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Chief Environmental Health & Safety Officer
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Chief Environmental Health & Safety Officer

industrial_energy_operationsEnvironmental Health & Safety · E4 — E4 — Senior Vice President · Executive

The most senior executive accountable for enterprise-wide environmental, health, and safety strategy, performance, and compliance.

Median pay · United States · annual

$372,160 USD

+129.7% vs E1 on this ladder

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$273,375$506,642

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pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

The most senior executive accountable for enterprise-wide environmental, health, and safety strategy, performance, and compliance. At the Senior Vice President (E4) level, the role owns multiple divisions, enterprise strategy and external stakeholders, and drives cross-division / enterprise. Leads division leaders.

What this level does

  • Oversees large EHS portfolios spanning multiple strategic areas with high autonomy and corporate-level impact, integrating environmental, health and safety governance into overall enterprise strategy.
  • Participates in enterprise strategic development, ensuring EHS risk, regulatory outlook and sustainability commitments are represented in corporate direction — reporting directly to the COO, CFO or CEO where safety and environmental concerns matter most.
  • Engages the board, CEO and industry leaders regularly on EHS risk posture, major environmental liabilities, and the organization's safety culture and reputation.
  • Governs EHS strategy across businesses and functions with broad organizational reach, allocating enterprise resources between worker protection, environmental compliance and operational efficiency.
  • Bears ultimate accountability for the enterprise's environmental and occupational-safety performance, defending safety investment decisions and the safety-first culture at the corporate and market level.
Knowledge applied
Governs EHS across the enterprise with high autonomy and corporate impact, integrating environmental, health, safety and sustainability into overall corporate strategy across multiple business areas.
Complexity & problem solving
Participates in enterprise strategic development, weighing EHS risk, regulatory outlook and cost against corporate priorities; problems span cross-business strategy with broad organizational reach — differing from E3 in portfolio breadth and total enterprise risk borne rather than in kind.
Collaboration & interaction
Engages the board, CEO/COO/CFO and industry leaders regularly on EHS risk, safety culture and the company's environmental reputation.
Typical experience
20+ years of extensive corporate strategy and EHS leadership experience across businesses and functions.

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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As of · 2026-07-31

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