Vice President of Environmental Health & Safety
industrial_energy_operations › Environmental Health & Safety · E1 — E1 — Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive leader who sets and directs the organization's overall environmental, health, and safety strategy and compliance posture.
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$162,037 USD
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What this role is
Executive leader who sets and directs the organization's overall environmental, health, and safety strategy and compliance posture. At the Director (Executive) (E1) level, the role owns a significant function with strategic authority, strategic and cross-functional, and drives function-wide enterprise impact. Executive leadership of a function.
What this level does
- Leads the complete EHS function through EHS directors and site managers, crafting the vision for environmental health and safety across the organization and setting policy that governs hazard identification, chemical handling and regulatory compliance.
- Acts as key advisor to senior leadership, translating intricate environmental and occupational-safety regulations into actionable strategies and programs deployed across multiple sites.
- Owns EHS performance reporting to senior executives, consolidating safety and environmental program results across regional or divisional teams and driving corrective action where standards are not met.
- Balances protecting workers against operational efficiency — justifying safety capital investments, managing the EHS budget, and building a safety-first culture that changes behavior across the function.
- Sets the standard for incident investigation, emergency-response planning and permit management, ensuring compliance frameworks scale consistently across all facilities under the function.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies deep functional EHS strategy grounded in detailed knowledge of environmental protection law, occupational-safety regulation and the company's operations; leads the complete function through directors rather than executing inspections or sampling.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Sets functional strategy and resolves complex, cross-site compliance and hazard-prevention issues with serious functional and business consequences, designing systems that prevent hazards across facilities.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Interfaces with other executives and major customers, and advises senior leadership on safety compliance and emergency response, influencing decisions beyond direct authority.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of EHS and management experience, including running multi-site safety and environmental programs and leading EHS teams.
Skills at this level
- EHS Regulatory Strategy
- — Translates intricate environmental protection laws and occupational-safety regulations into enterprise policies and actionable programs, keeping compliance frameworks current across all facilities and permit jurisdictions.
- Environmental & Safety Risk Governance
- — Identifies, quantifies and reports enterprise-level environmental liabilities and occupational-safety risks to senior leadership and the board, deciding where to invest to prevent hazards across sites and business units.
- Multi-Site EHS Program Oversight
- — Directs safety and environmental programs across multiple facilities through regional or divisional teams, setting policy, managing permit renewals across locations and monitoring consolidated program performance.
- EHS Management System Design
- — Designs enterprise-wide systems and standards that prevent hazards across facilities — spanning inspections, recordkeeping, incident investigation and hazard controls — rather than executing individual site tasks.
- Safety Culture Leadership
- — Builds and sustains a safety-first culture across the organization, influencing behavior and driving meaningful change while balancing worker protection against operational efficiency.
- EHS Budget & Investment Justification
- — Manages EHS budgets and justifies safety and environmental capital investments to executive leadership, trading off protection, compliance and cost at portfolio scale.
- Emergency Response Planning
- — Establishes and coordinates emergency-response and business-continuity plans for safety and environmental incidents, ensuring rapid return to operations across affected sites.
- Executive & Board Advisory on EHS
- — Acts as key advisor to the COO, CFO, CEO and board on environmental and safety matters, communicating risk posture and reputation exposure at the enterprise level.
- External EHS Representation
- — Represents the organization to regulators, insurers, industry bodies and major customers on environmental and safety matters, participating in external strategy and positioning the company's EHS posture in the market.
- EHS Performance Analytics
- — Sets and interprets multi-site safety and environmental metrics — incident rates, sampling and monitoring results, compliance status — using data and statistics to prioritize corrective action and report performance to leadership.
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