Senior Manager, Environmental Health & Safety
industrial_energy_operations › Environmental Health & Safety · M4 — M4 — Director · Management
Senior manager overseeing environmental health and safety programs across multiple sites or a large facility, leading managers and specialists to ensure regulatory compliance and risk reduction.
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$160,344 USD
▲ +95.9% vs M1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Senior manager overseeing environmental health and safety programs across multiple sites or a large facility, leading managers and specialists to ensure regulatory compliance and risk reduction. At the Director (M4) level, the role owns a function or department, strategic priorities and cross-functional alignment, and drives function-level results. Leads managers; sets direction for the function.
What this level does
- Manages EHS across multiple facilities or sections, shifting from hands-on implementation to strategic oversight with travel to sites and coordination of team leads
- Sets functional EHS strategy aligned to business objectives, recognizing that program failures could jeopardize operations, permits or licenses
- Coordinates training programs, permit renewals and complex EHS projects across locations, managing teams of EHS professionals
- Influences senior operational leaders on safety compliance and emergency response, completing critical assignments with little supervision
- Knowledge applied
- Applies management-system standards (ISO 45001/14001) and strategic policy knowledge across multiple sites/sections.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Sets strategic policies aligned to business objectives where failures could jeopardize permits and operations.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Engages senior leaders on functional EHS strategy; works with little supervision.
- Typical experience
- 8–10+ yrs; complex multi-team/multi-site EHS leadership (master's plus 5–10 yrs typical).
Skills at this level
- Regulatory and scientific knowledge
- — Reads analytical data, interprets natural-science findings and applies environmental-protection and occupational-safety laws, in some cases writing policy from them.
- Management-system standards knowledge
- — Applies ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety and ISO 14001 for environmental management alongside OSHA requirements and industry-specific environmental regulations.
- Influence and upward stakeholder management
- — Influences senior management on safety compliance and emergency response and completes work assignments with little supervision.
- Inspection and hazard control
- — Inspects and evaluates workplace environments, equipment and practices to identify exposures and enforce compliance with safety standards and government regulations.
- Field sampling and monitoring
- — Collects samples of dust and gases and performs field sampling and monitoring to quantify workplace exposures.
- Safety training program design
- — Creates safety-awareness training programs and modules and educates employees about health and safety regulations and precautions.
- Incident investigation and recordkeeping
- — Investigates safety incidents and maintains inspection, exposure and compliance records to support regulatory reporting and corrective action.
- Program management (waste, respiratory, emergency response)
- — Manages specific EHS programs such as respiratory protection, waste-disposal compliance and emergency-response planning end to end.
- Multi-site EHS operations leadership
- — Oversees safety and environmental programs across multiple facilities, coordinating training, permit renewals and complex projects across locations.
- EHS strategy and executive advisory
- — Crafts organization-wide EHS vision, advises senior executives and translates intricate regulations into actionable strategy and policy.
- Safety investment and budget balancing
- — Justifies safety investments while managing budgets and balances worker protection against operational efficiency to build a safety-first culture.
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