Director of Environmental & Safety

A Brief Overview The Director of Environmental and Safety has primary responsibility for providing leadership, direction, and guidance to the Safety and Environmental Program Managers to ensure programmatic company-wide understanding and compliance with all Federal, State, and Local environmental and safety laws, regulations, and rules. This position will act as the chief advisor and report to the Senior Director of Maintenance & Facilities.

• Acts as the chief advisor to the Senior Director of Maintenance & Facilities in all matters pertaining to portfolio environmental and safety compliance and compiles, analyzes, and presents defined process metrics and data. Adheres to standard work and ensures direct report adherence.
• Evaluates environmental and safety programs for effectiveness and advises the Senior Director of Maintenance & Facilities and other executive leadership and stakeholders.
• Monitors all accidents, injuries, and near misses. Creates quarterly reports that show trends, tracks days lost, and financial losses. Partners with the Hunt Risk Management and Human Resources Departments to provide a safe and healthy workplace environment.
• Monitors all environmental incidents portfolio-wide and performs trend analysis. Creates quarterly reports to identify volume, type, and identified training needs or other mitigation strategies. Provides updates to senior leadership.
• Works directly with the Regional Maintenance Directors, Directors of Operations, and Vice Presidents of Operations to schedule and complete any site-specific training or audits.
• Ensures required safety and environmental training for all site employees is completed in partnership with Learning and Development, and periodically reviews all training content to ensure compliance with current regulations and guidance, and to assess its effectiveness.
• Develops Job Hazard Analyses for non-routine tasks completed by maintenance personnel.
• Performs accident investigations as needed and attends OSHA/EPA meetings/inquiries as required.
• Oversees the performance of site-level inspections to identify environmental hazards, operational competence with their disturbance and remediation, as well as evaluation of their management plans.
• Maintains awareness of new OSHA, EPA, and DOT regulations and prepares recommendations for compliance.
• Reviews and tracks all requests for confined-space work, hot work, or other non-routine tasks performed by site operations personnel.
• Assists with the development of environmental scopes and work plans.
• Annually audits all environmental plans for compliance and provides revision recommendations to the Senior Director of Maintenance & Facilities.
• Provides guidance and Quality Control/Quality Assurance oversight of environmental work or projects.
• Assists with selecting environmental vendors and validating required certifications.
• Assures that storage and disposal of hazardous materials are in compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
• Performs regular surveillance audits of work orders and SHARP compliance for EHS.
• Oversees required radon testing and identifies locations of active Radon systems and tracks annual Preventive Maintenance inspections.
• Ensures that unsafe conditions are corrected in a timely manner and comply with all applicable local and federal laws.
• Learns and ensures compliance with all company, local, state, and federal safety rules.
• Ensures that all environmental and safety requirements are met per the project's legal documents.
• Upholds all company policies, goals, and values.
• Represents the company in a professional manner at all times, on and off the property.
• Provides professional representation to command, housing, and other external parties.
• Escalates property issues or any crises to the appropriate parties.
• This position requires driving for the Company using either
  1) a Company vehicle, at any frequency from Rarely to Constantly; or,
  2) a Personal or Rental vehicle to conduct Company business more than 50% of the time to perform work duties.

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a focus in Environmental Health and Safety preferred.

• Three to five years experience in property management required.
• 4-6 years experience in managing Environmental Health and Safety Compliance in Construction/Property Management environment required.
• Experience with leading and implementing behavior-based safety programs required.