EHS MANAGER

Department: Environment, Health, Safety, ETP & ESG

Position: EHS Manager

Location: Baroda Plant

Reporting To: GM EHS

1. Job Purpose

To provide strategic leadership and oversight for Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP), Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), sustainability, and statutory compliance across Kumar Organic Products Ltd. The position will ensure a safe working environment, regulatory compliance, effective environmental management, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement
1. Key Responsibilities

A. EHS Management

- Implement, and monitor EHS policies, procedures, risk assessments, and safety management systems across units with GMEHS/Site Head approval.
- Ensure the safety of employees, contractors, equipment, products, and plant operations.
- Conduct monthly Safety Committee meetings and submit reports to HODs
- Coordinate internal, external, customer, and statutory EHS audits and ensure timely closure of observations, with the objective of zero critical and major findings.
- Investigate accidents, incidents, and near misses; implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure employee safety training, external training programs, emergency preparedness, and mock drills.
- Ensure preventive maintenance of safety equipment, emergency systems, and associated utilities.
- Drive EHS performance improvement through ERP, CRM, and other digital safety and compliance systems.
- Review EHS budgets, cash flow, expenditure, and resource requirements.
- Achieve a minimum of one Safety Award and one Environmental Award annually for each eligible unit.

B. ETP and Environmental Management

- Ensure efficient operation and maintenance of ETPs and compliance with applicable wastewater discharge standards and consent conditions.
- Monitor environmental performance, including wastewater, air emissions, and other applicable environmental parameters.
- Ensure proper handling and authorized disposal of sludge, hazardous waste, and other process residuals.
- Review ETP performance, material balance, chemical consumption, energy usage, cash flow, and operating costs.
- Ensure preventive maintenance of ETP equipment and utilities.
- Implement water conservation, waste minimization, energy efficiency, and resource optimization initiatives.

C. Statutory and Regulatory Compliance

- Ensure compliance with applicable Factory, Environmental, Pollution Control, Drug Control, and other relevant laws, rules, and statutory requirements.
- Coordinate with regulatory authorities, including Factory Inspectorate, Pollution Control Boards, Drug Control authorities where applicable, local Panchayat/municipal authorities, and other government bodies.
- Ensure timely renewal of statutory licenses, consents, authorizations, and approvals.
- Coordinate applications for Consent to Establish (CTE), Consent to Operate (CTO), and other applicable approvals before commencing relevant new projects, products, or production activities.
- Maintain statutory compliance registers, documentation, and reporting systems.
- Coordinate regulatory inspections, statutory liaison, legal notices, and court cases with the concerned Legal and Regulatory teams.

D. Audits, ESG and Sustainability

- Coordinate EHS, ETP, Finance-related compliance, sustainability, ESG, and customer social audits.
- Monitor month-to-month audit progress and ensure timely closure of corrective and preventive actions.




- Drive sustainability initiatives and maintain relevant environmental, safety, and ESG performance data.
- Submit periodic audit, compliance, and sustainability reports to senior management.

E. Project Management

- Integrate EHS and ETP requirements into new projects, expansions, modifications, and commissioning activities pertaining to Baroda Plant.
- Ensure required statutory approvals, environmental safeguards, and risk-control measures are incorporated into project planning and execution.
- Monitor project budgets, EHS expenditure, timelines, resources, and compliance requirements.
- Coordinate with Engineering, Projects, Production, Maintenance, Finance, and external consultants.
- Work in coordination with GMEHS, who will also be responsible for overall EHS projects.

F. Reporting and Management Review

- Submit monthly EHS, ETP, ESG, statutory compliance, audit, and project-performance reports
- Escalate significant safety incidents, environmental deviations, and statutory risks promptly.
- Review performance with unit heads and ensure accountability for corrective actions and continuous improvement.

1. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

- 100% timely completion of applicable statutory filings, renewals, and compliance obligations.
- No critical or major EHS audit observations, with effective corrective action closure.
- Minimum one Safety Award and one Environmental Award annually per eligible unit.
- Compliance with applicable ETP discharge standards and consent conditions.
- Completion of planned safety training, mock drills, and emergency preparedness activities.
- Timely closure of audit findings, incident investigations, and corrective actions.
- Achievement of approved ESG, sustainability, and resource-efficiency targets.
- Timely submission of monthly reports and effective monitoring of EHS/ETP budgets.
- Completion of assigned project deliverables within approved timelines and budgets.

1. Qualifications and Experience

- Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or a relevant discipline.
- Recognized Industrial Safety or EHS qualification, as applicable to statutory requirements.
- Relevant experience in EHS, ETP operations, statutory compliance, and environmental management, preferably in the chemical or manufacturing industry.
- Experience in regulatory liaison, audits, project safety, incident investigation, and sustainability management.
- Proficiency in ERP/CRM systems, EHS software, reporting, and compliance monitoring.
- Strong leadership, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

1. Authority and Accountability

The EHS Manager shall coordinate with all relevant functions and unit heads to implement EHS/ETP requirements, recommend immediate controls for unsafe conditions, escalate critical risks to senior management, monitor statutory compliance, and ensure timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions, within the company's approved delegation of authority.
1. ob Summary:





- Provide strategic leadership and oversight for all EHS and ETP activities Kumar Organic Products Ltd.,Baroda Plant
- Drive continuous improvement in the company's environmental performance, employee safety, and operational efficiency utilizing ERP / CRM / other safety software
- Obtaining minimum one Safety and minimum one Environmental award per year per unit.
- Responsible for ensuring statutory, legal, government compliances with reference to statutory controlling bodies and Acts like Factories Act, Pollution Control Board, Drug Control, local Panchayath and other govt bodies.

EHS:

- Develop and implement safety protocols and procedures for all operations.
- Drive continuous improvement in the company's environmental performance, employee safety, and operational efficiency utilizing ERP / CRM / other safety software
- To co-ordinate Safety committee meeting on monthly basis to send report to corporate office.
- To ensure internal audits and EHS audits by external agencies are held at specified intervals and the compliance report submitted
- Ensure that there are no critical and major observations
- Ensure that we pass and comply all external safety , workplace audits by Customers, Govt. Agencies etc
- Conduct risk assessments and implement risk mitigation strategies.
- To take all steps to ensure Safety of the Manpower along with the equipment and products.
- Ensure that regular preventive maintenance of equipments / utilities related to safety
- Investigate and analyse accidents and incidents.
- Review of Cash flow for EHS
- Provide safety training and awareness programs for employees. To ensure that plants EHS team organizes external safety training and mock drills to our employees

ETP:

- To ensure proper maintenance and clearance of Effluents from the Effluent Treatment Plant as per the guidelines of the Pollution Control Board without infringement of the rules of the Central and State Governments.
- Ensure compliance with wastewater discharge standards. Manage residuals and sludge disposal.
- Oversee environmental impact assessments and obtain necessary permits for new projects and comply all statuary requirements of existing units
- Implement process improvements to optimize ETP performance.
- Ensure that regular preventive maintenance of equipments / utilities related to ETP
- Review Cash flow for ETP with material balance
- Monitor and report on air, water, and soil quality.
- Implement energy conservation and resource efficiency measures.

Project Management: Lead the implementation of new projects as and when new projects comes

- EHS and ETP aspects for new projects
- Integrate EHS considerations into project planning and design.
- Manage project budgets / EHS budgets and resources for projects.
- Ensure timely and on-budget project completion.

Regulatory & Compliance:

- To coordinate with Regulatory / Statutory teams for Statutory compliances Coordinating for Renewal of pollution control licenses and other statutory Licenses and taking consent for establishment of any new products from Central and state pollution control board before starting the production and other statutory authorities.
- Stay updated on all relevant environmental regulations and safety standards.
- Conduct internal audits and compliance assessments.
- Getting conducted EHS / ETP / FINANCE audit with month-to-month progress
- Getting Conducted Sustainability audit

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