Head of EHS Americas

Job Title

Head of EHS Americas

Job Description Summary

Role Purpose:
The key objective of the role is to lead the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Strategy for the Americas region and act as a trusted business partner to the Americas Executive Leadership Team(s). In additional to traditional EHS responsibilities, the role will also support and collaborate on Crisis Management & Resiliency, Security and Quality matters across the region to support the work of the wider global EHS Team. The Head of Americas EHS will work in partnership with key operational stakeholders including service line and regional leadership in order to design the strategy, agree strategic objectives and implement relevant initiatives, goals and targets to continuously improve EHS Management across the region. The role will support the operational business to deliver measurable improvements in health, safety and environmental performance across our Americas operational business.
This is a senior corporate role reporting directly to the Global Head of EHS, with indirect reporting lines into key senior stakeholders in the region including President, Americas Advisory and President, Asset Services, requiring a seasoned professional with the leadership skills necessary to work closely with and present material at a senior level.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of senior EHS directors across the region with direct line management responsibilities, including hiring, retention and personal development; partner closely with GOS and C&W Services EHS counterparts.
• Drive a culture of Environmental, Safety & Health (EHS) and visible leadership commitment in everything we do across people, assets and brand; continuous assess our organizational maturity across the region.
• Identify potential organizational risk across the region and working with operational leaders and regional EHS teams to develop appropriate EHS governance, guardrails, standards of practice and processes in alignment with the C&W global EHS strategy.
• Provide a strong focus on serious incident prevention and regional EHS initiatives prioritizing high potential risk to the business.
• Foster and maintain relationships with key service line and geographical stakeholders across North America as well as Central and South America; a critical aspect of these relationships will be advising and supporting senior stakeholders in understanding and managing critical, contentious and complex EHS matters including crisis events as and when these arise.

Implement and maintain the EHS management system for the region, including critical standards that
drive EHS expectations on the ‘why’ and ‘what’; ensure appropriate connectivity into the broader
global integrated management system; support ISO accreditation, surveillance auditing and any
expansion to scope.
• Develops and implements the annual audit and assurance plan for the region in partnership with
service line EHS teams; actively manages close out of findings across the region and
prepares/delivers periodic report-outs on assurance activity.
• Initiate and lead the EHS Ambassadors initiative and key EHS teams, designed to engage operations
and front-line employees in safety, health and wellness in a way that embeds these tenants within the
business.
• Demonstrated experience in developing senior stakeholder relationships and influencing change and
improvement at a senior level in a multinational business.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within the Americas region and will act as a crisis manager
during periods of crisis with a permanent position on the North America Crisis Management Team(s).

Any candidate for the role must have proven experience in developing and implementing basic EHS
initiatives, including but not limited to:
• Assisting the global EHS community with the development and implementation of templates,
guidelines and the mobilization of global technology tools, such as Intelex.
• Championing global EHS initiatives across their regional business as well as those developed within
the region.
• Developing, implementing and delivering appropriate regional objectives, targets and improvement
programs as part of a regional EHS Strategic Plan which will be developed by the role holder and
agreed with management.
• Identifying trends in regional accident rates and types and applying strategic initiatives to improve
EHS outcomes.
• Contributing actively to global ESG reporting
• Identifying lessons learnt from critical incidents and leading initiatives and programs to prevent
recurrences. Sharing lessons learnt globally.
• Supporting the investigation of significant incidents and identifying lessons learnt. Sharing lessons
learn