Regional Environmental, Health & Safety Manager
Hybrid (New Jersey / Kansas City / Oklahoma / Minneapolis area)$107k - $134kPosted 5d ago
About the role
EHS leadership role responsible for setting regional EHS strategy, building a high-performing team, and ensuring safe, compliant, and sustainable operations across Nebius in the Eastern & Central time zones, with flexible locations near NJ, Kansas City, Oklahoma or Minneapolis.
Responsibilities
- Set and own the regional EHS plan, turning policy and legislation into clear priorities and controls for your sites.
- Translate the global EHS strategy into everyday practice across your region, ensuring teams are supported with the toolkit to advance site EHS performance.
- Lead, manage and develop local teams — setting objectives, building capability, and owning outcomes.
- Act as the senior EHS voice with regional and site leadership — advising on risk and holding the business to account.
- Own regional governance and assurance — audits, inspections, and the quality of your team's risk assessments and controls.
- Take personal command of major incidents and crises — leading investigations, building a learning culture, and reporting to executive level with composure under pressure.
- Set the standard for construction, commissioning, operations and other high-risk activity, equipping specialists to manage risk on the ground.
- Own the regional EHS performance narrative — turning data into insight that drives decisions and accountable action plans.
- Review EHS data and performance metrics regularly, acting on trends and insights to drive continuous improvement across the region.
- Support the wider environmental and sustainability agenda, partnering with teams to embed it across your region.
- Represent Nebius with regulators, industry bodies and partners, protecting its credibility on EHS.
- Champion Nebius's culture and values, embedding EHS as core to how the business operates.
Qualifications
- NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent), Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, or related field, plus 6+ years' Environmental, Health & Safety experience, including experience leading or managing a team.
- Deep working knowledge of country and regional legislation, with a track record of shaping policy and standards, not just applying them.
- A genuine subject-matter expert — able to go deep on technical detail when needed, while spending most of your time enabling others to deliver.
- Proven experience supporting incident response and investigations, including in high-pressure, high-consequence situations, with the composure to make sound decisions under stress.
- A track record of influencing senior stakeholders and holding them to account.
- Experience coaching and developing teams and capability.
- Strong commercial and organisational judgement — able to balance risk, cost and pace.
- Excellent communication skills, with the gravitas to advise, challenge constructively, and represent EHS externally.
- A continuous-improvement mindset and the ambition to build a function, not just run a programme.
Skills
Required:EHS leadershipRegulatory knowledgeIncident investigation
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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