EH&S Associate Director
About the role
Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions. As a key member of the Integrated Supply Chain team, you'll lead EHS initiatives across multiple locations, champion a zero-harm culture, and partner with stakeholders across the organization to ensure compliance, continuous improvement, and progress toward our sustainability goals.
Responsibilities
- Be the EHS champion who motivates, inspires, instills passion and drives compliance and continues improvement across multiple facilities and cultures.
- Be responsible for coordination, alignment, harmonization, standard process sharing and communication on EHS programs.
- Develop strategic plans in collaboration with business and functional needs; implement, monitor, analyze and report on EHS initiatives and progress.
- Provide clear and continuous direction to the site teams driving a zero harm mentality safety culture.
- Develop and apply proactive EHS tools and deploy improvements as needed.
- Lead environmental processes to ensure company and regulatory requirements are met in relation to permitting obligations, discharge and emissions limits as well as hazardous/special waste management.
- Drive environmental sustainability progress through identification and completion of projects supporting nVent sustainability targets.
- Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and proactively close related gaps and deficiencies.
- Cook up and engage plant personnel in the identification, development and implementation of EHS programs that will positively affect and contribute to the organization.
- Lead EHS incidents through problem solving, coaching and scaling corrective action.
- Implement Safety Management Systems (SMS) and Environmental Management Systems (EMS) achieving respective ISO external certifications for focus facilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in EHS, Operations, Engineering, or business related field; MBA or master's level education preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience leading all aspects of safety and environmental management systems.
- Previous experience leading safety across construction, field services and multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a leadership role strongly preferred.
- Ability to travel a minimum of 50% of the time.
- Spanish speaking capability a plus.
Qualifications
- Commitment to safety and sustainability drives everything we do.
- Dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world.
- Plentiful career opportunities and ample impact.
- Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers.
Skills
- Innovative & adaptable
- Dedicated to absolute integrity
- Focused on the customer first
- Respectful and team oriented
- Optimistic and energizing
- Accountable for performance
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
- A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
- Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.
Pay
Pay Transparency: nVent’s pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee’s work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply. Compensation Range $146,300.00 - $271,700.00 Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.
Schedule
Flexible schedule to accommodate travel and project demands.