Director of Environmental Health & Safety
industrial_energy_operations › Environmental Health & Safety · M5 — M5 — Senior Director · Management
Directs the organization's environmental health and safety programs, leading managers and setting strategy to ensure regulatory compliance and workplace safety across all sites.
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$180,120 USD
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Directs the organization's environmental health and safety programs, leading managers and setting strategy to ensure regulatory compliance and workplace safety across all sites. At the Senior Director (M5) level, the role owns multiple functions or a large department, org-level trade-offs and investment, and drives multi-function results. Leads directors and managers.
What this level does
- Directs EHS as a strategic area across a division, leading through facility/regional EHS managers with implications for overall division operations
- Defines EHS methods, policy and management-system standards (ISO 45001/14001, OSHA) applied org-wide to resolve complex, cross-site compliance issues
- Sets divisional EHS policy and reports safety and environmental performance to senior executives, influencing them on key risk decisions
- Balances competing priorities — worker protection, operational efficiency and budget — while building a safety-first culture beyond checklists
- Knowledge applied
- Applies org-wide EHS methods and standards to direct strategic programs with division-level impact.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves complex org-wide compliance and risk issues and defines the methods used across sites.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Influences executives and key regulators/customers on major EHS issues; leads through department managers.
- Typical experience
- 10–12+ yrs including second-level management and strategy work.
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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