National Director, Health & Safety - USA

The National Director bridges enterprise strategy with operational reality: developing digital EH&S platforms, overseeing high-severity risk mitigation, leading incident management governance, and directing cross-functional teams to achieve an industry leading operating model. Backed by leading private equity firms, GESI delivers liquid waste, industrial cleaning, and soil remediation services across North America through a vertically integrated platform of over 230 sites and a fleet of 1,800+ vehicles.

Ready to elevate your career? GESI is expanding! We are officially hunting for our next National Director, Health & Safety in USA-someone ready to bring fresh ideas and grow alongside a dynamic team.

About Us
GFL Environmental Services Inc. ("GESI") is a high-growth environmental services company recently carved out of GFL Environmental Inc. Backed by leading private equity firms, GESI delivers liquid waste, industrial cleaning, and soil remediation services across North America through a vertically integrated platform of over 230 sites and a fleet of 1,800+ vehicles. Our employees, collectively known as 'Team Green,' enjoy numerous benefits: career advancement opportunities, competitive benefits, job stability within an essential services company, and the chance to make a positive impact every day for our customers and communities, Green for Life!

The Role
The National Director, Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) - USA provides strategic, executive, and operational leadership over all EH&S programs across national operations, high-hazard facilities, field sites, and refinery operations. This role transforms regional EH&S achievements into national standards, establishing continuous improvement frameworks, driving a culture of safety excellence, and ensuring operational alignment with complex federal, provincial, and local regulatory requirements across USA and North America.

The National Director bridges enterprise strategy with operational reality: developing digital EH&S platforms, overseeing high-severity risk mitigation, leading incident management governance, and directing cross-functional teams to achieve an industry leading operating model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Formulate, govern, and continuously enhance the enterprise wide HS management system framework (KPIs, EH&SMS, Corporate Safety Standards, policies, and SOPs), establishing consistent safety standards.
• Foster a company-wide culture of safety excellence by driving executive-led safety initiatives, continuous training programs, and proactive risk mitigation strategies. Drive the standardization of safe operating practices, hazardous task controls, and engineering risk mitigations to protect personnel, assets, and operational continuity.
• Establish senior leadership oversight and executive reporting protocols for critical incidents, ensuring operational transparency, accountability, and continuous organizational learning.
• Align EH&S stewardship goals with business objectives to support overall operational sustainability, compliance, and long-term organizational success.
• Provide strategic direction and executive oversight for risk management across all operations and diverse client industrial sites
• Oversee HS onboarding, integrating acquired business units, personnel, and infrastructure into corporate EH&S management systems and safety cultures.

• Oversee comprehensive environmental compliance, facility monitoring, site remediation, and land-stewardship strategies.
• Direct the resolution of complex regulatory inquiries, permitting requirements, and third-party compliance verification systems (e.g., ISNetworld, Avetta).
• Provide senior oversight for environmental emergency responses including internal facility emergencies, and third-party technical consultants.
• Direct root-cause investigation methodologies (SCAT, RCA) for critical events, ensuring thorough analysis, systemic trend identification, and execution of corrective and preventive action (CAPA) frameworks.
• Partner closely with Human Resources on employee retention, safety leadership training, and Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) disability claims management.
• Collaborate with Fleet Compliance to ensure driver safety, National Safety Code alignment, and fleet technology integration.
• Coordinate with Risk & Insurance on certificates of insurance, asset/vehicle coverage, and enterprise risk management (ERM).
• Provide EH&S oversight and technical reviews for commercial proposals, RFPs/RFQs, and client pre-qualification submissions.
• Oversee and drive functional design, optimization, and rollout for digital management software (Enablon, SEMS, GFL Learning Hub).
• Experience with EH&S Dashboards to track real-time KPIs, audit findings, KPI logs, and critical incident trends across all business units.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:

Knowledge & Technical Skills:

• EH&S Management Systems & Governance: Expert knowledge of enterprise EH&S management system architectures (EH&SMS, GreenBook, Corporate Safety Standards) and the development of corporate policies, manuals, and standard operating procedures (