Senior Director I, Environmental, Health & Safety

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Are you an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) professional looking for an opportunity of a lifetime?  Ready to leave your “safety mark” at the world’s largest retailer?  We would love to hear from you.

At Walmart, we have always believed that our Associates’ life and health are pricelessly valuable.  Walmart’s Supply Chain is in the process of transforming our Environmental, Health and Safety program, and we are building our organization to ensure we reach our goal of a Zero Injury workplace.  We are looking for individuals who:

• Are very passionate about safety!
• Have the experience and skillset to identify and reduce workplace hazards.
• Will ensure regulatory compliance to EHS standards.
• Model and build the principles, mindsets and behaviors that support our vision to make Walmart’s Supply Chain a competitive advantage, while ensuring our associates’ and private fleet drivers are able to return home to their loved ones safely each day. 

As a Senior Director I, EHS, you are an equal member of the Operations Senior Leadership Team in a significantly growing and evolving omni-channel supply chain that will work hand-in-hand horizontally with the leadership team to drive the “Pursuit of Perfection of Safety, Quality, Service and Cost.”

You will be responsible for developing, communicating, implementing, and executing the overall EHS strategy for one of Walmart’s Supply Chain networks (Grocery, Ambient, eCommerce, Transportation).  You will report to the Walmart Supply Chain Vice President of EHS and will manage a team of up to 5 Divisional EHS Managers responsible for approximately 50 Distribution/Fulfillment facilities. 

You will use your EHS subject matter expertise, leadership skills and project management experience to drive continual EHS improvement within your Supply Chain network.  You will quickly identify top talent and engage, enable and empower them to identify top losses and risks and implement changes to mitigate them. 

As the functional leader you must continually evaluate and build your network’s EHS team, providing coaching and direction, as necessary, to ensure key objectives are met. As the Senior Director I, EHS , you understand that EHS is a support function that assists and enables our customer, Supply Chain Operations, to carry out safe operations on a day-to-day basis.  You will work closely with your operations stakeholders, to understand their needs and deliver impactful plans, programs, projects, and processes to ensure they can meet their EHS goals.

Our ideal candidate has:

• EHS Compliance and regulatory expertise.  You have strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA and other industry EHS standards and can interpret how these standards relate to specific business situations.  You have demonstrated the ability to professionally interact with regulatory officials. You recognize that regulatory compliance is non-negotiable and have demonstrated the ability to properly maintain regulatory compliance within your role’s responsibility.
• Incident investigation and prevention process experience.  You have demonstrated ability to uncover true root causes of incidents through a prescribed Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis process such as Why-Why, 5Y, or other similar methodology.  You have used DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) or other continuous improvement process to implement corrective and preventive actions and quantified these improvements through Hazard Risk Assessments. 
• EHS scientific and technical knowledge and/or experience (i.e. ergonomics, industrial hygiene, machine safeguarding, etc.). You have employed your technical knowledge to identify and address workplace risks.   You stay current on state-of-the-art EHS technologies and methodologies through established relationships with key vendors, industry professional organizations, etc.   You find functional safety solutions that enable optimal operational efficiency. 
• Risk assessment and mitigation strategies and execution (demonstrated project management) to include site security risks. You have practice using various industry accepted qualitative and qualitative EHS risk assessment methods such as Job Hazard Analysis, Job Safety Analysis, Ergonomic Assessments, Job Demand Analysis, FMEA, Hazard Risk Assessment, etc.  You have demonstrated the ability to identify and execute risk mitigation strategies using cross-functional project teams.  You have experience managing site security risks and understand and have implemented key strategies to prevent security and loss related incidents. 
• Ability to manage teams; influence and communicate effectively with key stakeholders.

You realize you are only as strong as your team.  You effectively manage team performance and continuously push your team to improve and grow.  As the leader of an operational support function you recognize the importance of and have demonstrated your ability to effectively communicate and influence your key stakeholders.  You must be able to effectively form and communicate strong business cases to support EHS initiatives to garner support.  You must be comfortable having courageous conversations when necessary to ensure that the safety mission is realized. 

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Safety Management; Industrial Hygiene; Environmental Science, Chemical/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 6 years' experience in the field of Environmental, Health and Safety within Supply Chain, Retail, Manufacturing, Engineering, or related field.
Option 2: 8 years' experience in the field of Environmental, Health and Safety within Supply Chain, Retail, Manufacturing, Engineering, or related field.

4 years' experience in Continuous Improvement methodologies (for example Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), World Class Manufacturing (WCM) , Lean Six Sigma) within Supply Chain or manufacturing environments.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

1 or More Degreed Certifications (Associate Safety Professional; Certified Safety Professional; Certified Industrial Hygienist; Graduate Safety Practitioner) or Non-degreed certifications (Safety Management Specialist; Occupational Hygiene and Safety Technician; Safety Trained Supervisor; North American Transportation Management Institute Certified Director of Safety; North American Transportation Management Institute Certified safety Supervisor; Safety Management Specialist; Certified Safety Manager; Safety Director; Licensed Safety Professional; Certified Safety and Health Manager; Construction Health and Safety Technician), Microsoft Office Suite; SharePoint and OneDrive

Primary Location...

601 N WALTON BLVD, BENTONVILLE, AR 72716, United States of America