EHS Director

Wagner Equipment Co. offers challenging career opportunities, extensive training and employee development along with an opportunity to grow your career and thrive under Wagner’s reputation for excellence. We offer excellent benefits and supply you with the tools you need to maximize your potential and grow within Wagner.

Benefits include:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) Plan - Up to 96 hours of PTO in your first year 8 company paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance Life and AD&D InsuranceLife and AD&D Insurance
• Retirement Plans - Life and AD&D InsuranceRetirement Plans - 401K and Roth 401K, eligible employees can receive a company contribution up to 7%
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• CEFCU - Employees have access to services include payroll deductions savings, accounts, loans, VISA card, and more.
• Additional Benefits include: Supplemental life Insurance, Critical Illness Accidental Insurance, ID WatchDog and discounted employee phone plans.

The Director of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) is a strategic leader responsible for developing, standardizing, and scaling the company’s EHS vision across a multi-site, geographically distributed operation. This role partners closely with Executive and operational leadership to drive a proactive safety culture, embed accountability, and ensure EHS programs align with organizational growth and operational excellence.

This leader moves beyond compliance administration to shape enterprise-wide safety strategy, influence leadership behaviors, and build a high-performing EHS organization capable of supporting a complex industrial environment.

Pay Rate:  $150,000.00 - $180,000.00 Annually 
Pay rate is dependent upon education & experience. 

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Develop and execute a scalable, enterprise-wide EHS strategy that supports business objectives across multiple locations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and operational leadership, providing insight, influence, and strategic guidance on safety and environmental risk.
• Lead organizational safety initiatives that elevate culture, engagement, and accountability.
• Drive cultural transformation, embedding safety as a core operating principle aligned with company values.
• Build strong credibility with operations leadership and the EHS team.
• Partner with field leadership to ensure EHS programs are practical, sustainable, and integrated into daily operations.
• Operate effectively within complex heavy equipment and warehouse environments, ensuring relevant and applicable safety practices.
• Lead, coach, and mentor the existing EHS team, focusing on capability development rather than personally owning all tactical execution.
• Evaluate current team structure and optimize staffing models to support growth, efficiency, and regional needs.
• Build a high-performing, scalable EHS organization capable of supporting future business expansion.
• Establish standardized policies, systems, and metrics that allow for consistency and scalability across all operating locations.
• Ensure alignment of EHS programs with regulatory requirements while focusing on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Implement data-driven insights to measure performance, identify trends, and drive proactive risk mitigation.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement in EHS processes, tools, and systems.
• Foster a culture of ownership and accountability, ensuring leaders at all levels take responsibility for safety outcomes.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Oversees the day-to-day activities of assigned personnel

Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Natural Science, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10 years of progressive EHS leadership experience, including multi-site responsibility within distributed operations
• In-depth knowledge of OSHA, MSHA, DOT, and EPA regulations
• Proven experience operating in warehouse, heavy equipment, diesel/mechanical, or similarly complex environments
• Demonstrated success in building and scaling EHS programs across multiple locations or regions
• Experience leading organizational change and cultural transformation initiatives related to safety
• Strong ability to communicate and influence at the executive level, including presenting to senior leadership and driving alignment
• Demonstrated capability to mentor and develop teams, building bench strength and leadership capacity within EHS
• Proven ability to shift organizations to culture-driven safety models

Competencies:

• Strategic Planning Skills
• Operational Executions Skills
• Data Entry
• Telephone Skills
• Safety Knowledge
• Reading/Writing Skills
• Reasoning Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Communication Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Product Knowledge
• Advanced communication skills for working with all levels of employees and customers, teaching, and writing reports and policies
• Must have detailed knowledge of accident prevention, public safety, accident investigation, motor vehicle accident prevention, fire prevention, workers’ compensation, and security
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Outlook
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Physical Demands:

• Standing, walking, talking, sitting, use of hands & hearing
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing but may require occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds

Work Environment:

• Noise: Moderate
• Indoors and Outdoors

Travel Requirements:

• 25- 50%

Additional Eligibility Requirements:

• Training certificates from National Safety Council or similar certifications a plus
• Valid Driver’s License
• Must pass all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings

Other Duties:

Job Offers are contingent upon all required pre-employment screenings which may include but are not limited to background checks, drug/alcohol testing, fit for duty testing, and any other job-related tests/screenings.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently.  

Wagner Equipment Co. is an EEO/AA/Veterans/Disabled employer.

Salary : $150,000 - $180,000