HSE Center of Excellence Manager

Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital. Our long-life balanced portfolio combines stable cash flows from low-decline production with a deep high-quality development inventory.

Crescent is a top three producer (by gross operated production) in the Eagle Ford basin. Crescents leadership is an experienced team of investment financial and industry professionals that combines proven investment and operating expertise. For more than a decade Crescent and our predecessors have executed on a consistent strategy focused on cash flow risk management and returns.Through disciplined and accretive investments we have successfully tripled the size of our company since going public in December 2021 while maintaining a strong balance sheet.

The HSE Center of Excellence (COE) Manager is responsible for developing enhancing implementing and sustaining enterprise-wide Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) systems programs standards and governance processes across a multi-basin asset base. This role serves as the steward of the companys HSE/Operations Management System ensuring consistent integration of aspects such as safety risk management environmental stewardship design & construction reliability & maintenance and execution discipline into how the business operates every day.

The position partners closely with Operations Wells Engineering Maintenance Facilities Environmental and Corporate leadership teams to strengthen operational risk management and drive continuous improvement in HSE performance. A key focus of this role is the prevention of life-altering injuries significant process safety events and fatalities through standardized systems data-driven insights governance and operational learning.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & HSE Systems Governance

• Lead the development implementation and continuous improvement of enterprise HSE systems standards and management processes.

• Serve as the primary steward of the companys HSE/Operations Management System ensuring alignment across operational functions and business units.

• Establish and maintain governance frameworks that drive accountability standardization and operational discipline across the organization.

• Partner with Operations and functional leadership teams to integrate HSE expectations into daily business execution and decision-making.

• Lead initiatives focused on the prevention of serious injuries fatalities and significant process safety events.

Operational Risk Management & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain standardized risk management processes including hazard identification risk assessment barrier management and mitigation planning.

• Utilize audits assessments and operational reviews to identify system gaps emerging risks and improvement opportunities.

• Drive enterprise-wide corrective action management and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Support incident investigations and root cause analysis processes ensuring organizational learning and sustainable corrective actions.

• Promote consistency and scalability of HSE programs and practices across all operational areas.

Data Analytics & Performance Visibility

• Leverage HSE data systems dashboards and analytics to provide visibility into operational performance trends and emerging risks.

• Develop and maintain leading and lagging performance indicators that support proactive risk management and operational decision-making.

• Partner with business stakeholders to improve data quality reporting consistency and actionable insights.

• Benchmark performance internally and externally to identify opportunities to strengthen HSE maturity and effectiveness.

Regulatory Compliance & Standards Management

• Ensure enterprise HSE systems and programs align with applicable regulatory requirements industry standards and company expectations.

• Support development and maintenance of HSE policies standards procedures and guidance documents.

• Monitor regulatory and industry developments to proactively identify impacts and required changes to company programs.

• Collaborate with field HSE teams and operational leadership to support consistent implementation and compliance execution.

Culture Capability & Organizational Support

• Reinforce a strong proactive and risk-based safety culture aligned with company values.

• Support development and delivery of HSE training competency and leadership development programs.

• Mentor and support HSE personnel and operational leaders to strengthen organizational capability and ownership of HSE performance.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and sharing of operational learnings and best practices across the organization.

Emergency Preparedness & Operational Resilience

• Support enterprise emergency response preparedness crisis management processes and business continuity initiatives.

• Participate in incident response activities and post-incident learning reviews as needed.

• Ensure operational learnings are incorporated into systems standards and governance processes.

Education / Experience:

• 10 years of HSE experience in upstream oil and gas with broad exposure across operations wells facilities and operational risk management.

• Bachelors degree in Occupational Safety Environmental Science Engineering or related field preferred.

• Experience supporting multi-site or multi-basin operations is preferred.

• Demonstrated experience developing implementing and advancing enterprise HSE/Operations Management Systems.

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving organizational change in complex operational environments.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong working knowledge of HSE/Operations Management Systems with demonstrated experience implementing executing and advancing system maturity.

• Proven ability to design implement and continuously improve scalable enterprise-wide HSE programs and governance processes.

• Strong understanding of operational risk management principles including hazard identification risk assessment barrier management and process safety.

• Expertise leveraging data analytics dashboards and leading indicators to drive proactive risk management and performance improvement.

• Strong working knowledge of regulatory frameworks including OSHA EPA DOT and applicable state agencies (e.g. Texas Railroad Commission Texas Commission on Environmental Quality).

• Strong auditing assessment and governance experience with the ability to identify gaps and drive sustainable corrective actions.

• Excellent communication facilitation and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Ability to influence and drive alignment across operational and corporate teams without direct authority.

• Strong incident investigation and root cause analysis capability.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive behavioral and cultural change across a distributed organization.

• Strategic thinker with a continuous improvement mindset and strong operational awareness.

Crescent Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion gender/pregnancy gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other legally protected status. Crescent Energy is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you require accommodation to complete the application process please let us know by contacting .