Sr. EHS Manager

The Great Yellow Brick Company; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurance

Wellbeing programs

Colleague discount

Bonus

Hybrid Working

Job summary

LEGO Group in Virginia seeks a Senior EHS Manager to lead environmental, health, and safety strategy for a growing manufacturing operation. You will embed EHS into design, build, commissioning, and operations, partnering with site leadership and cross‑functional teams to enable safe growth.

With 10+ years in EHS and proven project leadership, you’ll establish scalable systems, advance Human Performance, and drive proactive risk management across major capital projects and day‑to‑day work.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of EHS experience in manufacturing or similarly complex operations.
• Proven leadership of EHS teams and strategy development.
• Experience driving large-scale capital projects and startups.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site's EHS strategy and provide executive-level guidance.
• Develop multi-year EHS roadmaps aligned to fast-growing operations.
• Embed safety into equipment, processes, and facility development.
• Coach and empower the EHS team; promote Human Performance.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and project teams across the lifecycle.

Skills

EHS leadership

Project management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Human Performance

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Environmental Science / OH&S / Engineering

Job description

Job Description Imagine shaping the Environmental, Health, and Safety strategy for a growing manufacturing operation where safety, operational excellence, and people are at the center of every decision. As our Senior EHS Manager, you'll provide strategic leadership while helping build the systems, capabilities, and culture needed to safely scale a complex manufacturing environment.

About the Role

As our Senior EHS Manager, you'll proactively lead the development and execution of our Environmental, Health, and Safety strategy, partnering closely with site leadership, employees, project teams, contractors, and regional stakeholders. This role goes beyond regulatory compliance. You'll help embed EHS principles into the way we design, build, commission, and operate our facility. Bringing a strong project management background and a Human Performance mindset, you'll anticipate risk, strengthen organizational learning, and ensure EHS considerations are incorporated into major projects and operational decisions. You'll lead at every level of the organization, from advising senior leaders to engaging directly with the workforce, while creating an environment where collaboration, continuous improvement, learning, and shared ownership for safety can thrive.

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior EHS leader for the site, advising site and regional leadership on strategic EHS priorities, risk, and organizational readiness.
• Develop and execute a multi-year EHS roadmap that supports safe growth, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Lead EHS integration across facility ramp-ups, expansions, capital projects, equipment installations, construction, commissioning, and transition into steady-state operations.
• Apply strong project management disciplines to establish priorities, manage risks, coordinate stakeholders, and drive complex EHS initiatives from planning through execution.
• Embed safety considerations into equipment, process, and facility development to proactively identify and reduce risk.
• Lead, develop, and empower a high-performing EHS organization with strong technical capability and accountability.
• Champion Human Performance principles that promote learning, strengthen systems, and help teams identify and manage operational risk.
• Partner with employees, leaders, contractors, vendors, engineering teams, operations, and other functions to integrate EHS into everyday decision-making.
• Establish proactive and predictive approaches to safety performance, using data and insight to identify emerging risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Represent EHS in leadership forums and strategic project reviews, providing clear recommendations and influencing decisions at all levels of the organization.

Tasks

• Lead EHS workstreams for major capital projects, facility expansion, and equipment installations.
• Build project plans, establish milestones, identify risks and dependencies, and drive accountability for critical EHS deliverables.
• Coach leaders and teams on Human Performance, proactive risk management, and effective learning from events and operational experience.
• Partner with engineering and project teams to review equipment and process designs and ensure EHS requirements are considered throughout project development and implementation.
• Develop and maintain effective contractor and vendor EHS strategies, expectations, and performance standards.
• Use leading and lagging indicators, risk assessments, and operational insights to identify trends and strengthen preventive actions.
• Build strong relationships across the site, creating alignment between EHS, operations, engineering, maintenance, people functions, and leadership.
• Engage directly with employees to understand operational realities, identify improvement opportunities, and strengthen the connection between EHS strategy and day-to-day work.
• Develop the capability of the EHS team through coaching, succession planning, performance management, and technical development.
• Communicate complex EHS risks and priorities clearly to both frontline employees and senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive Environmental, Health, and Safety experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineering, or similarly complex operational environments.
• Significant leadership experience within EHS, including responsibility for leading and developing teams.
• Proven experience supporting or leading large-scale facility start-ups, expansions, capital projects, commissioning activities, or significant operational transformations.
• Demonstrated project management experience, with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Strong understanding of EHS management principles and their application within complex manufacturing or industrial operations.
• Experience applying Human Performance principles or similar learning-focused safety approaches within an operational environment.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead at all levels, including senior leadership, functional leaders, project teams, and frontline employees.
• Highly collaborative leadership style with the ability to build trust, create alignment, and influence outcomes without relying solely on positional authority.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated growth mindset with a commitment to learning, continuous improvement, and developing both individual and organizational capability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional EHS certification such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or comparable credential is desired.
• Formal project management education, certification, or demonstrated experience leading complex capital or operational projects.
• Experience implementing Human Performance or learning-focused safety methodologies.
• Experience supporting greenfield manufacturing operations, major facility expansions, or large-scale operational ramp-ups.
• Experience working within highly automated, advanced manufacturing, consumer products, or other complex industrial environments.
• Experience working across regional or global organizations and collaborating with geographically dispersed stakeholders.
• Experience developing proactive EHS analytics, risk indicators, or data-driven approaches to risk prevention.

What You'll Build

You’ll help build an EHS organization and culture designed for long‑term growth. You’ll establish scalable systems, strengthen Human Performance capabilities, develop EHS talent, and integrate risk management into projects and operational decisions. Through strong project leadership and collaboration, you’ll help move the organization beyond reactive compliance toward proactive risk management, learning, and continuous improvement.

Life on the Team

You’ll work alongside leaders, engineers, project teams, operations, maintenance, contractors, and employees across the organization. Success in this environment depends on relationships as much as technical expertise. You’ll need to be comfortable leading up, leading across, and leading with the broader employee population, adjusting your approach based on the audience while maintaining clear expectations and a consistent commitment to EHS. This is an environment for a leader who is curious, collaborative, willing to challenge constructively, and equally willing to listen and learn.

What Success Looks Like

Success means creating an EHS organization that is trusted, proactive, and deeply connected to the operation. You’ll establish strong EHS foundations for continued growth, successfully integrate safety into major projects and facility development, strengthen Human Performance capabilities, and build productive partnerships across the organization. You’ll develop a team capable of anticipating risk and helping the business make informed decisions while maintaining a strong focus on people, learning, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Additional Details

Some international travel will be required. Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $142,681.00 - $214,021.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

What in it for you?

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based.
• Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.
• Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Company Culture

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong. The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow." The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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