Director of Safety Compliance

MHX, LLC

is seeking an experienced Director of Safety & Compliance to lead and strengthen our safety culture across all operations. This role is critical to achieving MHX's safety objectives, enhancing operational performance, and ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations. The successful candidate will partner closely with Operations and Executive leadership to develop, implement, and execute the company's safety action plan. This includes oversight of regulatory reporting, safety training programs, and incident analysis and mitigation. You will ensure the Safety Management System (SMS) effectively supports our people while aligning with MHX's operational goals and values.

About MHX, LLC and Company Values:

MHX, LLC, is an established rail transload company headquartered in California with locations in Arizona, Oregon, and Washington. Beyond transportation services, our company is a dynamic supply chain partner for our customers. The

MHX, LLC

mission revolves around ensuring safety, timeliness, and accuracy in our solutions. To achieve this, our company has identified five core values—The Well Being of People, Integrity, Accuracy, Customer Focus, and Constant Improvement—that serve as the foundation of our daily operations. Key Responsibilities

• Conducts and develops safety reviews, audits, inspections, and testing in the areas of operational safety, work practices, equipment and safety devices and identifies, reports, and addresses safety issues or hazards found in facilities, operating divisions, work sites, and equipment.
• Develops, improves, and implements innovative plans, procedures, processes, programs and policies to adequately address system safety issues.
• Advises Operating Leadership teams and gains concurrence to meet regulatory safety compliance and develop best practices to reduce accidents and incidents.
• Initiates investigations and, when applicable, determines root cause analyses and corrective action plans
• Analyzes strategic metrics and analytics. Incident data and reporting trends to identify emerging risks and makes recommendations to reduce accidents/incidents based on trends; monitors effectiveness of mitigating measures implemented.
• Responsible for obtaining, maintaining, auditing, and improving safety and environmental permitting required by state and federal regulations.
• Serves as first contact with any safety and compliance governing body for all MHX locations, including but not limited to: Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Certified Unified Program Agencies ( CUPAs ), fire department, state waterboard, California Air Resources Board (CARB), S outh Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), department of weights and measures, Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

• Manage, engage, and develop team of direct reports.
• Provide training and compliance resources to company.

Qualifications:

Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills

• Minimum of 7 years experience in safety and/or environmental management position
• Experience in the administration of government mandated reporting of safety and environmental programs
• Working knowledge of governmental

EH&S, DOT, OSHA

FRA, and EPA standards, rules and regulations.

• Knowledge of principles and practices of safety administration.
• Proven track record of driving results and continuous improvement in an organization.
• Ability to make decisions using ethical reasoning and sound judgment.
• Ability to conduct business with high level of confidentiality.
• Demonstrate proficiency in computer skills in a Microsoft Windows environment including data entry, database management, and proficient in Microsoft Office software.
• Competent oral and written communication to all levels of employees within the company.
• Demonstrate ability to provide detailed audit reports, with relevant required preventive and corrective measures.
• Willingness to travel up to 50-90% of the time for business purposes.
• Willingness to work varied schedules as work dictates including but not limited to on-call, overtime, shifts, 7 days a week, as well as weekends and holidays as needed.
• Bachelor's degree preferred, but not required, will consider task-related college experience and certification programs.
• Experience in developing high-performance teams.
• Demonstrate ability to negotiate and manage conflicts to satisfactory resolution.
• Demonstrate strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate influence operating management to implement corporate safety programs.
• Demonstrate coaching employees management to increase awareness of safety and environmental responsibilities.

Job Type:

Full-time Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Flexible spending account Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Retirement plan Vision insurance

Pay:

$100,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Flexible spending account Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid jury duty Paid time off Retirement plan Vision insurance People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply Application Question(s): Do you have minimum 7 years of experience in safety/environmental management positions? Do you have knowledge of government

EH&S, DOT, OSHA

FRA, and EPA standards, rules, and regulations? Do you have experience in administration of government mandated reporting of safety and environmental programs?

Work Location:

In person