EH&S Associate Director
About The Position
The EH&S Associate Director is a member of nVent’s Integrated Supply Chain team and leads environmental, health, and safety initiatives across multiple locations for the Systems Protection Engineered Building Solutions (EBS) business. The role partners with business and functional stakeholders to promote a zero-harm culture, ensure regulatory and company compliance, support continuous improvement, and advance sustainability goals. The position coordinates and harmonizes EHS programs, develops and implements strategic plans, monitors and reports on progress, and provides direction to site teams. It also leads environmental compliance processes, including permitting, discharge and emissions limits, and hazardous and special waste management. The role addresses regulatory gaps, leads incident problem-solving and corrective action, develops proactive EHS tools, and implements Safety and Environmental Management Systems to achieve ISO external certifications at focus facilities. The role requires at least 50% travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in EHS, Operations, Engineering, or a business-related field.
- 10 or more years of progressive experience leading all aspects of safety and environmental management systems.
- Previous experience leading safety across construction, field services, and multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Ability to travel a minimum of 50% of the time.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or master’s-level education.
- At least 2 years of experience in a leadership role.
- Spanish-speaking capability.
Responsibilities
- Champion EHS compliance and continuous improvement across multiple facilities and cultures, motivating teams and promoting a zero-harm safety culture.
- Coordinate, align, harmonize, share, and communicate EHS programs and standard processes.
- Develop strategic plans with business and functional stakeholders; implement, monitor, analyze, and report on EHS initiatives and progress.
- Provide ongoing direction to site teams to advance a zero-harm safety culture.
- Develop and apply proactive EHS tools and deploy improvements as needed.
- Lead environmental processes to meet company and regulatory requirements for permitting, discharge and emissions limits, and hazardous and special waste management.
- Identify and complete projects that support nVent sustainability targets.
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulations and proactively address gaps and deficiencies.
- Engage plant personnel in identifying, developing, and implementing EHS programs.
- Lead EHS incident problem-solving, coaching, and corrective-action scaling.
- Implement Safety Management Systems (SMS) and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) to achieve external ISO certifications at focus facilities.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
- Critical illness and accident insurance.
- Life insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Employee stock purchase plan with company match.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Caregiver, personal, and parental leave.
- Back-up care services.
- Paid time off, including volunteer time.
- Well-being program.
- Legal and identity theft protection.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
