Sr HSE Programs Manager

Location: Houston, TX | Department: DEPCON

About the role

The Senior HSE Programs Manager provides enterprise leadership for the design, governance, implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement of Health, Safety, and Environmental systems and programs across IMC Manufacturing, CCM Construction, IMC Service, and corporate HSE initiatives. Reporting to the Vice President, Safety, this role converts business strategy, operational risk, regulatory requirements, and organizational growth needs into scalable enterprise processes and capabilities. This role leads the Enterprise HSE Systems, Programs & Governance function and serves as the primary integration point among business-unit HSE leaders, Operations, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Human Resources and Learning, Document Control, Quality and Operational Excellence, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Marketing, and Executive Leadership. The position ensures HSE requirements are integrated into planning, design, systems, training, documentation, implementation, and performance reporting.

The Senior HSE Programs Manager directly leads a lean enterprise team and provides functional governance to matrixed training resources, subject-matter experts, HSE system users, and business-unit partners. The role is accountable for enterprise HSE program governance and portfolio oversight, including alignment and implementation support for SafeState™, Energy-Based Safety, Human Performance, the HSE technology roadmap, training and competency governance, performance intelligence, upstream operational integration, and assigned sustainability initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Strategy & Program Portfolio
  • Develop and execute the enterprise HSE systems, programs, and governance roadmap aligned with corporate strategy, operational priorities, and business growth.
  • Establish annual enterprise program priorities, milestones, owners, implementation expectations, performance measures, and governance reviews.
  • Advise the Vice President, Safety on organizational capability, staffing, technology, vendor, budget, and investment needs required to scale the function.
  • Align enterprise initiatives with SafeState™, Energy-Based Safety, Human Performance, enterprise management-system principles, operational excellence, and approved business priorities.
  • Anticipate the HSE program, systems, training, and reporting needs associated with new facilities, projects, services, customers, acquisitions, and organizational change.
• Program Architecture & Governance
  • Own the enterprise HSE program lifecycle from intake and risk prioritization through design, review, approval, publication, training, implementation, measurement, revision, and retirement.
  • Establish common enterprise standards while enabling controlled business-unit, facility, project, customer, and jurisdictional supplements where required.
  • Translate regulatory, operational, customer, and technical requirements into scalable business processes, standards, procedures, workflows, tools, and implementation plans.
  • Define program ownership, decision rights, approval pathways, review cadences, implementation accountabilities, and measures of effectiveness.
  • Coordinate technical review and approval with subject-matter experts, business leaders, Legal, Human Resources, and Document Control.
  • Monitor program implementation, adoption, operating barriers, effectiveness, and revision needs across Manufacturing, Construction, and Service.
• HSE Systems, Data & Performance Intelligence
  • Serve as the HSE business owner for HammerTech and future HSE platforms, including the enterprise roadmap, operating model, enhancement priorities, and support expectations.
  • Define HSE business requirements for workflows, forms, permissions, user roles, notifications, data fields, reporting logic, and process controls.
  • Partner with Information Technology, Business Intelligence, enterprise data owners, and vendors on architecture, integrations, security, testing, support, and technical delivery.
  • Establish HSE KPI definitions, data-quality requirements, dashboards, scorecards, executive reporting, leading indicators, and performance-review processes.
  • Monitor adoption, utilization, data completeness, user experience, and support demand; lead user acceptance testing, issue prioritization, change adoption, and continuous optimization.
• Operational Integration & Business Process Design
  • Integrate HSE upstream into scope development, value-stream planning, design engineering, project planning, commissioning, manufacturing, construction, and field-service processes.
  • Establish HSE review triggers and operational-readiness gates for new work, equipment, products, layouts, processes, technologies, and significant changes.
  • Partner with Operations and Engineering to identify foreseeable risks early and prioritize elimination, substitution, and engineered controls before relying on administrative controls or PPE.
  • Ensure enterprise programs are operationally practical and appropriately adapted to the distinct needs of Manufacturing, Construction, and Service without unnecessary duplication.
  • Conduct field and facility engagement, process mapping, stakeholder workshops, and operational reviews to identify gaps, validate requirements, and improve execution.
• Training & Competency Governance
  • Own the enterprise HSE training and competency framework, including role-based matrices, curriculum standards, learning pathways, trainer qualification, records expectations, competency verification, and effectiveness measures.
  • Build and govern a distributed training model using designated HSE trainers, qualified subject-matter experts, and business-unit training resources, including the IMC Service HSE Training Manager.
  • Translate enterprise programs into role-based learning objectives, onboarding requirements, facilitator materials, practical assessments, refresher expectations, and verified competency.
  • Partner with Human Resources, Learning and Development, Operations, and business-unit HSE leaders on learning systems, assignments, records, workforce planning, and scalable delivery.
  • Ensure new and revised programs have the required training, communications, systems, tools, ownership, and implementation support before operational release.
• Risk, Assurance & Continuous Improvement
  • Establish and maintain enterprise risk-governance methods that connect facility, project, service, and value-stream risk registers to program, training, systems, capital, and leadership priorities.
  • Provide enterprise governance for incident classification, notification, investigation methods, corrective-action quality, verification, trend learning, and lessons-learned deployment.
  • Support compliance audits, management-system assessments, program assurance reviews, and enterprise readiness for ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and other applicable standards.
  • Analyze incidents, observations, risk data, audit findings, system use, training performance, and operational feedback to identify systemic improvement opportunities.
  • Lead structured gap assessments, root-cause reviews, pilots, corrective-action governance, and continuous-improvement initiatives across the enterprise portfolio.
• Sustainability & Emerging Enterprise Programs
  • Support the development of enterprise sustainability governance, materiality assessment, environmental performance priorities, and related strategic programs as assigned.
  • Partner with business leaders to map the value chain and identify material impacts, risks, opportunities, stakeholder expectations, data needs, and functional ownership.
  • Translate approved material topics and emerging enterprise priorities into governance, programs, responsibilities, metrics, targets, reporting, and improvement plans.
  • Coordinate with Finance, Operations, Procurement, Legal, Human Resources, Quality, Engineering, and other functions to integrate sustainability requirements into business processes.
  • Monitor emerging customer, regulatory, investor, and market expectations and recommend proportionate readiness actions to the Vice President, Safety.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Change Management
  • Lead enterprise working groups, governance councils, pilots, implementation teams, and cross-functional reviews for priority HSE programs and systems.
  • Establish clear ownership boundaries: Enterprise HSE Programs defines HSE business requirements and governance while operational and shared-service functions retain their core accountabilities.
  • Influence across multiple business units and functions without direct authority, resolve barriers, and escalate decisions or risks requiring executive direction.
  • Communicate program status, risks, performance trends, resource needs, and strategic recommendations to the Vice President, Safety and other senior leaders.
  • Lead stakeholder engagement, communications, change-management, and adoption strategies that translate enterprise expectations into sustained operational practice.
• Leadership Responsibilities
  • Provide direct leadership to assigned enterprise resources, which may include:
    • HSE Systems & Data Analyst
    • Enterprise HSE Training & Competency Lead
    • Future HSE program, systems, performance, or project resources as approved
  • Provide functional governance and matrixed alignment to enterprise and business-unit resources, including:
    • Designated HSE Trainers – IMC Manufacturing
    • Designated HSE Trainers – IMC Service
    • Designated HSE Trainers – CCM Construction
    • Qualified HSE and technical subject-matter experts
    • HSE platform super users and site coordinators
    • Program owners, operational sponsors, and implementation teams
    • Business-unit and Regional HSE leaders
    • Cross-functional partners supporting enterprise programs and systems
    • Sustainability and materiality assessment workstream participants

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Business, Industrial Management, Information Systems, or a related field
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• OSHA 30-Hour Construction or General Industry
• First Aid/CPR/AED
• 10+ years of progressive HSE, enterprise program, management-system, or operational-risk experience
• Minimum 5 years leading enterprise, regional, multi-site, or cross-functional HSE programs, systems, or improvement initiatives
• Demonstrated success building organizational capability, leading direct and matrixed resources, and managing a complex program portfolio
• Experience supporting construction, manufacturing, industrial, mission-critical, field-service, or other complex operating environments
• Experience designing, implementing, governing, and improving HSE management systems, standards, processes, training, and performance frameworks
• Experience with digital HSE platforms, data governance, reporting, dashboards, user adoption, and technology-enabled process improvement
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change, influence senior stakeholders, develop talent, and translate strategy into execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, or a related discipline
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher
• OSHA 500 and/or OS