Director, HSE - Manufacturing

Location:

Houston, Texas

Department: DEPCON

The Director, HSE Manufacturing is a senior enterprise leadership role responsible for developing and executing a world‑class Health, Safety, and Environmental strategy across a rapidly growing manufacturing and construction organization.

This leader will serve as a strategic business partner to Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Construction teams, ensuring safety excellence is fully integrated into operational performance, Lean Enterprise principles, and business growth objectives.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience leading HSE programs within complex manufacturing environments and has a proven track record of driving cultural transformation through Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Human Performance, and Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) prevention programs.

This role requires a highly collaborative leader who thrives in a matrix organization, influencing cross‑functional stakeholders across multiple factories, project sites, and corporate functions to create a culture where Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Productivity work together to achieve operational excellence.

The Director, HSE Manufacturing drives a proactive, high‑performance safety environment across all business units - strengthening risk visibility, critical control execution, manufacturing throughput, and operational readiness. The role provides strategic direction, subject matter expertise, and executive‑level reporting to advance corporate governance, and ensure consistent safety performance across multi‑site modular factories, yards, and data center construction projects.

• Partner with Operations leadership to integrate HSE principles into Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
• Ensure safety considerations are embedded within Value Stream Design, Standard Work, Kaizen Events, MDI (Managing for Daily Improvement), Visual Management Systems, and Capacity Expansion projects.
• Support manufacturing organizations in eliminating waste, reducing variation, and improving flow while maintaining uncompromised safety standards.
• Drive integration of safety metrics into SQDCC performance management systems.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to proactively identify and eliminate ergonomic, process, and industrial risks through Lean problem‑solving methodologies.
• Champion a Safety‑First Lean Culture where safety is recognized as a foundational element of operational excellence.

• Effectively lead within a matrix organization, influencing leaders and teams without direct reporting authority.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction, Logistics, and Human Resources leaders to ensure consistent execution of enterprise safety objectives.
• Build strong relationships across multiple business units and operational sites to ensure alignment on priorities, resource allocation, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate executive‑level discussions regarding operational risks, manufacturing readiness, capacity expansion, and safety performance.
• Demonstrate servant leadership by enabling business partners to achieve operational goals through safe and sustainable processes.

• Lead the development and execution of an integrated OHSMS aligned with ISO 45001, corporate standards, Safe State, and high‑energy hazard controls.
• Embed SIF potential (pSIF) identification, SIF actual (aSIF) prevention, and critical control verification into both construction workflows and large‑scale modular manufacturing lines, where repetitive high‑risk activities…