Want to make a meaningful difference in peoples’ lives while earning a competitive salary? At Jushi Holdings Inc. ”) (CSE: JUSH) (OTCQX: JUSHF), we are shaping the future of the cannabis industry, the fastest growing jobs sector in the U.S. The Director, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) is responsible for leading the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Company’s enterprise-wide environmental, health, and safety program across all operations, including Grower-Processor (GP)/cultivation and manufacturing facilities, retail dispensaries, and corporate office locations. In addition to enterprise EHS leadership, this role will have direct responsibility for the day-to-day operational oversight of the Company’s Virginia sites, partnering closely with Virginia leadership to ensure facilities operate safely, effectively, and in accordance with Company standards and operational priorities. This includes providing onsite leadership, coordinating cross-functional facility needs, driving accountability and follow-through, escalating operational risks, and ensuring issues impacting the successful operation of the sites are addressed timely. The Director will provide direct leadership and oversight to EHS team members supporting individual facilities and will partner closely with Operations, Retail, Human Resources, Legal, Facilities, Security, and other functional leaders to ensure EHS standards are integrated into day-to-day operations and future business growth. This role requires a highly visible, hands-on leader who can build a comprehensive, data-driven EHS program at the enterprise level while simultaneously providing strong operational leadership within Virginia. The successful leader will be equally comfortable developing enterprise strategy, walking a facility floor, identifying operational risks, holding leaders accountable, and coordinating resources to ensure the Virginia sites are positioned for continued growth.
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.
KEY MEASURES OF SUCCESS
- Development and implementation of a comprehensive enterprise EHS program.
- Consistent EHS standards across GP, retail, and corporate operations.
- Effective leadership and development of facility EHS team members.
- Improved hazard identification, corrective-action closure, incident investigation, and regulatory readiness.
- Increased operational-leader ownership of safety.
- Stronger use of data and metrics to drive EHS decisions and continuous improvement.
- Effective day-to-day coordination and leadership of Virginia site operations.
- Improved accountability and follow-through across Virginia leadership.
- Timely identification and resolution of Virginia operational risks and barriers.
- Strong cross-functional coordination between Virginia and corporate/shared-service teams.
- Successful preparation of Virginia operations for continued growth and increased scale.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related field required; an equivalent combination of education and significant relevant experience may be considered.
- Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive Environmental Health & Safety experience, preferably within multi-site, manufacturing, production, distribution, retail, or other complex operational environments.
- Minimum of 3–5 years of leadership experience, including direct responsibility for managing, developing, and holding EHS professionals or other operational team members accountable.
- Demonstrated experience building, implementing, and maturing a comprehensive EHS program, including policies, standards, training, auditing, reporting, metrics, incident management, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated experience supporting multi-site operations and establishing consistent standards across geographically dispersed facilities.
- Experience partnering directly with operational leadership and providing hands-on support within active manufacturing, production, cultivation, warehouse, distribution, or similar environments.
- Experience supporting day-to-day facility operations, including cross-functional coordination, issue resolution, prioritization, leadership accountability, and operational follow-through.
- Experience working within a highly regulated environment and translating regulatory requirements into practical operating standards.
- Experience leading organizational or operational change, including implementation of new programs, processes, systems, facility expansions, or significant business growth.
Technical Knowledge & Capabilities
WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER OUR EMPLOYEES AT JUSHI
We offer benefit packages that may include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short, and Long Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, and 401(k).
BONUS DUTIES YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Jushi is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.
