Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

US Operations - Main Campus, 594 Elm Street, Milford, New Hampshire, United States of America

Posted Sunday, January 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Milford, New Hampshire (USA), Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc. is the premier supplier of complete-to-print, high-volume, complex thin-wall investment castings and fully-finished casting-based subassemblies and components to industry. The company leads the industry in volume production, reduced lead-times and just-in-time manufacturing. Hitchiner produces castings in hundreds of different alloys for a broad spectrum of global markets and customers that include the leaders in the automotive, aerospace, and other industries.

We offer an enriching environment where learning and growing become part of your career. Hitchiner is dedicated to fostering the professional growth and development of our employees. We offer upward mobility and internal promotions.

• Must be familiar with Federal, State and local environmental and safety regulations, have the ability to interpret them and then ensure necessary actions are taken to comply.
• Provides company-wide guidance and program support for confined space entry, lockout/tag out, electrical, ergonomic, industrial hygiene monitoring, personal protective equipment, hazard communication, and related health, safety and environmental programs.
• Assists in all related reporting, auditing and program maintenance tasks. Reviews processes, assists in regulation interpretation, analyzes trends, and refers issues to management, as appropriate, for effective and timely resolution.
• Conducts facility inspections/audits which effectively and efficiently detect existing or potential safety, health and environmental hazards and recommends corrective or preventative measures where indicated. Proactively analyzes data and trends and communicates findings and recommendations to other operations to ensure continuous improvement across the company. Prepares and analyzes audit reports utilizing established procedures.
• Provides incident investigation support to plant management as needed. Prepares clear and accurate documentation.
• Maintains the OSHA Log and calculates TRIR metrics for Hitchiner facilities.
• Performs job hazard assessments. Evaluates tasks and collaborates with internal personnel to determine required changes to process, protective equipment requirements, engineering controls etc.
• Tracks safety performance for each business unit including audit results and incident statistics and communicates performance to senior management. Provides comparison to similar industry incident rates highlights significant incident trends, monitors OSHA/EPA regulations to limit company exposure, etc.
• Manages and assists in the development, monitoring, updating, coordination and delivery of training programs designed to increase employee awareness and reduce environmental impact and/or personal injuries.
• Reviews and approves (or rejects) MSDSs and change management checklist submissions for the safety impact and potential compliance issues;
  Administrative responsibility for maintenance of MSDSOnline.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge and safety regulations (EPA, OSHA, select DOL, etc.).
• Acts as a liaison and technical resource supporting existing safety committees.
• Assist with facility inspections by outside agencies.
• Assists with writing and completion of routine environmental compliance and monitoring reports.

• Prepares regular, timely and informative content Safety section on eCast.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• BA/BS in safety/environmental related field of study.
• Minimum 3-4 years…