OSHA and other relate regulatory requirements for documentation and reporting.
   • Facilitate ISO compliance by conducting various hazard assessments and updating hazard registries for wellsite operations and facility processes.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job description is a great way to entice the best and brightest candidates. An environmental, health, and safety ehs leader salary can vary based on several factors:

   • Location. For example, environmentals, health and safety ehs leader' average salary in west virginia is 45% less than in california.
   • Seniority. Entry-level environmentals, health and safety ehs leader earn 47% less than senior-level environmentals, health and safety ehs leader.
   • Certifications. An environmental, health, and safety ehs leader with a few certifications under their belt will likely demand a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for a prestigious company or an exciting start-up can make a huge difference in an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader's salary.

   Average environmental, health, and safety ehs leader salary

   $74,616yearly

   $35.87 hourly rate

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   Entry-level environmental, health, and safety ehs leader salary

   $54,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 23, 2026

4. Writing an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job description

   A job description for an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's an environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job description:

   Environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job description example

   Summary/Objective:
   
   An Environmental Health and Safety Manager inspects and evaluates the environment, equipment and processes in working areas to ensure compliance with government safety regulations and industry standards. The EHS Manager Develops health and safety procedures for all areas of the company and prepares and schedules training to cover emergency procedures, workplace safety, and other relevant topics. The EHS Manager is responsible for monitoring compliance with safety procedures and promoting good working practices for employees.
   
   1. Comply with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) as required.
   
   2. Comply with Sunny Delight Beverage's policies and procedures.
   
   3. Conduct and assist with the development of HSE training, such as HSE Management System, Hazard ID and Risk Assessment, Permit to Work, Lockout/Tagout, Incident Investigation and Analysis, Auditor Training, New Manager, Ergonomics, Environmental Compliance, HSE Systems, etc. to support compliance and HSE operational needs.
   
   4. Oversee and lead required safety inspections, PM's, etc. within our comprehensive HSE database (GSTEMS).
   
   5. Manage chemical handling and associated state and federal reporting requirements.
   
   6. Participate in the HSE planning of Turnarounds & Extended Outages and provide on-site HSE support during outages.
   
   7. Partnership with maintenance, operations and support departments in the execution and analysis of project efforts.
   
   8. Provide ongoing facilitation and coaching to local management/leader teams to ensure quality incident investigation and root cause analysis.
   
   9. Provide active leadership and support to implement HSE initiatives and projects.
   
   10. Assist sites and businesses with the review and development of HSE procedures and standards.
   
   11. Train and assist sites with the handling of regulatory inspections.
   
   12. Manage expenses within budget.
   
   13. Work effectively with all levels of the organization to promote strong core safety values.
   
   14. Perform any other duties as assigned.
   
   Qualifications:
   
   o Associates Degree/HSE Certification with 7 years of equivalent work experience (prefer HSE, Engineering or Chemical discipline)
   
   o 5 years' experience working in an HSE role.
   
   o 3 years relevant training experience.
   
   o 3 years relevant auditing experience
   
   o Excellent communication & conflict resolution skills.
   
   o Demonstrated Leadership Skills.
   
   o Strong organizational skills.
   
   o Ability to work a flexible schedule including early mornings, evenings and/or weekends.
   
   o Proficient in Microsoft Office.
   
   Sunny Delight Beverages Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, minorities, veterans & the disabled are encouraged to apply. Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen or national, permanent resident, refugee or asylee, or temporary resident under the legalization program of the 1986 Immigration Act. Sunny Delight Beverages Company does not offer practical training positions nor sponsor foreign citizens to obtain work visa or permanent residency (except for certain highly specialized roles such as some R&D positions requiring Doctorate degrees.)
   
   ©2022 Sunny Delight Beverages Co.

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5. Post your job

   To find environmentals, health and safety ehs leader for your business, try out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important talent pools for any company is its current employees.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and your current work to ask if they know any environmentals, health and safety ehs leader they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit entry-level environmentals, health and safety ehs leader with the right educational background.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have more than 3.5 billion users, and they're a great place for company branding and reaching potential job candidates.

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   • Post your environmental, health, and safety ehs leader job on Zippia to find and recruit environmental, health, and safety ehs leader candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   To successfully recruit environmentals, health and safety ehs leader, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new environmental, health, and safety ehs leader

   Once you've selected the best environmental, health, and safety ehs leader candidate for the job, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, this letter should include details about the benefits and perks you offer the candidate. Ensuring that your offer is competitive is essential, as qualified candidates may be considering other job opportunities. The candidate may wish to negotiate the terms of the offer, and you should be open to discussion. After you reach an agreement, the final step is formalizing the agreement with a contract.

   It's equally important to follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   Once that's done, you can draft an onboarding schedule for the new environmental, health, and safety ehs leader. Human Resources should complete Employee Action Forms and ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc. They should also ensure that new employee files are created for internal recordkeeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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