Job Description This job description provides a summary of the skills, experience and background required for a position with Coskata, Inc. (“Coskata” or the “Company”). Title: Environmental, Health & Safety (“EH&S”) Manager. Summary: • Coskata is a next-generation ethanol company commercializing a compelling process technology for the conversion of biomass, waste and coal feedstock’s into ethanol. • We use gasification to crack the carbon bonds into syngas, bio- fermentation (micro-organisms) to convert the syngas into ethanol and membrane separation to efficiently separate the ethanol into fuel- grade product. • We have strong intellectual property in the micro-organisms, bioreactor design and membrane separation pieces of ethanol production and believe we can deliver ethanol at meaningfully reduced costs and at large scale. • Position will report to the Vice President of Engineering. • EH&S Manager will be responsible for establishment, monitoring and management of Coskata’s environmental, health and safety systems and programs. Direct Responsibilities: • Responsible for the continuous development, implementation, administration, and monitoring of all environmental, health and safety aspects of Coskata’s operations. • Lead and drive team of 1-2 direct reports and coordinate activities across a multi-functional company team of 25-30. • Oversee regular auditing of Coskata’s health and safety compliance efforts including workplace inspections, bio-hazard reviews, incident reporting and other standard EH&S review items. • Responsible for developing, implementing and managing robust and comprehensive industrial hygiene program which will include education, employee pre-screening, workplace specific monitoring and ongoing employee health assessments. • Develop and generate a quarterly corporate health and safety report card that highlights compliance, general initiatives and overall standing. • Oversee the development and management of an inventory and cost of goods plan in conjunction with the overall development program. • Direct the organization and development of the EH&S function in order to ensure its continuous growth and improvement including development and management of personnel. • Cross-train personnel and identify training requirements for high potential employees. • Ensure all occupational health and safety requirements are met including overseeing worker occupational exposure risks, ensuring proper safety training is completed, conducting regular hazard reviews, health and safety pre-start reviews and ensuring proper posting of EH&S notices. • Provide support and assistance to Directors, line Managers and other operational and technical staff. Location: • Coskata Headquarters (Warrenville, IL; 35 minutes outside of Chicago) Desired Skills and Experience: • Bachelors of Science degree with relevant experience or Enviromental Studies or other degree coupled with equivalent experience. • 5+ years of EH&S industrial experience. • Experience with environmental permitting, waste management, air approvals, sustainable development and EH&S legislation / regulations is a significant asset. • Demonstrated success working in multi-disciplinary technical teams is a plus. • Working knowledge and experience running and implementing compliance and policy programs and developing industrial hygiene processes is important. Contact: Todd Kimmel Founder & COO 4575 Weaver Parkway Warrenville, IL 60555 630.657.5800 x107 630.657.5801 (Fax) 650.644.0329 (eFax) 650.793.6768 (Cell) tkimmel**At_Symbol_Here**coskataenergy.com
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