Vice President Environmental Health & Safety

Beacon Mobility Corp.

Location: Remote - in Eastern or Central time zone

Travel: 50% - as required to support the business
Reports to: Chief Safety Officer
Beacon Mobility is currently seeking a people focused safety professional with a diverse background and successful track record in driving sustained injury and risk reduction. The right candidate for the Vice President of Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) will drive the execution of the organizations enterprise strategy across transportation operations. This leader will support and enhance a culture where safety is the outcome of demonstrating Beacon Mobilitys core values We Care We Do the Right Thing We Collaborate and. yes We Have Fun!

The Vice President will establish and leverage strong relationships with Operations Fleet Maintenance Human Resources Risk Management Legal and senior leadership to reduce incidents strengthen visibility mitigate risk and improve employee engagement across a geographically dispersed workforce.

This role serves as the senior subject matter expert for occupational safety driver safety crisis response and regulatory affairs while advancing an engaged data-driven safety culture focused on creating the best rider experience.

Leadership Philosophy

Creating the best rider experience by leveraging people focused technology. The Vice President will use data artificial intelligence telematics and modern safety tools to enhance human judgment strengthen prevention in support of a caring reliable and connected transportation experience.

Strategic Leadership

• Execute and improve an enterprise EHS strategy aligned with business priorities growth and operational goals.

• Leverage a team of directors to drive clarity and alignment on safety expectations scalable processes and continual improvement conversations.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to operations leadership and the executive team on safety health and risk.

Safety Management & Risk Reduction

• Partner with safety operations and people team leaders to achieve measurable injury improvements.

• Drive measurable reductions in vehicle incidents and workers compensation claims.

• Leverage analysis models to drive corrective action and verification of sustained improvements.

Environmental Compliance & Sustainability

• Support compliance with applicable federal state and local environmental requirements.

• Oversee programs related to industry relevant OSHA regulations and injury risks.

• Partner with Fleet Facilities and Operations on electrification emissions reduction and environmentally responsible operating practices.

Incident Response & Crisis Management

• Serve as the lead for serious collisions injuries environmental events and other significant incidents.

• Ensure timely escalation investigation reporting communication and corrective action.

• Partner with Legal Risk People Facilities Fleet and Operations during major events.

• Maintain emergency preparedness response protocols and business continuity coordination.

Training & Safety Culture

• Support effective safety onboarding required certifications recurrent training and field coaching.

• Promote employee engagement behavioral safety practices recognition and shared accountability.

• Equip leaders to communicate safety expectations clearly and reinforce them consistently.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in occupational safety environmental management engineering industrial hygiene risk management business administration or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

• 12 or more years of progressive EHS safety risk or operational leadership experience including senior leadership responsibility in a complex multi-site organization.

• Proven success leading safety transformation regulatory compliance incident reduction and culture change across geographically dispersed operations.

• Strong working knowledge of transportation safety occupational safety environmental compliance fleet risk and crisis management.

• Executive communication skills with the ability to influence operators functional leaders senior executives regulators and external partners.

Preferred Credentials

• Masters degree in a relevant discipline.

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or comparable credential.

• OSHA 30-hour General Industry training and advanced incident investigation training.

Core Competencies

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Regulatory compliance

Environmental stewardship

Risk reduction

Crisis leadership

Data-driven decision making

Safety culture development

Change management

Operational partnership

Continuous improvement

Executive communication

Measures of Success

• Reduced vehicle incidents and severity

• Reduced employee injuries and workers compensation cost

• Strong regulatory audit and corrective action performance

• Improved employee engagement and leader accountability for safety

• Effective executive and board visibility into EHS performance

Salary Range: $200000 - $225000 base salary plus 25% bonus

Beacon Mobility is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color sex religion sexual orientation national origin disability genetic information pregnancy or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal state or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization including hiring recruiting promotion termination layoff recall leave of absence compensation benefits training and apprenticeship. Beacon Mobility makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications merit and business needs at the time.

Beacon Mobility is a growing family of companies committed to serving the diverse needs of our customers. Experienced compassionate and inspired we take pride in our ability to create customized mobility-based solutions that empower people to get where they need to go. Our purpose is simple - MOBILITY WITHOUT LIMITS: Transporting people to live learn and achieve. We are dedicated to providing those we serve with the opportunities resources and support to confidently move ahead. We support safe compassionate and inclusive environments that provide our communities with the mobility solutions they need to flourish and succeed. Backed by nearly 70 years of experience Beacon Mobility operations can be found in Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Illinois and Minnesota providing support to over 10000 employees in over 1300 communities through the delivery of Paratransit and School Bus services leveraging a fleet of over 6500 vehicles.