Environmental Health & Safety Director

About the role

As the Enterprise Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) Director, you are responsible for developing, leading, and continuously improving the organization’s enterprise EH&S strategy across all locations, including distribution centers, branch operations, transportation fleets, field services, and corporate facilities. You will drive a culture of safety, environmental stewardship, regulatory compliance, and operational risk reduction while supporting sustainable business growth.

Crescent is transforming and we are on a mission to power the communities we serve through teamwork and relentless customer focus. We have a vision of uncompromising teamwork committed to becoming the industry leader for our employees, suppliers, and shareholders. At Crescent, you will have the opportunity to develop professionally, grow personally and have the flexibility to balance your life's priorities.

Responsibilities

EH&S Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and execute the enterprise EH&S strategy aligned with organizational objectives, operational priorities, and risk tolerance.
• Establish annual EH&S goals, KPIs, leading indicators, budget priorities, and enterprise governance routines.
• Lead enterprise-wide safety culture initiatives and behavioral-based safety programs.
• Lead enterprise-wide environmental compliance, occupational health, and operational excellence.
• Serve as the executive sponsor for EH&S councils, safety committees, environmental compliance reviews, and enterprise risk forums.

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA, DOT, EPA, NFPA, ANSI, federal, state, and local EH&S regulations.
• Maintain and update enterprise EH&S policies, procedures, standards, and operating controls.
• Oversee timely customer compliance audit completion.
• Oversee regulatory inspections, compliance audits, agency interactions, corrective action plans, and required reporting.
• Monitor emerging regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices impacting distribution, fleet, and field service.

Environmental Management & Compliance

• Lead enterprise environmental programs including hazardous materials management, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, recycling, spill prevention and response, stormwater, wastewater, air, and chemical management where applicable.
• Oversee environmental permits, inspections, reporting requirements, vendor performance, and environmental corrective actions.
• Develop standardized processes for environmental risk assessments, compliance calendars, audit protocols, and recordkeeping.
• Partner with operations and facilities teams to reduce environmental impacts and maintain compliant, sustainable operating practices.

Distribution, Warehouse & Field EH&S

• Establish EH&S standards for distribution centers, warehouses, branches, customer delivery environments, and field service work.
• Ensure effective controls related to forklift operations, material handling, warehouse traffic flow, fall protection, hazard communication, electrical safety, arc flash awareness, lockout/tagout, contractor safety, emergency preparedness, and environmental housekeeping.

Occupational Health & Industrial Hygiene

• Provide leadership for occupational health and industrial hygiene programs, including exposure assessments, ergonomics, hearing conservation, respiratory protection, PPE strategy, heat stress, and illness prevention.
• Partner with HR, Operations, and external providers on injury prevention, return-to-work coordination, employee wellness interfaces, medical surveillance, and work-related health risk reduction.

Transportation & Fleet Safety

• Direct fleet safety and transportation compliance programs for delivery drivers, commercial motor vehicles, and company vehicles.
• Monitor driver qualification files, DOT compliance, vehicle inspection processes, hours-of-service requirements where applicable, and fleet risk controls.
• Implement driver safety training, telematics review processes, accident prevention programs, and corrective action protocols.
• Analyze fleet incidents, claims, regulatory trends, and corrective actions to reduce preventable accidents and operating risk.

Incident Management & Risk Reduction

• Lead investigations of serious incidents, injuries, vehicle accidents, environmental releases, regulatory findings, and near misses.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions that address systemic EH&S risks.
• Develop enterprise risk mitigation strategies, emergency response plans, crisis management protocols, and business continuity support.
• Track EH&S trends and establish preventive actions using data, audits, inspections, and leading indicators.

EH&S Training & Development

• Create and oversee enterprise EH&S training programs across safety, environmental compliance, occupational health, fleet, emergency response, and job-specific risk areas.
• Ensure employees, leaders, contractors, and drivers receive appropriate certification, onboarding, annual refresher, and regulatory training.
• Develop leadership accountability training for managers and supervisors to embed EH&S expectations into daily operations.
• Support onboarding, safety orientation, environmental awareness, and site-specific training programs.

EH&S Analytics & Reporting

• Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, compliance calendars, and enterprise EH&S reporting frameworks.
• Monitor leading and lagging indicators across safety, environmental compliance, occupational health, fleet, training, audits, and corrective actions.
• Present EH&S performance, risk trends, regulatory exposure, and improvement plans to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
• Benchmark EH&S performance against industry standards and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain awareness of evolving AI technologies and actively explore how AI can improve efficiency, insights, and business performance; demonstrate curiosity, responsible use of AI tools, and a commitment to continuously building digital and AI fluency.

Business Partnership

• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, HR, Fleet, Facilities, Legal, Risk Management, Procurement, and branch leadership.
• Participate in acquisition due diligence and integration activities to establish consistent EH&S standards, governance, and compliance expectations.
• Support emergency preparedness, business continuity, contractor management, capital projects, facility changes, and operational risk reviews.

Key Performance Indicators

• Safety Performance: Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR), Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR), Days Away Restricted or Transferred Rate (DART), Severity Rate
• Leading Indicators: Safety observations completed, Near-miss reporting frequency, Corrective action closure rate, Safety training completion rate, Safety audit scores
• Environmental & Compliance Metrics: Environmental audit completion and findings closure rate, Permit,