Director of Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance
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Job Description
Director of Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance
Summary:
The Director of Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance is the senior leader responsible for Crystal Flash's companywide safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance strategy. The Director leads three complementary functions, establishes consistent standards, advises executive and operating leaders, and drives risk reduction across transportation, propane, refined fuels, service, bulk plants, facilities, and customer-site operations. The role has authority to stop or correct work that presents an imminent risk to employees, the public, the environment, or the company.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategy and Organizational Leadership
- Develop and execute the annual safety, environmental, and compliance plan, including priorities, resources, performance measures, and improvement targets approved by executive leadership.
- Advise the Chief Operating Officer, President and CEO, executive team, and operating leaders on material hazards, regulatory obligations, emerging risks, and practical controls.
- Build a prevention-focused culture in which leaders own safety performance and employees are expected and supported to report hazards, incidents, and near misses.
- Integrate safety and compliance expectations into operating decisions, capital projects, acquisitions, vendor relationships, and significant organizational change.
Department Leadership and Coordination
- Lead, coach, and evaluate the Regulatory Compliance Manager, Bulk Plant and Facilities Manager, and Environmental and Safety Programs Manager, with clear objectives, decision rights, service expectations, and measures of success.
- Coordinate regulatory assurance, environmental programs, training, field support, facility stewardship, and capital improvement through one department plan.
- Set priorities and allocate people, budget, outside expertise, and technology according to Crystal Flash's most significant risks and business needs.
- Resolve gaps or overlap among the three functions and ensure significant issues have one accountable owner, a defined action plan, and timely leadership visibility.
- Develop leadership depth, succession capability, and continuity for critical licenses and technical credentials.
Regulatory and Environmental Oversight
- Oversee compliance with applicable DOT, FMCSA, OSHA, MIOSHA, environmental, fire, hazardous-materials, and industry requirements.
- Hold the Regulatory Compliance Manager accountable for the regulatory calendar, required records, audits, corrective-action tracking, verification, and exception reporting.
- Hold the Environmental and Safety Programs Manager accountable for environmental program execution, assigned company licenses and credentials, technical training, field safety support, and industry engagement.
- Lead the company's response to significant inspections, inquiries, citations, and agency visits in coordination with executive leadership and legal counsel when appropriate.
- Ensure regulatory changes are evaluated and translated into timely updates to policies, training, controls, and operating procedures.
Field Risk and Facility Stewardship
- Maintain sufficient field presence to understand how work is performed, evaluate serious exposures, coach leaders, and confirm that company standards are practical and effective.
- Approve a risk-based assurance plan covering site audits, driver observations, ride-alongs, facility reviews, and operating assessments.
- Set expectations for critical controls involving driver qualification, hours of service, vehicle inspections, hazardous materials, product transfer, service work, contractors, emergency preparedness, and facility safety.
- Hold the Bulk Plant and Facilities Manager accountable for asset condition, preventive maintenance, construction, permitting support, contractor control, peak-season readiness, and capital improvement of company facilities.
- Ensure new equipment, fleet specifications, facility projects, and operating changes receive appropriate safety and environmental review before implementation.
Incident Management and Continuous Improvement
- Establish an effective escalation process for serious vehicle, employee, customer-site, product-release, facility, and environmental incidents.
- Ensure incidents and near misses are reported promptly, investigated to the appropriate depth, and addressed through verified corrective actions.
- Coordinate high-consequence decisions involving regulatory reporting, post-accident testing, evidence preservation, communications, legal counsel, and restoration of operations.
- Use incident, claim, audit, training, vehicle, and environmental data to identify trends, focus resources, and report performance to leadership.
Authority
- Access records, locations, systems, and employees reasonably necessary to evaluate risk and department performance, subject to company confidentiality and access policies.
- Require immediate protective measures when a condition presents a serious or imminent risk and direct the accountable leader to establish safe interim controls.
- Assign accountable owners, require documented corrective-action plans and completion evidence, establish deadlines, and escalate unresolved or material issues to the Chief Operating Officer.
- Direct temporary work restrictions or an operational pause within delegated authority. Emergency stop-work authority follows company policy; significant or extended operating shutdowns are coordinated with the Chief Operating Officer and affected executive leaders.
Measures of Success
- Annual targets will be established through Crystal Flash's safety and compliance scorecard. Key measures include:
- Serious incident, preventable vehicle-event, employee injury, claim, and property-loss trends.
- Regulatory and environmental performance, audit readiness, and timely permit, reporting, investigation, and corrective-action completion.
- Training and field-assurance effectiveness, leader ownership, employee reporting, facility reliability, and peak-demand readiness.
Reports to: This position reports to the Chief Operating Officer
Department: Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance
Location: Michigan with regular travel to Crystal Flash location and field operations
Status: Full time/Exempt
Supervisory Responsibilities: Regulatory Compliance Manager; Bulk Plant and Facilities Manager; Environmental and Safety Programs Manager
Working Relationships and Accountability
The Director owns companywide strategy, department leadership, priorities, resources, escalation, and executive reporting. The Regulatory Compliance Manager administers and verifies the compliance framework. The Bulk Plant and Facilities Manager owns the physical condition and improvement of bulk plants and facilities. The Environmental and Safety Programs Manager leads environmental execution, assigned licenses and credentials, technical training, field support, and industry engagement. Operating and location leaders remain accountable for safe and compliant daily execution, employee supervision, timely reporting, and completion of assigned corrective actions.
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health, engineering, risk management, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
- At least 10 years of progressive safety, environmental, transportation, energy, hazardous materials, industrial, or related operational experience, including at least five years leading people or a multi-site program.
- Demonstrated knowledge of DOT and FMCSA requirements, OSHA or state-plan occupational safety requirements, hazardous materials, and environmental compliance.
- Experience leading serious-incident response, investigations, regulatory interactions, audits, corrective-action programs, and executive-level reporting.
- Ability to work effectively in operating locations, shops, plants, vehicles, customer sites, and executive settings.
- Valid driver's license and ability to meet company driving requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified Safety Professional, Associate Safety Professional, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, or comparable professional credential.
- Experience in propane, refined fuels, petroleum distribution, trucking, service operations, bulk storage, or another highly regulated field-based business.
- Working knowledge of applicable NFPA standards, emergency response, process improvement, and safety-management systems.
- Experience supporting an employee-owned, multi-location, or seasonally intensive organization.
Leadership Competencies
- Field credibility, sound judgment, and the courage to raise difficult issues and intervene when conditions require it.
- Operational partnership that produces workable solutions without compromising legal requirements or critical controls.
- Clear communication, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to build accountability and capability in others.
Work Environment
This position works across office, vehicle, shop, bulk plant, warehouse, outdoor, and customer-site environments. Regular travel throughout Crystal Flash's operating footprint is required, including occasional early morning, evening, and overnight travel. The Director must be available outside normal business hours for significant incidents and follow required personal protective equipment and safe work practices.
Physical Requirements
The employee must be able to move safely through operating locations and uneven outdoor areas; enter and exit commercial vehicles when necessary; climb stairs and ladders; stand and walk during assessments; and use computers, phones, and safety equipment. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals.
Employment Statement
This description summarizes primary duties and may change. It does not create a contract or alter at-will employment. Crystal Flash is an equal opportunity employer.