Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

Cox Enterprises

Environmental, Health & Safety Manager overseeing EHS initiatives and safety programs at Cox Automotive. Driving engagement and compliance while implementing sustainable safety and environmental practices.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $92,300 - $153,900 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The role of the Regional EHS Manager is to ensure the successful implementation and practice of our EHS processes and procedures to drive a culture of caring among team members, clients/customers and vendor partners
Work directly with site leadership and employees, office and field-based personnel to drive improved engagement in the assigned region
Lead the development and implementation of sustainable safety and environmental programs across the business
A major focus on the maintenance of safety management systems and the reduction in the frequency and severity of injuries to our people by partnering with functional leaders and staff to analyze problems and successes to optimize future operations
This role will work with partners across the region to align program support to the overall business objectives and culture we need to enable all team members to work safely and protect the communities where we operate
Drive the operational implementation of EHS programs through partnership to build a proactive culture of safety, compliance and performance
Collaborates across all CAI Safety Teams (One EHS Team Approach) focused on both leading and lagging indicators to ensure proper safety defenses are being evaluated; key member of the incident investigation and improvement process
Partner with Recon and Lean Daily Management teams to ensure safety measurements impact and reflect the Cox Automotive safety culture, while driving leading indicator safety programs that establish a restorative approach
Work to establish timelines and action closure process on all identified corrective actions that arising from inspections, reviews and recommendations
Ability to remove an audit atmosphere to a department support relationship
Support revised standardized environmental practices to ensure consistency with company standards and all provincial and federal regulations
Assist in the building of site safety and environmental policies and improvement plans that focus on continuous improvement
Works with auction site partners to help in the development and implementation of the training
Develop and implement of incident response plan, to include incident and near miss reporting process and to include review, analysis and communication of findings
Assist with the Learning Team approach to working directly with employees and understand how work is completed to better protect the workforce

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field
The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 8 years’ experience in a related field
Strong interpersonal skills that foster team building and “buy-in” of new initiatives and goals at all levels of the organization
Demonstrated experience gathering requirements and facilitating requirements gathering sessions is required
Ability to complete Risk Assessments and Safe Work Practices (Standard Work)
Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently
Experience in root cause and corrective action analysis
Ability to drive programs and improvements across a matrix organization
Experience with data analysis and visualization and familiarity with databases, data structure, and queries is preferred
Ability to travel extensively (65%)

Benefits

Comp & perks

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
retirement planning (401(k))

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Hard Skills & Tools

EHS processessafety management systemsrisk assessmentssafe work practicesdata analysisdata visualizationcorrective action analysisincident response planningenvironmental practicescontinuous improvement

Soft Skills

interpersonal skillsteam buildingorganizational skillsindependent workcollaborationcommunicationfacilitationproblem analysisengagementbuy-in