Cactus Wellhead - HSE Director

Location

Houston, TX 77024, USA - 920 Memorial City Way, Ste 300

The Director of Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) provides strategic leadership for Cactus Wellhead’s HSE function across manufacturing facilities, service centers, field operations, and other operating locations. This position is responsible for developing and executing the HSE strategy; leading the HSE Management System; ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory, customer, and company requirements; and partnering with executive and operations leadership to strengthen HSE culture, reduce risk, and improve overall business performance.

The Director will champion a proactive, learning-based, and interdependent safety culture that supports operational excellence and protects employees, contractors, customers, communities, and the environment.

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the company’s HSE strategy, objectives, and annual operating plan in alignment with business priorities.
• Partner with executive leadership, regional leadership, plant leadership, and service operations leadership to embed HSE expectations into daily operations and drive shared accountability for results.
• Promote and sustain a strong HSE culture through leadership engagement, field presence, employee involvement, open communication, and continuous learning.
• Serve as a key advisor and change agent to operational leaders on HSE risks, compliance obligations, and performance improvement opportunities.

• Direct the development, implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the Cactus HSE Management System (HSEMS), including policies, standards, procedures, programs, forms, and governance processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulatory requirements, customer requirements, industry standards, and internal company expectations.
• Oversee HSE audits, inspections, assessments, and compliance reviews, and ensure timely closure of corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor regulatory changes, emerging industry standards, and best practices; provide guidance to leadership on implications for the business and implementation requirements.
• Ensure effective hazard identification, risk assessment, and risk mitigation processes are established and consistently applied across manufacturing, service, field, and support operations.
• Support safe execution of operations by partnering with leaders on management of change, safe work practices, contractor management, capital projects, facility changes, and operational readiness activities.
• Provide HSE oversight and technical support for significant operational risks, environmental aspects, occupational health exposures, and emergency preparedness and response programs.

• Lead or oversee the investigation of significant incidents, injuries, near misses, and environmental events to ensure root causes are identified, lessons learned are communicated, and effective corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate leading and lagging HSE performance indicators, trends, and balanced performance measures to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
• Ensure HSE recordkeeping, reporting, and data integrity are maintained to support regulatory compliance, customer reporting, internal reporting, and strategic decision‑making.
• Facilitate organizational learning events, management reviews, and action plan follow‑up for significant incidents, trends, and recurring exposures.

• Lead the development and implementation of HSE training, awareness, and communication…