Vice President of Health, Safety & Environmental; HSE

IPS is built on a foundation of strong leadership, guided by our shared values of safety, accountability, integrity, teamwork, entrepreneurial spirit, and customer focus. As a senior leader at IPS, you’ll be able to shape strategic initiatives, inspire teams, and influence the future of our organization.

We are looking for servant leaders who are action‑oriented and committed to delivering unmatched customer and employee experiences. Your leadership will drive transformative projects, redefine industry standards, and leave a lasting legacy.

At IPS, you’ll find a platform for high potential growth, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. If you’re ready to lead with vision and inspire innovation, apply now and become a key player in our journey to redefine success.

• Lead and continuously improve IPS’s enterprise HSE strategy to support operational excellence, growth, and business performance.
• Build a high‑performing HSE leadership team.
• Provide leadership and direction to regional and divisional HSE leaders, establishing clear accountability and performance expectations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Performance Officer, Division Presidents, and Executive Leadership Team.
• Drive a proactive culture focused on critical risk management, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead enterprise initiatives involving electrical safety, energized work, arc flash protection, lockout/tagout, confined space entry, lifting and rigging, driving safety, contractor safety, and field service operations.
• Ensure strong governance and consistent execution of HSE standards across all divisions, service centers, and field operations.
• Develop executive‑level reporting and dashboards that provide meaningful visibility into leading and lagging indicators, emerging risks, and organizational capability.
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, corrective action programs, and enterprise‑wide learning initiatives.
• Partner with Operations, HR, Legal, Risk Management, and CIPS leaders to strengthen safety performance and operational discipline.
• Embed IPS safety culture as a foundational integration priority in acquired businesses, ensuring standards and accountability are established.
• Set non‑negotiable safety performance standards and hold leaders at every level accountable, escalating concerns and stopping work when necessary, regardless of organizational level.
• Represent IPS with customers, regulators, industry organizations, and external stakeholders as a senior executive leader.
• Build safety leadership capability in operational leaders—Division Presidents, Service Center GMs, and field supervisors—ensuring every leader is equipped and expected to drive safety performance, not just the HSE team.
• Leverage technology and predictive analytics to drive proactive risk identification, digital safety workflows, and real‑time performance visibility across the enterprise.

• IPS demonstrates measurable year‑over‑year improvement in leading and lagging safety performance indicators, with zero critical incidents as the standard, while strengthening operational execution and uptime.
• The HSE organization is viewed as a strategic business partner and trusted advisor to operations.
• Enterprise safety standards are consistently executed across all business units and acquired companies.
• Safety leadership is scalable and capable of supporting significant organizational growth and future ownership transitions.
• Executive leadership, employees, customers, and investors view IPS as an industry leader in safety performance and risk management.
• A robust leading‑indicator program—behavioral observations, near‑miss reporting, safety conversation frequency, and audit closure rates—is active across all divisions and demonstrably drives proactive risk reduction.
• Safety metrics are embedded in operational leader scorecards and performance evaluations enterprise‑wide, reinforcing safety as a core leadership competency alongside financial and operational results.

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Engineering,…