Senior Director, Environmental Health & Safety
industrial_energy_operations › Environmental Health & Safety · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive who leads the organization's overall environmental health and safety strategy, programs, and staff across multiple sites or business units.
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$231,048 USD
▲ +182.2% vs M1 on this ladder
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior executive who leads the organization's overall environmental health and safety strategy, programs, and staff across multiple sites or business units. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Crafts the long-term EHS vision across the organization, acting as key advisor to senior leadership and translating intricate regulations into actionable enterprise strategy
- Leads through senior EHS managers across multiple functions, sites or divisions, with decisions carrying long-term effect on company success
- Reports EHS performance and risk directly to the executive suite (COO/CFO/CEO) and negotiates safety-investment and policy matters at that level
- Defines abstract, cross-functional strategy on regulatory change, capital safety investment and safety culture spanning the entire portfolio of sites
- Knowledge applied
- Defines enterprise EHS strategy and policy, integrating regulatory foresight into long-term business direction.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses abstract, cross-functional issues with long-term effect on company success.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with C-suite executives on critical safety/environmental matters; policy influencer.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ yrs of deep EHS leadership across departments or divisions.
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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