A Fractional EHS Director gives you a senior, credentialed head of EHS: strategy, multi-site standardization, environmental compliance, risk management, and a culture that closes action items — at a fraction of the cost of hiring one.
Coordinators and managers run programs at one site. A Director builds and runs the function — across all of them.
One compliance calendar, one scorecard, one action board across every location — inherited practices replaced with a system your ops team can run.
An annual plan tied to your risk profile and capital plan — not a binder of policies, a sequence of what gets fixed and when.
Every gap scored by likelihood and severity, tied to the governing standard, and worked in priority order — effort flows to your highest-risk sites first.
A fixed monthly operating rhythm where action items get owners, dates, and evidence-verified closure. Stalled lists start moving.
EMR trajectory, Total Cost of Risk, and program ROI in P&L language — the safety story your CFO, carrier, and investors actually use.
EHS and environmental diligence on targets before close, and a 90-day integration sprint that lands new sites on the same system.
Most safety hires stop at the S. Your Director owns the environmental obligations that carry some of the largest penalties in industrial operations — kept current on one compliance calendar, per site.
Minor-source and Title V applicability, permit conditions, emissions tracking, and renewal deadlines managed per site.
Generator status determination, accumulation and labeling rules, manifests, training, and biennial/annual reporting.
Applicability review, plan development and updates, and the inspections that keep the plan more than paper.
Industrial stormwater permit coverage, SWPPP upkeep, sampling schedules, and benchmark responses.
Chemical inventory thresholds, annual Tier II submissions, and coordination with local emergency planners.
Environmental liabilities surfaced in diligence — before they’re your citations.
Everything you’d expect from senior safety leadership is in scope: OSHA written programs built for your operation (guarding, LOTO, HazCom, PPE, PIT, hearing conservation, confined space and the rest, in risk order), OSHA 300/300A recordkeeping and recordability calls, incident investigation, training matrix and delivery, site inspections prioritized by risk, and alignment to ISO 45001 where a management-system standard fits your customers or your exit story.
The F-EHS Operating System™
See it. Set it. Run it. Raise it.
Every engagement runs on the same documented system — assessed on your floor, built into your calendar, and tracked to evidence-verified closure. Not a report that gets filed.
Each tier includes everything in the tiers below it — Director builds on the full Manager and Specialist scope.
A full-time hire with this capability runs $160K–$220K in salary before benefits, recruiting, ramp-up, and turnover. Run your own numbers in the cost estimator →
It starts with a conversation and a light gap assessment — you’ll know your top risks and what fixing them takes, whether or not we work together.
Sets the strategy, owns the compliance calendar, runs the audit and incident-review cadence, reports EHS to leadership in business terms, and makes the judgment calls a plant manager should not have to make. What it is not is a body on the floor doing daily inspections — that work sits with a site coordinator or a fractional safety manager underneath the director.
Typically between 20 and 60 hours a month depending on site count and how mature the program is. A single-site manufacturer with existing programs sits at the low end; a three-plant company with no written programs and an open OSHA case sits at the high end for the first six months, then drops.
A consultant delivers a report and leaves. A fractional director owns outcomes on an ongoing basis, sits in your leadership meetings, and is accountable for the same metrics an employed director would be. The model is leadership, not a project.
A full-time EHS director in manufacturing generally runs well into six figures once salary, benefits, bonus and payroll burden are counted. A fractional arrangement is a fixed monthly fee and usually lands at a fraction of that, because you are buying judgment and oversight rather than forty hours of presence.
That is the intended path. Most engagements run heaviest in the first 90 days, step down as the operating system takes hold, and settle into a maintenance tier. Some clients eventually hire internally and keep us for oversight and sign-off only.
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