The Senior Regional EHS Manager provides environmental, health, and safety support to assigned operations while providing direct leadership and supervision to Regional EHS Managers. The position maintains the core field responsibilities of a Regional EHS Manager, with additional accountability for team development, work prioritization, consistency of field support, and first-level escalation of significant EHS issues.
This role partners with operational leadership to support regulatory compliance, risk reduction, incident prevention, and execution of established EHS programs and priorities. The Senior Regional EHS Manager serves as a coach, consultant, and technical resource while reinforcing that operational leaders remain responsible and accountable for the safety and compliance performance of their operations.
The Senior Regional EHS Manager reports significant risks, field trends, resource needs, and matters requiring broader organizational consideration to the Director, EHS.
Responsibilities:
Field EHS Support
- Provide EHS support and guidance to assigned facilities and operational leaders.
- Build effective working relationships with facility, regional, and division leadership.
- Serve as a coach and technical resource regarding EHS requirements, risk reduction, and safe work practices.
- Support implementation of established EHS programs, standards, initiatives, and priorities.
- Assist operational leaders in identifying hazards, evaluating risk, and developing practical corrective actions.
- Reinforce operational ownership and accountability for safety, employee behavior, compliance, and corrective-action execution.
- Provide field support based on operational need, risk, and EHS performance.
Team Leadership & Supervision
- Directly supervise assigned Regional EHS Managers.
- Establish individual priorities and expectations consistent with department objectives and direction established by the Director, EHS.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, and development planning with assigned team members.
- Coach and develop Regional EHS Managers to strengthen technical capability, business partnership, communication, and field effectiveness.
- Coordinate field coverage and workload across assigned Regional EHS resources.
- Support onboarding and development of new EHS team members.
- Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and consistent field support across the Regional EHS team.
- Identify staffing, capability, or resource needs and provide recommendations to the Director, EHS.
EHS Compliance & Risk Management
- Support operational compliance with applicable federal, state, provincial, and local environmental, health, and safety requirements.
- Conduct or support EHS assessments, facility visits, compliance reviews, and other field assurance activities.
- Identify significant or recurring EHS risks and work with operational leadership to establish appropriate corrective actions.
- Provide guidance on regulatory requirements and established company EHS expectations.
- Support facilities during regulatory inspections or inquiries as appropriate.
- Monitor significant compliance concerns and elevate issues based on risk and severity.
Incident Investigation & Corrective Action
- Support investigation of workplace incidents, injuries, near misses, and other significant EHS events.
- Coach operational leaders and Regional EHS Managers in effective incident investigation and root-cause analysis.
- Help identify appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
- Evaluate incident trends and recurring exposures across assigned operations.
- Monitor significant corrective actions and support operational follow-through.
- Escalate significant or systemic incident trends to the Director, EHS.
EHS Program Execution
- Support consistent implementation of established EHS programs and initiatives across assigned operations.
- Help Regional EHS Managers and operational leaders understand program requirements and expectations.
- Monitor field execution and identify implementation gaps.
- Coordinate Regional EHS Manager activities associated with department priorities and initiatives.
- Identify practical opportunities to improve field execution and provide feedback to the Director, EHS.
- Support EHS training and communication initiatives as needed.
Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Review field EHS performance, incidents, assessments, corrective actions, and other relevant indicators.
- Identify recurring or emerging issues that may require additional attention.
- Work with Regional EHS Managers and operational leaders to address performance gaps.
- Promote sharing of lessons learned and effective practices across assigned operations.
- Provide the Director, EHS with visibility into significant performance trends, field challenges, resource needs, and emerging risks.
Field Leadership & Escalation
- Serve as the first level of EHS leadership support for complex field issues involving assigned Regional EHS Managers.
- Provide guidance and coaching when issues exceed the experience or authority of a Regional EHS Manager.
- Determine when issues require additional leadership visibility or support.
- Escalate significant regulatory, compliance, operational, or systemic risks to the Director, EHS.
- Coordinate field-level response to significant EHS issues while maintaining appropriate operational ownership.
- Support the Director, EHS on field-related projects and priorities as needed.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Operations, Human Resources, Fleet, Risk, Claims, Legal, and other functions when EHS matters cross functional responsibilities.
- Help ensure responsibilities are clearly understood and appropriately assigned.
- Support coordinated resolution of field-level issues without assuming ownership of responsibilities belonging to Operations or other functions.
- Elevate matters requiring broader organizational or enterprise alignment to the Director, EHS.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health, Industrial Safety, Engineering, Risk Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 7+ years of progressive EHS experience, preferably supporting multi-site operations.
- Demonstrated experience providing EHS support within a decentralized organization.
- Previous experience supervising, leading, coaching, or mentoring EHS professionals.
- Working knowledge of applicable occupational safety, health, and environmental regulations.
- Experience with incident investigation, risk assessment, corrective actions, compliance assessments, and EHS program implementation.
- Strong leadership, communication, coaching, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Influence operational leaders without direct authority.
- Manage multiple priorities across geographically dispersed operations.
- 30% travel to include multiple overnight stays within the US, Canada, and Mexico
Preferred
- Experience within distribution, warehousing, logistics, transportation, or similar operations.
- Formal people-management experience.
- Professional certification such as CSP, ASP, CIH, CHMM, or equivalent.
- Experience supporting a large, multi-site organization.
The perks of being a Bunzl team member don’t stop at being part of a great team or being valued as our #1 asset. We offer a full range of benefits to help our employees take care of themselves and their families today, tomorrow and for the future.
- Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits effective the 1st day of the month after 30 days
- Paid Time Off - Vacation, Sick, Holidays and Personal Time
- 401K with generous company match
- Additional benefit information can be found on the Bunzl Careers home page under Benefits and Perks.
Bunzl is a global leader in the Cleaning & Hygiene, Food Processing, Grocery, Health Care, Non‑Food Retail, and Safety industries. We have grown both organically and through acquisitions to exceed $10 billion in sales. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Bunzl North America operates more than 100 warehouses and serves all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean and Mexico. With more than 10,000 team members and over 400,000 supplies, Bunzl is recognized as a leading supplier across North America - and proudly certified as a Great Place to Work®. At Bunzl, you’ll find Unlimited Potential… your career, our future.
Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.