Senior Director, EHS & Virginia Site Operations

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Virginia Site Operations Leadership

• Provide day-to-day operational oversight and leadership for the Company’s Virginia sites, ensuring facilities operate safely, efficiently, and in alignment with established Company expectations and business priorities.
• Maintain a consistent onsite leadership presence and serve as a key point of coordination across the Virginia operations.
• Partner closely with Virginia operational leaders to identify priorities, remove barriers, address risks, and ensure timely follow-through on operational commitments.
• Establish and maintain appropriate operating rhythms, including routine leadership meetings, site walks, operational reviews, action-item tracking, and escalation processes.
• Monitor overall facility performance and identify operational issues requiring leadership attention, cross-functional support, or escalation.
• Drive accountability for identified operational priorities, ensuring clear ownership, deadlines, follow-through, and closure.
• Coordinate with Cultivation, Manufacturing, Processing, Quality, Facilities, Security, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and other functional partners to address issues affecting site performance.
• Ensure effective communication and coordination between Virginia site leadership and corporate/shared-service functions.
• Identify operational inefficiencies, recurring issues, and gaps in processes, ownership, communication, or execution and partner with appropriate leaders to implement sustainable solutions.
• Support the implementation of new processes, programs, equipment, facility improvements, and other operational initiatives within Virginia.
• Ensure Virginia leaders are appropriately planning for staffing, resources, facility needs, equipment, safety requirements, and other operational dependencies.
• Partner with leadership on Virginia's continued growth and future-state operational requirements, including preparation for increased scale and Adult Use operations.
• Support leadership development and accountability across the Virginia management team, helping establish clear expectations and consistent operating practices.
• Serve as an escalation point for significant facility or operational issues and ensure appropriate stakeholders are engaged for timely resolution.
• Provide senior leadership with visibility into material operational risks, recurring challenges, resource needs, and recommended solutions.
• Ensure operational decisions and priorities appropriately balance safety, compliance, quality, productivity, teammate experience, and business needs.
• Drive a culture of ownership, urgency, collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability throughout the Virginia operation.

Enterprise EHS Strategy & Program Leadership

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve a comprehensive enterprise EHS strategy supporting GP/cultivation, manufacturing, retail, distribution, and corporate operations.
• Establish consistent Company-wide EHS policies, standards, procedures, programs, and operating expectations while accounting for state-specific regulatory requirements and operational differences.
• Develop a multi-year EHS roadmap aligned with the Company's operational growth, risk profile, and business priorities.
• Establish clear EHS governance, accountability, and escalation protocols across the organization.
• Serve as the Company's subject-matter expert and strategic advisor to senior leadership on environmental, occupational health, safety, and workplace risk matters.
• Ensure EHS considerations are incorporated into operational planning, facility changes, equipment installations, process changes, new locations, expansions, and other business initiatives.
• Identify emerging EHS risks and proactively develop strategies to mitigate exposure before incidents occur.

EHS Team Leadership

• Provide direct leadership, development, and performance management to EHS team members supporting Company facilities.
• Establish a consistent operating model for site-level EHS resources, including expectations regarding facility presence, inspections, reporting, incident response, training, documentation, and leader partnership.
• Establish clear goals, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across the EHS team.
• Conduct regular individual and team meetings and ensure site EHS resources are proactively identifying risks rather than operating primarily in response to incidents.
• Assess EHS staffing and resource requirements as the Company grows and recommend appropriate changes to the structure.
• Develop the capabilities of EHS team members and establish succession and development plans for the function.

GP, Cultivation & Manufacturing Safety

• Provide EHS leadership across cultivation, processing, extraction, manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, distribution, and related GP operations.
• Partner with operational leaders to identify and mitigate risks associated with machinery, equipment, chemicals, hazardous materials, ergonomics, material handling, powered industrial equipment, respiratory protection, PPE, and other operational hazards.
• Establish and maintain appropriate programs for hazard communication, lockout/tagout, respiratory protection, emergency response, chemical safety, machine guarding, ergonomics, and other applicable safety requirements.
• Participate in risk assessments associated with new equipment, processes, facility modifications, expansions, and operational changes.
• Partner with Operations and Facilities to ensure identified hazards and corrective actions are prioritized and resolved.

Retail & Corporate EHS

• Develop and maintain an EHS framework appropriate for the Company's retail dispensaries and corporate offices.
• Establish standards addressing retail and office-specific risks, including slips/trips/falls, ergonomics, emergency preparedness, workplace injuries, facility hazards, and other relevant exposures.
• Partner with Retail Operations and field leadership to ensure managers understand and execute their responsibilities for maintaining safe workplaces.
• Establish appropriate emergency preparedness protocols for corporate and retail environments.
• Ensure enterprise EHS standards are appropriately tailored to the risk profile of GP, retail, and corporate environments.

Regulatory Compliance, Incident Management & Risk

• Maintain knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local EHS laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA requirements and other environmental, health, and safety obligations.
• Lead or coordinate responses to regulatory inspections, inquiries, citations, and corrective actions.
• Establish consistent processes for reporting, investigating, documenting, and escalating workplace incidents, injuries, near misses, environmental events, and significant safety concerns.
• Lead or oversee investigations of serious incidents and ensure root causes and systemic issues are identified.
• Establish corrective and preventive action processes with assigned owners, deadlines, tracking, and escalation.
• Partner with HR, Legal, Benefits/Workers' Compensation, Operations, and other stakeholders on significant safety matters.

Auditing, Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Develop an enterprise EHS audit and inspection program across GP, retail, and corporate operations.
• Establish meaningful leading and lagging EHS indicators and maintain dashboards/scorecards for leadership.
• Analyze incidents, near misses, corrective actions, inspection findings, training completion, regulatory activity, and other trends.
• Provide regular reporting to executive and operational leadership regarding EHS performance, risks, priorities, and required actions.
• Use data and trend analysis to identify systemic risks and drive continuous improvement across the organization.

Training & Safety Culture

• Develop a comprehensive EHS training strategy based on role, operational environment, regulatory requirements, and identified risk.
• Partner with Learning & Development, HR, and Operations to ensure required safety training is completed, documented, and refreshed appropriately.
• Develop manager-specific safety education focused on accountability, incident response, hazard identification, escalation, and maintaining a safe work environment.
• Establish regular safety communications, meetings, toolbox talks, alerts, lessons learned, and other awareness initiatives.
• Build a culture in which safety is understood as an operational leadership responsibility rather than solely the responsibility of EHS.

Leadership Expectations

The Director, EHS must operate as an enterprise functional leader and hands-on operational leader. Success requires the ability to move fluidly between strategic program development and day-to-day operational execution.

The individual must be able to:

• Build structure and consistency across a decentralized, multi-state organization.
• Maintain a strong and visible leadership presence within Virginia operations.
• Translate strategy into clear operating expectations and measurable actions.
• Hold leaders accountable for execution and follow-through.
• Identify operational and EHS risks before they become significant business issues.
• Coordinate effectively across multiple functions without creating unnecessary silos.
• Develop solutions rather than simply identify problems.
• Influence leaders at all levels of the organization.
• Balance safety, compliance, quality, productivity, operational needs, and teammate experience.
• Lead through growth, organizational change, and increasing operational complexity.
• Communicate effectively with frontline teammates, facility leaders, functional leaders, and executives.
• Demonstrate strong judgment, urgency, ownership, collaboration, and accountability.

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