Senior HSSE Manager

APM Terminals Elizabeth Where global trade meets innovation Step into the engine room of global commerce. At APM Terminals Elizabeth, you’ll be at the center of one of the busiest port complexes in North America. Every container you touch keeps freight moving through the Port of New York / New Jersey, supporting critical supply chains across the East Coast and beyond.

This is a place where speed, scale, and precision come together. You’ll collaborate with high-performing teams in a fast-paced, high-volume environment where safety and operational excellence are the top priorities. Here, your impact is immediate and global.

At APM Terminals, a global leader in port and terminal operations, we enable global trade and drive sustainable growth. What drives us forward is a mindset of always improving — observing how work happens, identifying what creates value, and removing what gets in the way. We constantly look for smarter, simpler, and safer ways of operating. If you thrive in environments where people value learning and are committed to continuously improve daily operations, join us and be a part of our journey.

Be part of a major gateway on the U.S. East Coast. Experience high-volume, complex terminal operations. Work with driven teams in a fast-moving environment. Join a continuous improvement culture where curiosity is encouraged, root-cause problem-solving is valued, and making things better every day is part of how we win.

At APM Terminals, we foster a dynamic learning and training culture that empowers our employees to excel.

Our commitment to improvement means every team member has the opportunity to develop their skills and advance their careers by continuously refining how we work.

Experience a diverse, multinational workplace where your operational insights directly influence how we work.

• Shape HSSE strategy and governance within a complex, high-risk marine terminal operation.
• Lead safety coordination supporting modernization, electrification, emerging technology, and simultaneous operations.
• Develop HSSE professionals, operational leaders, and cross-functional teams through coaching and stretch opportunities.
• Work across terminal operations, engineering, maintenance, project teams, labor representatives, regulators, and emergency responders.

• Translate the terminal’s HSSE strategy into annual priorities, roadmaps, governance routines, resources, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead HSSE performance management using indicators, critical-control verification, trend analysis, action governance, and clear recommendations to senior leadership.
• Coordinate terminal-side HSSE governance for modernization, project interfaces, simultaneous operations, and emerging risks, including electrification and battery-energy systems.
• Strengthen critical and fatal-risk controls across vessel, yard, rail, gate, maintenance, transportation, and contractor activities.
• Lead or oversee serious-incident investigations, causal analysis, corrective actions, learning transfer, audits, regulatory matters, and emergency preparedness.
• Build visible operational ownership of safety through coaching, labor engagement, practical standards, Learning Teams, Gemba, and Kaizen methods.
• Lead and develop assigned HSSE professionals and cross-functional teams while strengthening capability and succession depth.

Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindset—curious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful, sustainable improvements over time.

Leadership expectation:
We are looking for people who consistently put customers first,…