Chief Environmental Health & Safety Officer
industrial_energy_operations › Environmental Health & Safety · E3 — E3 — Vice President · Executive
The most senior executive accountable for an organization's environmental, health, and safety strategy, performance, and regulatory standing.
Median pay · United States · annual
$336,643 USD
▲ +107.8% vs E1 on this ladder
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What this role is
The most senior executive accountable for an organization's environmental, health, and safety strategy, performance, and regulatory standing. At the Vice President (E3) level, the role owns a division, market and competitive strategy, and drives division-wide. Leads a division's leadership team.
What this level does
- Leads a large division or regional business's EHS agenda through senior executives, shaping corporate EHS strategy where enterprise-level environmental and safety risk is concentrated.
- Owns enterprise-level risk decisions — major environmental liabilities, systemic regulatory exposure, and reputational risk from safety or environmental events — and their critical strategic impact on the corporation.
- Represents the organization externally on EHS matters, participating in strategy discussions with regulators, industry bodies and major customers, and positioning the company's environmental and safety posture in the market.
- Embeds EHS considerations into major strategic decisions (site expansion, acquisitions, product and process changes), ensuring environmental and safety consequences are weighed at the enterprise level.
- Sets the multi-year EHS strategic direction and capital priorities for the division/region, holding senior EHS leaders accountable for performance across their portfolios.
- Knowledge applied
- Shapes corporate EHS strategy for large divisions or regional businesses, applying enterprise-impact judgment to environmental and safety risk that is concentrated at the corporate level.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses enterprise-level risks with critical strategic impact — major environmental liabilities, reputational exposure and systemic compliance — through senior executives.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Represents the organization externally on EHS, participating in regulatory, industry and market-facing strategy, and influencing enterprise strategic decisions.
- Typical experience
- 15–20+ years with demonstrated enterprise-impact EHS leadership across large divisions or regions.
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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