Vice President of Health, Safety and Environmental

Position Overview

The Division VP of Health, Safety and Environmental is a hands-on, field-oriented player-coach role that drives step-change improvement in safety performance by influencing leaders, coaching frontline teams, and leading change where work happens.

This role is less about serving as an enterprise policy steward and more about making safety real, practical, and lived every day across operations. The leader sets clear expectations aligned with CRH and AMAT standards, but wins through presence, credibility, and the ability to move the organization forward. This position reports to the Division President.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

• Visible Safety Leadership (Player–Coach)
• Act as a consistent, credible presence in plants, yards, and jobsites
• Coach leaders to own safety as part of running the business
• Model expected behaviors and build leadership capability at all levels
• Culture & Performance Improvement
• Lead safety as a behavior-driven culture, not a compliance exercise
• Challenge legacy practices and close gaps between expectations and execution
• Translate incidents and trends into meaningful learning and behavior change
• Practical Standards & Risk Focus
• Ensure HSE standards are clear, simplified, and effectively applied
• Focus the organization on highest-risk exposures (e.g., energy isolation, transportation, slips/trips/falls)
• Drive consistency while maintaining operational practicality
• Execution Discipline & Leading Indicators
• Establish a safety operating rhythm with clear accountability and follow-through
• Prioritize meaningful leading indicators (field engagement, pre-task planning, fatigue risk)
• Use data to drive insight, decisions, and action—not reporting volume
• Leadership Capability & Integration
• Develop supervisors and managers to strengthen safety ownership
• Position safety teams as coaches and enablers to the business
• Embed safety into onboarding, leadership development, and performance management
• Serious Risk & Incident Leadership
• Maintain strong focus on serious injury and fatality prevention
• Lead high-potential incident response and ensure rapid, practical learning
• Strengthen emergency preparedness and response capability
• Growth, Risk & Governance
• Lead HSE strategy, programs, and performance across the division
• Oversee compliance, incident management, audits, and regulatory relationships
• Support acquisitions and integrations with a practical, field-based approach

Qualifications

• Education/Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Hygiene or Safety/Health related field and over 10 years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Master’s Degree is preferred.
• Knowledge/Skill Requirements
• Ability to read and comprehend complex written and verbal instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write complex correspondence.
• Ability to carefully articulate and clearly communicate both specific technical information and creatively compose development strategies.
• Ability to effectively participate in and speak to large groups. Advanced presentation skills required.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to comprehend scientific formulas.
• Detailed working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability to effectively navigate and research regulatory agency and industry related web content.
• Competencies
• Effective communication, leadership skills, strategic mindset, ability to drive vision, creative writing, clear and analytical thinking, creative presentation abilities, speaking clearly and effectively in front of large and small groups, and organization abilities.
• Demonstrated success leading safety improvement in heavy industry or field-based operations
• Track record of influencing behavior and culture—not just systems
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and through change
• Experience in multi-site or matrixed organizations preferred
• Physical Requirements
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to sit, climb, and use hands to handle or feel. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, crawl, kneel, bend, and reach with hands and arms above their shoulders.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move anywhere up to 40 lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

What CRH Offers You

• Hightly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH Americas Materials Inc.

CRH Americas Materials Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/Vet/Disability