Health & Safety Manager - Washington (Vancouver), Oregon (Portland), or California (Selby/Stockton))

About the Role

Provide leadership and support to regional locations and functions in matters related to environmental, health, safety, pipeline, cultural, and operational excellence. Responsible for managing day-to-day HSE field compliance; correlating and auditing operational activities against current permits; compliance with all environmental permitting requirements; OSHA safety compliance program; and providing accurate and comprehensive health, safety, and environmental training for the operational group.

Responsibilities

• Manage HSE field compliance teams in respective region.
• Implement HSE policy and procedures to ensure field compliance.
• Manage auditing of field operations against permits and other permissive documentations provided by agencies, federal, state, or local governments.
• Manage OSHA safety program, including PSM-based safety program, industrial hygiene, medical surveillance, safety recognition, training, and environmental compliance management programs.
• Ensure completion of day-to-day environmental activities, waste disposal, agency notifications, agency inspections, compliance reporting, and recordkeeping.
• Represent company in regulatory and customer inspections, meetings, and information requests.
• Minimize civil and criminal environmental liabilities through communications and negotiations.
• Impact multi-million-dollar environmental budget, including permitting, consulting, pollution control, and waste handling.
• Support regional field operations in all HSE matters.
• Promote continuous HSE improvement in all field offices through incident investigations, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Communicate field compliance to management (Regional and Corporate).
• Lead the implementation and maintenance of region and facility-specific compliance calendars.
• Ensure maintenance of facility response, integrated contingency, and various other required response plans throughout the region.
• Backup West Region HSE Team members when required.
• Budget, allocate, and accrue resources for the function.
• Ensure accurate and appropriate correspondence with local, state, federal governments, as well as industry partners and customers.
• Ensure completion of West Region HSE Team compliance activities and coordinate response to emergency spills and incident investigations.
• Other related duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science or related field required. Multimedia Environmental services with emphasis in California, Washington, or Oregon is highly recommended.
• Minimum of 8 years of directly related industry experience.
• At least 5 years leading teams or overseeing staff.
• Negotiation & problem-solving skills — Demonstrated ability to resolve issues and drive sound decision-making.
• Leadership of peers and supervisors — Proven success influencing and guiding colleagues at multiple levels.
• Experience in oil & gas or similarly complex industries, ideally with pipeline and terminal operations.
• Environmental regulatory knowledge — Strong understanding of state and federal regulations affecting operational locations.
• Working knowledge of Water, Air, Safety & Pipeline regulations and leadership principles.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Microsoft Office proficiency — Functional knowledge of Office tools and ability to learn multiple electronic systems.
• Able to operate independently while upholding organizational core values and ethical standards.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to walk, sit, talk, and hear.
• Occasionally required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• May occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Pay

The current pay range for this position is $160,000 – $185,000. The listed pay range represents the company’s good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum base rate of pay for this position at the time of this posting. The selected candidate’s compensation will be determined based on their work location, qualifications, relevant experience, operational needs, demonstrated performance over time, and internal pay alignment.

Benefits

• Access to health, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(k) match with additional profit sharing.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Abundant career opportunities.