Overview:
This is a career-defining opportunity: to take a high-performing team, align it with national growth, and set the pace for the future of our Safety practice.
SevenGen is at an inflection point. We are scaling rapidly, expanding our national footprint, and broadening our safety services to meet the evolving needs of our clients. We are seeking a senior leader to head our Safety department. This position may be hired at the Director or VP level depending on experience and qualifications. For candidates joining as Director, there is a clear pathway to VP based on milestones in growth, leadership, and impact. In this position, you will not just oversee projects, you will shape the trajectory of a department positioned for accelerated growth.
At SevenGen, our purpose is clear: we are Advocates for the Future of People and the Environment. Guided by our core values of Pursuit of Excellence, Exceptional Service, and Appreciation for Community and Environment, we are building something bigger than ourselves.
We are looking for a leader who thrives at the intersection of technical excellence and strategic vision. Someone who can deliver exceptional service today while evolving the systems, processes, and talent that will fuel tomorrow. A leader who is ambitious enough to see the big picture, but grounded enough to turn data into results, coach people to success, and hold teams accountable to the highest standards.
If you are ready to take the next bold step in your career and join a company on the rise, SevenGen offers the platform and the momentum to make it happen.
What You’ll Do at SevenGen:
- Lead Projects and People: Direct enterprise-level safety programs with a focus on hazard identification, risk assessment, and continuous improvement. Oversee the development and delivery of scalable safety solutions across manufacturing and industrial environments, while coaching a high-performing team to achieve exceptional client outcomes.
- Turn Data into Action: Build and interpret internal dashboards, track KPIs, and use data to make decisions that improve client service, team performance, and profitability.
- Improve Processes: Identify gaps, streamline workflows, and implement better ways of working to elevate the department’s efficiency and impact.
- Lead and Hold Accountable: Provide clear direction and hold your team accountable to roles, responsibilities, and results, ensuring alignment with SevenGen’s Proven Process.
- Coach and Develop: Lead with candor and care by delivering feedback, holding crucial conversations, and building a culture of accountability, growth, and trust. Guide team members through their own career journeys by partnering with Talent to identify individual strengths, aspirations, and development needs, ensuring each person has a clear pathway to thrive.
- Collaborate Strategically: Partner with senior leadership and business development to envision the department’s future, build new service offerings, and align with SevenGen’s growth strategy.
- Engage Clients: Show up as a trusted advisor, communicating with clarity, building long-term relationships, and ensuring exceptional service on every project.
What You’ll Bring with You:
- Safety Expertise: 10+ years of total safety experience with a strong foundation in technical services.
- People Leadership: 2+ years managing others, including experience holding team members accountable to expectations, giving constructive feedback, and leading coaching conversations.
- Consulting Experience: 2+ years working in consulting, with proven ability to manage client relationships.
- Data-Driven Mindset: Comfort building and interpreting dashboards, using metrics to guide decisions, and holding teams accountable to results.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to balance billable work with building processes, people, and the future of the department.
- Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety (or related field);
- Certification: Board-accredited certification (CSP)
- Collaboration Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to work seamlessly with senior leaders and business development.
- Growth Orientation: Ambition, curiosity, and a desire to stretch beyond technical work into broader leadership.
You’ll Be a Great Fit If You:
- Believe accountability is a form of respect and follow through on your commitments.
- Are comfortable having candid, constructive conversations that build trust and drive growth.
- Show up for our team and clients, own your work, adapt to others’ needs to help them succeed.
- Empower clients and team members by sharing knowledge generously, educate, mentor, and offer insights that help others grow, understand, and succeed.
- Surprise and delight by doing the unasked: solve problems before they arise, add thoughtful touches to your work and interactions, and make clients and teammates feel genuinely valued.
- Embrace feedback and mistakes as tools for growth, listen openly, reflect without defensiveness, and treat every challenge as a chance to learn and improve.
- Pursue 1% growth every day, explore your world and interactions with curiosity, seek out learning beyond work, and choose to improve in leadership and technical craft.
- Advocate and recruit for excellence by contributing to a healthy team culture, speak directly, surface issues early, and bring concerns into conversations where resolution and improvement are the goal.
- Celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of our team often, both publicly and privately.
Why SevenGen?
- Competitive compensation + performance-based bonus
- Medical, dental, vision insurance for you and your family
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous PTO
- Technology stipend
- Annual personal development budget
- Clear career pathways and growth opportunities
- A culture that values authenticity, work-life balance, and meaningful contribution
It’s not just a job to us
A career at SevenGen is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to impact lives and shape the future. Our company was built on a set of values which make that possible: trust, customer success, innovation, and equality. At SevenGen, we are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diverse communities and dynamic industries we serve, where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. Our values aren’t just words on a page — we learn to live them every day, measure our success, and continuously evolve. Together, we’re on a mission to improve the state of occupational health, safety and environmental stewardship in our communities.
We recognize that professionals today have choices, and we understand the importance of those deliberations on the future – your future and our own future. That is why, at SevenGen, our employees are our most valuable asset, and the reason that we have made SevenGen a career destination.
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