DescriptionResponsibilities & Expectations:
The Vice President of Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) serves as the enterprise leader responsible for building and sustaining a world-class safety culture across IPS. Reporting directly to the Chief Performance Officer, this executive will lead a geographically dispersed team of site, regional, and divisional HSE professionals while ensuring IPS maintains a relentless focus on critical risk management, leadership accountability, talent development, and operational excellence - with the understanding that safety excellence and business performance are inseparable.
- Lead and continuously improve IPS's enterprise HSE strategy in support of operational excellence, growth, and business performance.
- Build a high-performing HSE leadership team.
- Provide leadership and direction to regional and divisional HSE leaders while establishing clear accountability and performance expectations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Performance Officer, Division Presidents, and Executive Leadership Team.
- Drive a proactive culture focused on critical risk management, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Lead enterprise initiatives involving electrical safety, energized work, arc flash protection, lockout/tagout, confined space entry, lifting and rigging, driving safety, contractor safety, and field service operations.
- Ensure strong governance and consistent execution of HSE standards across all divisions, service centers, and field operations.
- Develop executive-level reporting and dashboards that provide meaningful visibility into both leading indicators (observations, near-miss rates, safety conversation frequency, audit closure) and lagging indicators, emerging risks, and organizational capability.
- Lead incident investigations, root cause analyses, corrective action programs, and enterprise-wide learning initiatives.
- Partner with Operations, HR, Legal, Risk Management, and CIPS leaders to strengthen safety performance and operational discipline.
- Embed IPS safety culture as a foundational integration priority in acquired businesses - not a post-close afterthought - ensuring standards and accountability are established.
- Set non-negotiable safety performance standards and hold leaders at every level accountable with the same rigor applied to financial and operational results; escalate concerns and stop work when necessary - regardless of organizational level.
- Represent IPS with customers, regulators, industry organizations, and external stakeholders as a senior executive leader .
- Build safety leadership capability in operational leaders - Division Presidents, Service Center GMs, and field supervisors - ensuring every leader is equipped and expected to drive safety performance, not just the HSE team.
- Leverage technology and predictive analytics to drive proactive risk identification, digital safety workflows, and real-time performance visibility across the enterprise.
What Success Looks Like:- IPS demonstrates measurable year-over-year improvement in both leading and lagging safety performance indicators, with zero critical incidents as the standard, while strengthening operational execution and uptime.
- The HSE organization is viewed as a strategic business partner and trusted advisor to operations.
- Enterprise safety standards are consistently executed across all business units and acquired companies.
- Safety leadership is scalable and capable of supporting significant organizational growth and future ownership transitions.
- Executive leadership, employees, customers, and investors view IPS as an industry leader in safety performance and risk management.
- A robust leading indicator program - behavioral observations, near-miss reporting, safety conversation frequency, and audit closure rates - is active across all divisions and demonstrably driving proactive risk reduction.
- Safety metrics are embedded in operational leader scorecards and performance evaluations enterprise-wide, reinforcing safety as a core leadership competency alongside financial and operational results.
Qualifications and Competencies:
- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety , Engineering, Environmental Science, Industrial Management, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive HSE leadership experience within industrial, manufacturing, power systems, utility, energy, field service, or related environments.
- Demonstrated success leading multi-site HSE organizations across geographically dispersed operations.
- Experience scaling organizations through growth, acquisitions, integrations, and organizational transformation.
- Strong understanding of industrial risk management involving electrical systems, energized work, rotating equipment, field service operations, heavy lifting, and contractor management.
- Proven ability to build safety leadership capability in both HSE professionals and operational leaders, develop successors, and create sustainable talent pipelines throughout the organization.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through leaders rather than direct ownership of day-to-day operations.
- Excellent communication, strategic thinking, change management , and organizational development skills.
- Strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, and other relevant regulatory requirements.
- Professional certifications such as CSP, CIH, CUSP, CHMM, or equivalent strongly preferred.
- Ability to travel 40-60% throughout North America and the UK to support service centers, field operations, customer sites, acquisition integrations, leadership development, and safety initiatives.
You'll thrive at IPS if you...
• Lead with integrity and prioritize safety. You demonstrate high standards and commit to a safe, ethical workplace.
• Value teamwork and accountability. You work well with others, take responsibility, serve others, and deliver on your commitments.
• Focus on the customer. You are dedicated to providing an unmatched customer experience and exceeding expectations.
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit. You're proactive, innovative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Communicate effectively and with purpose. You keep everyone informed with clear, concise communication.
• Stay curious and love to learn. You continuously seek new knowledge and grow personally and professionally.
Benefits:
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401k Employer Match
- Bonus Incentives
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Medical, Dental and Vision plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- And more!
