Lead the Future of Workplace Safety, Risk Management, and Sustainable Performance
You've built a career helping organizations navigate complex health and safety challenges. Now, take the next step into a leadership role where you'll influence strategy, guide major client programs, and help shape safer, more sustainable operations on a global scale. As a Technical Consulting Director, Safety based in Overland Park, Kansas, you'll partner with some of the world's leading organizations to strengthen health and safety performance, embed compliance into business operations, and integrate ESG priorities into long-term business strategies. This is an opportunity to combine technical expertise, client leadership, and team development while creating meaningful impact across industries.
Why This Role Matters?Health, safety, and sustainability have become critical business priorities for organizations operating in an increasingly complex regulatory and operational environment. In this role, you'll help clients proactively manage risk, strengthen compliance, improve operational performance, and advance their sustainability objectives. Your expertise will directly support safer workplaces, more resilient business operations, and stronger long-term outcomes for clients around the world.
What Your Impact Is:- Shape and deliver innovative Health & Safety (H&S) compliance and management system solutions across a variety of industries.
- Lead large, complex client engagements and influence senior stakeholders and key decision-makers.
- Integrate ESG drivers into operational risk, compliance, and assurance frameworks.
- Drive continuous improvement in safety performance while helping clients achieve sustainability goals.
- Mentor, coach, and develop the next generation of consultants and technical leaders.
- Expand and strengthen client relationships through trusted advisory partnerships.
- Relevant academic background in science, engineering, safety, environmental management, or related degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years (20+ years preferred) of progressive H&S and team supervisory experience in EHS corporate environments.
- Strong understanding of regulations with proven experience in regulatory compliance strategy and execution.
- Demonstrated expertise in health & safety management systems, auditing, and operational risk solutions.
- Experience developing and delivering H&S programs that improve performance and reduce risk.
- Ability to build trusted client relationships and understand complex business needs.
- Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills.
- Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.
- Experience integrating ESG drivers into compliance and operational frameworks.
- Established industry relationships and client network.
- Track record of combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Passion for innovation in health & safety and sustainability solutions.
- Build and grow health & safety client relationships, delivering high-value, world-class services.
- Develop and deploy H&S compliance solutions and management systems.
- Design and lead H&S audit programs.
- Integrate ESG considerations into H&S compliance, audits, and management systems.
- Collaborate with clients to understand needs and co-create tailored, forward-thinking solutions.
- Mentor and guide a high-performing consulting team.
- Provide strategic leadership and technical expertise to help clients address evolving regulatory and operational challenges.
- Support business growth through client engagement, trusted advisory services, and solution development.
Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.
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ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Skills Required
- Relevant academic background in science, engineering, safety, environmental management, or related degree or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of progressive H&S and team supervisory experience in EHS corporate environments (20+ years preferred).
- Strong understanding of regulations with proven experience in regulatory compliance strategy and execution.
- Demonstrated expertise in health & safety management systems, auditing, and operational risk solutions.
- Experience developing and delivering H&S programs that improve performance and reduce risk.
- Ability to build trusted client relationships and understand complex business needs.
- Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills.
- Valid driver’s license and/or ability to operate a company vehicle; frequent travel to client locations.
- Experience integrating ESG drivers into compliance and operational frameworks.
- Established industry relationships and client network.
- Track record of combining strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Passion for innovation in health & safety and sustainability solutions.
What We Do
Sustainability is our business. As the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, deploying a unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. This approach helps clients to accelerate the integration of sustainability at every level of their business. With more than 50 years of experience, ERM’s diverse team of 8000+ experts in 40 countries and territories helps clients create innovative solutions to their sustainability challenges, unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations
