VP - Environmental Health & Safety

Overview

The Vice President of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) is the senior enterprise leader accountable for setting the vision, strategy, governance, and execution model for environmental, health, safety, and risk reduction across the company’s manufacturing, distribution, field, and corporate operations. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role serves as a key advisor to the COO and senior leadership team, ensuring that safety is embedded into operating discipline, leadership routines, capital planning, operational excellence, and day-to-day decision-making. The VP EHS will lead the organization toward a proactive, prevention-based safety culture, strengthen regulatory compliance, reduce risk and incident exposure, and advance environmental stewardship while enabling safe, reliable, and efficient operations across all sites.

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Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities• Establish and lead the enterprise EHS vision, strategy, governance framework, and multi-year roadmap aligned to operational priorities, regulatory expectations, business objectives, and the company’s commitment to protecting employees.• Serve as the senior EHS advisor to the COO, executive leadership team, plant leadership, and functional leaders on safety performance, environmental compliance, operational risk, incident prevention, and emerging regulatory or industry trends.• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise-wide safety management systems, environmental management systems, standards, policies, procedures, audits, training, reporting, and accountability routines.• Drive a consistent operating model across manufacturing, distribution, field, and corporate locations while allowing appropriate site-level adaptation based on operational complexity, workforce needs, and local regulatory requirements.• Build leadership capability and accountability for safety by partnering with operations leaders to integrate EHS expectations into daily management systems, leadership standard work, performance reviews, operating reviews, and business planning.• Oversee compliance with applicable OSHA, EPA, DOT, state, local, and international requirements; ensure timely permitting, reporting, inspections, recordkeeping, corrective actions, and regulatory responses across all facilities.• Lead enterprise risk identification and mitigation, including hazard assessments, job safety analyses, process reviews, machine guarding, ergonomics, chemical safety, contractor safety, emergency preparedness, and business continuity planning.• Direct serious incident investigations, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and lessons-learned processes to ensure meaningful organizational learning and sustainable risk reduction.• Partner with HR and insurance partners to oversee workers' compensation programs, claims management, return-to-work initiatives, and cost-of-risk reduction strategies.• Establish enterprise fleet safety programs and driver risk management practices, including DOT compliance, driver qualification, accident prevention, and vehicle safety performance.• Develop and monitor key EHS performance indicators, leading and lagging metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting to identify trends, prioritize investments, track corrective actions, and communicate progress to senior leadership.• Lead environmental stewardship initiatives, including waste reduction, air and water compliance, emissions management, energy and water use, sustainability objectives, spill prevention, and responsible operating practices.• Partner with Engineering, Operations, HR, Legal, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and site leadership to ensure EHS considerations are built into capital projects, equipment purchases, facility changes, new processes, acquisitions, and operational expansions.• Assess organizational capability and structure for the EHS function; recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing EHS leaders, managers, coordinators, and technical specialists across the enterprise.• Partner with COO in developing and managing the EHS budget, resource plan, vendor partnerships, technology platforms, and external consulting relationships needed to deliver effective risk management and compliance outcomes.• Promote workforce engagement in safety through visible leadership, communication campaigns, training, employee involvement teams, safety observations, recognition programs, and practical tools that support frontline ownership.• Represent the company with regulators, customers, auditors, insurers, industry groups, and other external stakeholders on EHS matters, as appropriate.• Perform other duties and executive-level assignments as required.

Required Skills & Qualifications• Executive Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to influence executives, plant leaders, functional partners, an