Director, Corporate Environmental, Health, and Safety

Overview

We are committed to advancing safety and sustainability in our products, services, and operations. Encouraging engagement and adopting safety-minded behaviors are key elements in keeping employees safe. We continue to make progress in reducing employee injuries by increasing engagement, identifying/reducing risk, and executing detailed action plans on our core safety initiatives.

We aggressively pursue sustainability reductions and measure results for energy, greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste, and water. We continue to make substantial progress by investing in capital dedicated to sustainability projects and encouraging our employees to adopt conservation minded behaviors.

Director, Corporate EHS
, you will drive Lennox’s global efforts for safety, ergonomics, environmental, sustainability, remediation, and compliance. The position is responsible for EHS across Lennox, directly leading a team of 8 EHS professionals and indirectly leading EHS teams across our operations. The position will interact with the Board of Directors, CEO, executive team, and operations leaders.

Candidates must have experience in managing safety, ergonomics, environmental, sustainability programs and active employee engagement programs in a multi-site manufacturing, distribution, and service company. The successful candidate will be a visible and influential safety leader who instills a culture of responsibility, ensuring leaders at every level take ownership of safety performance. This role requires the ability to set clear expectations, hold teams accountable to high standards, and foster a workplace where responsibility for safety and sustainability is shared, consistent, and measurable.

This role reports into the EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer.

• Promote a shared vision for EHS Excellence
• Direct, manage and inspire a team of talented EHS leads and external consultants
• Develop, support, lead, and execute strategies to reduce:
  • Workplace safety and ergonomic injury risks
  • Environmental emissions and impacts
• Develop and implement plans to achieve environmental sustainability goals for energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste, recyclables, & water stewardship
• Establish effective partnerships with business unit operations teams, collaborating cross-functionally, to ensure success and results attainment
• Develop and execute an overall program management and change management strategy
• Develop and execute a strategy to centralize disparate fields of data to streamline reporting efforts
• Oversee administration of audits of the company’s facilities and compliance with implementation of the audit findings
• Prioritize and continually improve the company’s EHS compliance strategies and management systems
• Identify and monitor safety and environmental regulatory changes that could affect the company’s operations and implement appropriate engagement and/or mitigation strategies
• Maintain and improve policies, guidelines, and operational procedures related to EHS
• Teach and mentor other EHS professionals
• Appreciation for the need to recognize performance contributions and celebrate accomplishments
• Implement programs/processes to ensure compliance with domestic & international EHS legislation
• Manage remediation sites: strategy, budget, and assessments

Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of professional experience, with at least five years developing and executing corporate-wide EHS programs
• Demonstrated career progression that includes or leads to corporate function responsibility
• Manufacturing industry knowledge and experience
• Proven track record managing a team
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent analytical, project management, presentation, and influencing skills
• Demonstrated project management experience in a corporate function
• Extensive knowledge of applicable US federal and state EHS regulations
• Working knowledge of Mexican and Canadian environmental regulatory programs (preferred)
• Working knowledge of safety and environmental compliance and sustainability data aggregation, sustainability reporting, and verification
• Experience working with…