As the VP - Global Safety, you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of the enterprise-wide safety strategy to ensure the protection of employees, contractors, and visitors across all business units. You will be accountable for driving a culture of safety excellence, ensuring regulatory compliance, mitigating operational risk, and embedding safety into the company, specifically focusing on frontline execution.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team responsible for safety performance across all business units
- Responsible for developing and executing global safety strategy in collaboration with business leaders
- Establish governance, policies, and standards to be used to drive safe behaviors and a culture of safety
- Ensure all equipment, facilities and initiatives have safety as a design element
- Ensure OSHA and global compliance
- Lead audits and investigations
- Drive culture of accountability and engagement with business leaders
- Establish KPIs and reporting for senior leaders
- Maintain safety compliance reporting across 50+ countries
- Deploy enterprise safety technology
- Partner with HR, Legal and Risk Management
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree - Safety, Environment Health & Safety or Engineering or related field required
- Masters Degree - Safety, Environment Health & Safety or MBA preferred
- Licenses/Certificates/Designations: CSP, ASP, CHMM preferred
- 15 years working in a safety leadership role
- 8 years leading a multi-site and / or global organization
- Experience presenting to the Executive Leadership and Board of Directors
- Demonstrated expertise in OSHA and global safety regulations
- Experience standing up a global health and safety program in a distribution industry preferred
- Ability to travel 25% - 50%
In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans. Additional details about benefits are available here.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Safety, Environmental Health & Safety or Engineering
- Master's Degree in Safety, Environmental Health & Safety or MBA
- CSP, ASP, CHMM certifications
- 15 years working in a safety leadership role
- 8 years leading a multi-site or global organization
- Experience presenting to Executive Leadership and Board of Directors
- Expertise in OSHA and global safety regulations
- Experience in global health and safety program in distribution industry
WESCO International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the 401(k) with company match is a relative strong point and is consistently part of the package. Retirement offerings are frequently cited as a solid element within the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests PTO policies are favorable, including self‑managed or generous banks in some roles along with paid holidays. Paid parental leave and related time‑off options add to the perceived strength of leave benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests employees have meaningful choice through medical plan options with HSA/FSA alongside ancillary programs like EAP, discounts, and supplemental coverages. The breadth of selectable add‑ons supports tailoring benefits to individual needs.
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What We Do
At Wesco, we believe life should run smoothly. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on. Harnessing 100 years of ingenuity and expertise, we increase profitability, improve productivity and mitigate risk for approximately 150,000 customers worldwide. With nearly 1.5 million products and locations in more than 50 countries, Wesco is your partner in progress. Our company’s greatest asset is our people. From our corporate and field offices to our distribution sites, Wesco employs over 20,000 professionals around the globe. We’re committed to fostering diversity and inclusion across our workforce by embracing the unique perspectives, authenticity, and individuality our team members contribute to the company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE: WCC) FORTUNE 500® company with 2022 net sales of $21.4 billion.








