Safety Engineer Principal
About The Position
The Principal Safety Engineer is a senior individual contributor within Lennox’s Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHSS) organization, operating at a level equivalent to a Senior Manager. This role serves as an enterprise technical leader responsible for designing, scaling, and advancing safety programs across Lennox’s global operations. Reporting to the Director of Corporate EHSS, this role requires significant influence across multi-site operations, engineering, and leadership teams. The Principal Safety Engineer translates complex risk into scalable, data-driven solutions that improve safety performance, strengthen compliance, and enable operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of progressive multi-site EHSS experience
- Experience designing and scaling enterprise-wide safety programs
- Deep knowledge of safety programs, risk assessment, and regulatory requirements
- Expertise in industrial safety and high-risk operations
- Proven ability to influence without authority across multi-site environments
- Strong mentoring and capability-building skills
- Experience with EHSS systems and data analytics platforms
- Advanced Excel and reporting capabilities
Responsibilities
- Lead development and deployment of enterprise-wide safety programs across multiple sites
- Translate risk insights into standardized and scalable processes
- Drive adoption and sustainment of programs across the organization
- Serve as a senior technical authority for safety programs and risk reduction
- Influence cross-functional teams to drive alignment and execution
- Mentor EHSS and operations leaders to build capability
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to drive year-over-year safety performance
- Standardize best practices and reduce variability across sites
- Apply Lean and structured problem-solving methodologies
- Conduct complex safety and ergonomic risk assessments
- Provide expertise in LOTO, machine safeguarding, PIT, and pedestrian safety
- Partner with engineering to implement effective controls
- Analyze safety data to identify trends and prioritize risk reduction
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools for leadership
- Ensure data integrity and effective system utilization
- Lead EHSS audits and drive corrective actions
- Ensure compliance with OSHA and environmental regulations
- Support the development of policies and standards
- Lead incident investigations using RCA, FMEA, and 8D methodologies
- Identify systemic issues and implement preventive solutions
Benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- prescription drug coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short-term disability insurance
- 8 weeks paid birthing leave
- 2 weeks paid bonding leave
- life and long-term disability insurance
- up to 12 days paid time off
- 2 paid well-being days
- 1 paid volunteer day
- 12 paid holidays
- 3 floating holidays per year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
