Director Environment Health Safety

Director Environment Health Safety at Frontline Source Group - Nationwide Staffing & Executive Search Director Environment Health Safety at Frontline Source Group - Nationwide Staffing & Executive Search in aurora, Colorado Posted in 4 days ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Environmental Health and Safety Director Our client located in Aurora, CO is adding an EHS Director to their team. This is a direct hire on site leadership role with regular travel to multiple operating locations Company Profile A large and growing industrial equipment and services organization operating across multiple locations in high risk environments including field operations, warehouse distribution, transportation, rental services, and mining related job sites. The organization is executive led, with a strong focus on operational execution, customer commitments, and workforce safety. The business has experienced significant growth in headcount and operational complexity, creating a need to elevate safety from a tactical function to an enterprise leadership discipline.

EHS Director Role:

This is a senior level EHS leadership role responsible for transforming and leading the organization's environmental, health, and safety strategy across a complex multi location footprint. The Director will serve as a member of the executive leadership structure and act as the primary architect of the company wide safety system. The focus is not on day to day task execution but on building scalable programs, strengthening leadership accountability, and driving measurable cultural and operational change.

Key responsibilities include:

Lead enterprise wide environmental, health, and safety strategy across all operating locations Transition EHS from tactical execution to a structured, scalable management system Build and standardize safety programs, policies, and procedures across all business units Strengthen and formalize safety training systems including onboarding and ongoing workforce development Lead the evolution and full utilization of incident reporting systems including EHS Insights Establish consistent root cause analysis methodology, ideally leveraging structured frameworks such as Taproot or equivalent Develop and implement structured field observation and audit programs in partnership with operations leaders Partner directly with executive leadership to align safety strategy with business objectives Monitor and interpret regulatory requirements including OSHA, MSHA, and DOT and ensure compliance across all operations Lead safety culture transformation across high risk operational environments Provide executive level reporting, insights, and recommendations based on field data and risk trends Oversee and develop a growing team of EHS professionals including specialists, training resources, and data support roles Support expansion planning as the organization adds new operating locations Represent the organization in external safety, regulatory, and industry related forums Drive continuous improvement in accident prevention, hazard identification, and risk mitigation systems

EHS Director Background Profile:

The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical EHS expertise and strong organizational leadership capability.

Required experience and attributes:

Ten or more years of progressive environmental, health, and safety leadership experience Experience operating in large, complex, multiple location environments with at least two thousand employees Demonstrated leadership of teams of five or more EHS professionals Strong working knowledge of OSHA, MSHA, and DOT regulatory environments Background in high risk or heavy industrial environments such as mining, oil and gas, utilities, rail, logistics, or equipment rental and field service operations Experience both operating within established EHS systems and building or rebuilding EHS programs Proven ability to influence executive leadership and drive change through organizational alignment rather than direct control Strong capability in translating field level risk into executive level strategy and action Experience improving or implementing safety training systems, incident management systems, and root cause analysis processes Strong analytical capability and ability to interpret safety data into actionable insights High level of field credibility combined with executive presence Preferred experience: Exposure to multiple organizational environments across different companies or divisions Experience in both structured safety organizations and transformation environments where systems were underdeveloped Prior responsibility for multi location or multi state operations

Benefits and Features:

Base plus Bonus PTO and Holiday Pay High visibility with CEO, President, and executive leadership team Opportunity to design and implement a full scale EHS transformation program Strong influence over safety strategy, systems, and team design Opportunity to build and expand the EHS function as the organization continues to grow Significant impact on workforce safety outcomes across a large and complex operational footprint Direct ownership of enterprise safety performance improvement initiatives