Regional Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety

Regional Manager, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

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This position serves as Valmont's Regional Manager, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), with expanded oversight across a defined geographic region with multiple sites or across multiple businesses. This role leads the deployment of EHS strategies and systems across multiple sites or businesses, ensuring consistency and alignment with corporate objectives. The Regional Manager collaborates with senior leaders and site teams to drive performance, manage risk, and support regulatory compliance.

This position plays a more strategic role in shaping EHS culture, while continuing to support incident response, system improvements, and integration of EHS into business operations.

Essential Functions:

• Oversees a defined geographic region with multiple sites or across multiple businesses.
• Reports to the EHS Director; more likely to have direct reports.
• Responsible for regional implementation of EHS strategy across multiple sites or multiple businesses.
• Leads cross-site/cross-business initiatives and ensures alignment with corporate standards.
• Drives continuous improvement across the region; multiple sites or multiple businesses.
• Leads multi-site/multi-business risk assessments and hazard mitigation.
• Acts as a liaison between corporate and site-level teams.
• Provides strategic input into EHS program development.
• Support the development and maintenance of Global EHS Standards related to occupational safety, fire protection, environmental and sustainability compliance; examples include Accountability, Electrical Safety, Hazard Communication, Hot Work, Contractors, Fall Protection, Due Diligence, Site Closure, etc.
• Support the implementation, update, and maintenance of Valmont's EHS Information Management System (Intelex) and LMS training platforms;
  Integrates business strategy into automated and semi-automated processes
• Develops and maintains risk assessment tools to identify and minimize exposure to safety hazards
• Effective oral/written communication skills to clearly and concisely present information to key stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize a large number of projects and track projects through completion
• Ability to effectively interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships
• Thorough knowledge of OSHA, EPA and Fire Prevention technologies (or similar region/country regulations)
• Recognize and be able to integrate Lean and Continuous Improvement (CI) concepts into EHS and vice-versa
• This role requires up to 50% travel (internationally/domestically), including overnight stays

Other Important Details about the Role:

• Serves as a liaison between Global EHS and Risk Management and Human Resources on applicable topics
• Develops and support implementation of emergency management and business continuity programs
• Leads the serious post incident review, communication of incidents that result or have the potential to result in serious injury; partners with Regional EHS Directors/Managers to identify root causes and preventive actions are effectively deployed across the organization
• Provides training/mentoring to regional/site representatives to strengthen EHS compliance and best practices
• Ensures the preparation of material evidence for hearings, lawsuits, and insurance investigations
• Formulates and implements actions on various EHS topics, as necessary, and shares updates with senior leadership
• Provide training on in-house compliance assurance program (CAP) and ensures…