Director, EHS Strategy, Transformation, and Compliance

Location: Washington

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What you'll be doing:

Reporting to the Associate Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), this role owns the enterprise EHS strategy, transformation, and governance framework. You will lead a team responsible for designing and scaling EHS standards and risk-mitigation programs across the organization. The position balances compliance oversight, including auditing, with operational modernization.

Responsibilities will include:

* Architecting and orchestrating the long-term EHS roadmap to drive cross-business consistency, operational efficiency, and process automation.

* Identifying cross-functional friction points and deploying data-driven automated solutions to modernize workflows

* Delivering actionable insights to business leaders, fostering a culture of active risk ownership and accountability across all business units.

* Establishing and maintaining a robust EHS governance framework. Leveraging comprehensive audit strategies to evaluate program compliance and verify performance.

* Managing and supporting the ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certifications while strategically evaluating the business case for expansion across Verizon.

* Modernizing EHS training programs by improving effectiveness, ensuring role-specific enrollment, enforcing completion accountability, and streamlining tracking and reporting.

* Overseeing the management of EHS programs and training, ensuring they are regularly reviewed, socialized, and communicated to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.

* Supporting the global business units to ensure alignment with international EHS standards (e.g., Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR)).

* Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that all EHS transformation and modernization initiatives align with core corporate leadership principles.

* Overseeing the continuous review, communication, and socialization of EHS programs to ensure strict regulatory compliance; equip the EHS team with tools to track and mitigate the impact of emerging regulations.

What we're looking for:

An effective leader and strategic thinker who motivates and inspires a team that develops and implements programs. Must have experience implementing transformation initiatives across teams. Should have experience dealing with regulatory requirements.

Demonstrated strong collaboration and communication skills. Results-driven, detail-oriented, and can work in a fast-paced and challenging environment. Anticipate needs and issues and proactively identify appropriate solutions-strong ability to work independently and multitask, with the ability to maintain confidential information.

You'll need to have:

* Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

* Ten or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

* Experience leading complex, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives or organizational change management projects.

* Demonstrated experience working with complex data sets, identifying trends, and implementing KPIs/KRIs to drive business decisions.

* Familiarity with integrating systems into ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and using Business Intelligence (BI) tools for predictive modeling.

* Experience managing budgets and identifying opportunities for operational efficiencies and cost savings through automation.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

* Industry knowledge within the telecommunications or utility sectors,…