Job Description

Key Responsibilities Multi-Site EHS Leadership

• Lead EHS strategy, priorities, and performance across multiple sites within the Great Lakes Region.
• Provide visible leadership, technical direction, coaching, and support to site leaders, EHS professionals, supervisors, and employees.
• Establish consistent regional expectations while adapting programs and controls to site-specific operations and risks.
• Partner with operational leaders to integrate EHS requirements into business planning, daily management, capital projects, and change management.
• Drive accountability for hazard control, corrective action closure, and sustained EHS performance at all levels of the organization.

Regulatory Compliance and Environmental Management

• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental, occupational health, and safety requirements, as well as company standards.
• Lead or support regulatory inspections, permit activities, compliance evaluations, recordkeeping, and required reporting.
• Oversee environmental programs that may include air emissions, wastewater and stormwater, hazardous materials, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, spill prevention, and emergency planning.
• Maintain effective compliance assurance processes and escalate significant risks or gaps to regional and business leadership.

Risk Management and Serious Injury Prevention

• Assess operational risks and implement effective controls using the hierarchy of controls.
• Lead regional initiatives addressing serious injury and fatality exposures, including electrical safety, hazardous energy control/LOTO, machine guarding, mobile equipment, work at height, and contractor activities.
• Conduct and support risk assessments, audits, inspections, and field observations to verify program effectiveness.
• Participate in design reviews, equipment installations, process changes, and new-site or acquisition integration as applicable.

Incident Management and Corrective Action

• Lead and coach effective investigations of injuries, illnesses, environmental events, near misses, and high-potential incidents.
• Ensure investigations identify underlying causes and result in sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor action plans, verify effectiveness, communicate lessons learned, and share improvements across the regional network.
• Support emergency preparedness, response planning, drills, and business continuity activities.

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Establish, analyze, and communicate leading and lagging EHS metrics across the region.
• Use performance data, audit findings, and risk trends to prioritize resources and improvement initiatives.
• Develop and implement regional EHS plans, objectives, and improvement roadmaps aligned with business and enterprise priorities.
• Apply continuous improvement and Human and Organizational Performance principles, where appropriate, to strengthen systems and reduce risk.

Training, Engagement, and Culture

• Assess training needs and ensure effective delivery of required EHS education across the region.
• Coach leaders to communicate expectations, reinforce safe behaviors, and address risk through routine operational engagement.
• Build partnerships across Operations, Engineering, Human Resources, Facilities, Quality, and other functions to achieve EHS objectives.
• Promote employee participation in hazard identification, problem solving, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related field.
• Progressive EHS experience in manufacturing, distribution, industrial, or other complex operational environments, including demonstrated leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting EHS programs across multiple sites, business units, or geographically dispersed operations.
• Strong working knowledge of applicable OSHA and EPA requirements and the ability to interpret state and local regulatory obligations across the region.
• Experience developing and implementing EHS management systems, compliance programs, risk controls, and performance improvement plans.
• Demonstrated capability in incident investigation, root cause analysis, corrective action management, auditing, and regulatory interaction.
• Effective leadership, communication, coaching, and influencing skills across frontline, technical, and senior leadership audiences.
• Ability to prioritize multiple initiatives, operate independently, and make sound risk-based decisions in a fast-paced multi-site environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and EHS data management or reporting systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional safety or environmental certification, such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), or an equivalent recognized credential.
• Experience leading direct or indirect EHS professionals across multiple locations.
• Experience with ISO 14001, ISO 45001, or comparable EHS management systems.
• Experience applying Lean, continuous improvement, or Human and Organizational Performance principles.
• Experience supporting electrical safety, hazardous energy control, machine safety, contractor safety, and environmental permitting programs.

Work Requirements

• Ability to work in manufacturing, warehouse, and other operational environments and to respond to significant EHS events when necessary.
• Ability to wear required personal protective equipment and conduct site inspections in operational areas.

THE VERTIV OPPORTUNITY

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

Our Core Principles: Safety | Integrity | Respect | Teamwork | Inclusion

Our Strategic Priorities

• High-Performance Culture
• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

Vertiv Behaviors

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.

Work Authorization

Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com.