Open incidents sit without root cause or closure — exactly what regulators and attorneys look for later.
Due dates slip quietly. The backlog becomes the culture.
Permits, recordkeeping, and training currency lapse — and the audit arrives anyway.
Site safety staff work hard on the wrong priorities without senior air cover.
Your best safety people read an empty seat as a signal.
Every unattended month lands on the COO’s desk, not HR’s.
Rapid assessment against our EHS Maturity Ladder, then triage of everything with a legal deadline attached — permits, recordkeeping, training currency, open agency items. A standing cadence with plant leadership goes in immediately.
The incident and corrective-action backlog gets worked down — visibly — with monthly leadership reporting from the first month. Engagement is front-loaded and tapers as the function stabilizes. When you’re ready to hire, we scope the role, help you interview, and hand over a documented operating system.
Mid-size manufacturers and scaling hardware companies whose EHS director, safety director, or EHS manager just left — or is about to.
Every month the seat stays empty, corrective actions drift and compliance gaps compound — and that risk lands on the COO’s desk, not HR’s.
This is interim leadership, not staff augmentation and not consulting. CSP and CHMM-credentialed, with 22+ years from the plant floor to global manufacturing programs. We run the function like the executive you lost — owning judgment and outcomes, not billing hours. And we are not a threat to your next EHS hire: we are the reason they succeed.
Stabilization typically begins within days of a scoping call: legal-deadline triage and a leadership cadence come first, with the full assessment completed in the first weeks.
No. Consultants hand you recommendations. Interim leadership runs the function — we attend your meetings, direct the work, and own outcomes until the seat is filled.
A flat monthly retainer scoped to what the function needs — no hourly billing. Compare it to a fully loaded director salary plus search fees plus the cost of months of drift.
Both. Presence is front-loaded on-site and tapers to a sustaining cadence as the function stabilizes.
It’s the ideal time. We stabilize while you search, help you scope and interview, and hand over cleanly when your director starts.
Mid-size manufacturers and scaling hardware companies — single site or multi-site. If you had, or need, a dedicated EHS leader, you’re in range.
A scoping call this week means stabilization starts next week.
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