AltaGas - Director, EHS Midstream

Job Description

AltaGas - Director, EHS Midstream

The Director, Environment, Health & Safety – Midstream is accountable for setting and delivering the safety strategy for the Midstream business, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant operations across all assets and activities. This role provides visible, field‑connected leadership to embed a strong safety culture, prevent serious incidents, and ensure safety is fully integrated into operational decision‑making.

The role has direct accountability for contractor safety performance, ensuring third‑party partners meet or exceed Midstream safety expectations and operate as an extension of the company’s safety culture.

What You'll Do: 

• Establish and lead a clear Midstream safety vision aligned with enterprise safety strategy and values

• Reinforce consistent safety leadership behaviours across employees and contractors

• Provide visible leadership presence in the field and at operating sites

• Ensure effective implementation of safety management systems across all Midstream operations, including company and contractor‑executed activities

• Lead identification, assessment, and mitigation of operational safety risks

• Ensure timely and robust incident reporting, investigation, and corrective action processes for employees and contractors

• Establish and enforce clear contractor safety standards, expectations, and governance across all Midstream operations

• Ensure contractor pre‑qualification, onboarding, and orientation processes effectively assess safety capability and risk

• Hold contractors accountable for safety performance through leading and lagging indicators, audits, and field verification

• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Project teams to embed safety requirements into contracting strategies, scopes of work, and performance management

• Ensure consistent oversight of contractor incident reporting, investigations, and corrective actions

• Drive alignment between company and contractor leadership on safety culture, behaviours, and risk ownership

• Influence contractor selection, contracting models, and execution strategies to reduce risk and improve safety outcomes across operating and project work

• Ensure compliance with all applicable environmental laws, regulations, and standards

• Lead initiatives to reduce environmental footprint and support sustainability goals

• Oversee environmental risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies

• Partner with Midstream Operations, Engineering, Projects, and Supply Chain to embed safety into daily operations, projects, contracting strategies, and execution plans

What You'll Bring: 

• Minimum of 15 years of experience working in senior Safety leadership roles within complex, multi-site organizations in the energy sector, preferably with midstream gas facilities

• Knowledge of how organizations operating in multiple jurisdictions manage safety regulations, occupational health standards, and safety management systems

• Exceptional ability to influence and collaborate across diverse teams and stakeholders

• Strategic thinker with a track record of delivering measurable improvements in Safety performance

• Commitment to inclusion, integrity, and continuous improvement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Occupational Safety & Health or closely related field required, Master’s degree preferred

• CSRP/CSP certification and/or other safety role relevant certifications

Why Join:

• Set and lead the safety vision for a high‑risk, contractor‑intensive Midstream portfolio, with direct accountability for contractor safety performance, serious incident prevention, and field‑level execution

• Influence contractor selection, contracting models, scopes of work, and execution strategies—partnering with Operations, Projects, and Supply Chain to reduce risk and drive consistent safety outcomes across company and third‑party work

• Operate as a hands‑on, field‑connected safety leader with the authority to challenge, coach, and influence both AltaGas leaders and contractors—embedding safety into day‑to‑day operational decision‑making

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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.