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Saronic Technologies is seeking a Senior EHS Manager to build, scale, and implement Environmental, Health & Safety programs across its shipyards and maritime operations. This is a hands-on people leadership role in a high-growth startup environment, balancing day-to-day execution with program development, team leadership, and change management.
Key Responsibilities:
People Leadership & Team Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a growing EHS team in a fast-paced environment. Hire, onboard, and train EHS team members as the company scales. Set clear priorities, performance expectations, and development plans for direct reports. Foster accountability, adaptability, and ownership. Drive a proactive, HOP-based EHS culture. Support organizational change as processes, teams, and facilities evolve. Provide strategic people management including hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and succession planning.
Program Development & Scaling: Lead EHS team initiatives including regulatory reports, inspections, internal audits, emergency drills, and management system improvements. Build and implement EHS programs, policies, and procedures suitable for a startup and scalable to future operations. Establish foundational EHS management systems for shipyard and vessel testing environments. Adapt EHS programs to support new yards, test sites, vessels, and operational profiles. Balance operational speed with risk management and regulatory requirements. Ensure environmental programs scale with increased testing and yard activity. Drive proactive safety culture in high-risk maritime environments.
Shipyard and Vessel Operations EHS: Oversee EHS programs supporting shipyard activities such as fabrication, welding, blasting, coating, electrical work, rigging, and heavy equipment operations. Ensure safe practices for dry dock, pier-side, and yard-based work. Manage high-risk activities including hot work, confined spaces, working at heights, lifting operations, and contractor safety. Ensure environmental compliance programs for hazardous waste, stormwater, air emissions, chemical management, and spill prevention. Partner with operations and engineering to embed safety-by-design into equipment, facilities, and vessel design. Ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable marine safety standards for vessels under 60 ft (USCG, ISM as applicable).
Vessel Testing & On-Water Operations: Develop and enforce EHS procedures for vessel commissioning, dock trials, sea trials, and operational testing. Ensure safe launch, recovery, mooring, and towing operations. Support safe execution of test plans involving propulsion, electrical systems, autonomy, and mission equipment. Coordinate emergency response readiness for on-water testing activities.
Compliance, Risk & Incident Management: Ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, USCG, ISM, and state/local regulations. Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action implementation. Prepare for and support regulatory inspections and audits. Identify emerging risks associated with growth and operational change. Stay current on emerging EHS regulations, trends, and best practices. Develop individual and team OKRs and track progress.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in occupational health and safety, environmental science, engineering, public health, or related field; professional certification (ASP, CSP, CIH, CHMM) preferred
- 7+ years of experience in EHS, preferably in boat building, aerospace, or general manufacturing/industrial environments
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing team members to achieve individual and organizational goals
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years working on or with industrial hygiene, exposure assessments, indoor air quality, ventilation
- Thorough understanding of federal, state, and local EHS regulations including OSHA, EPA/TCEQ, DOT, USCG requirements and marine safety practices for small vessels
- Experience building, scaling, or formalizing EHS programs in startup, scale-up, or rapidly growing manufacturing organizations
- Demonstrated success leading and developing EHS teams, including hiring, onboarding, and coaching in evolving environments
- Hands-on experience supporting complex manufacturing operations (welding, composites, machining, electrical systems, testing, integration)
- Experience supporting marine/maritime operations including vessel launch/recovery, sea trials, dockside work, or field operations (under 60 ft)
- Experience integrating EHS into engineering and operational decision-making, including safety-by-design and design-for-manufacturability
- Strong background in incident investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action management in fast-paced environments
- Experience managing environmental compliance programs (hazardous waste, stormwater, chemical management, spill prevention/SPCC)
- Familiarity with regulatory inspections, audits, and permitting at federal, state, and local levels
- Ability to establish and track leading and lagging EHS metrics for data-driven decision-making
- Experience driving safety culture initiatives during organizational change
- Strong communication skills with ability to influence frontline employees through executive leadership
- Comfortable operating with limited structure, balancing urgency, risk, and business objectives
