Director Of Qhse

Director of QHSE - Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental

Full-Time | On-site | Baton Rouge, LA

Our client isn't your typical HVAC installer — they engineer and validate highly specialized environmental control equipment built for the most demanding facilities in the country, including data centers, industrial sites, and other high-consequence environments where failure is not an option.

We are is seeking an experienced Director of QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental) to lead and strengthen our quality, safety, and environmental programs across our growing manufacturing operations.

This is a high-level leadership position responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving the systems, processes, standards, and accountability necessary to ensure we manufacture high-quality products while maintaining a safe and compliant workplace.

The Director of QHSE will provide leadership over the Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Safety functions, with the QA/QC Manager and Safety Manager reporting directly to this position.

This individual must be comfortable working directly on the manufacturing floor, identifying problems, understanding why failures and nonconformances are occurring, and developing sustainable processes to prevent recurrence. This is not simply a compliance or administrative position. We are looking for a hands-on leader who can build systems, develop people, improve processes, and drive accountability throughout the organization.

Key Responsibilities

QHSE Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the company's Quality, Health, Safety, and Environmental programs.
• Lead and develop the QA/QC and Safety departments, including direct oversight of the QA/QC Manager and Safety Manager.
• Establish clear responsibilities, expectations, metrics, and accountability across QHSE functions.
• Partner with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, Testing, and executive leadership to improve overall operational performance.
• Develop a strong culture of quality, safety, accountability, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Provide leadership with regular reporting on quality trends, safety performance, significant risks, corrective actions, and improvement initiatives.

Quality Assurance & Quality Control

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the company's overall Quality Management System (QMS).
• Provide leadership and direction to the QA/QC Manager and quality team.
• Evaluate current manufacturing and inspection processes to identify quality gaps, recurring failures, and opportunities for improvement.
• Establish standardized inspection processes, quality checkpoints, acceptance criteria, and documentation throughout manufacturing.
• Oversee the identification, documentation, investigation, and resolution of nonconformance reports (NCRs).
• Analyze NCRs, defects, rework, testing failures, customer issues, and other quality data to identify recurring trends and systemic problems.
• Lead or oversee root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to ensure problems are permanently addressed rather than repeatedly corrected.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, work instructions, inspection procedures, quality standards, and process controls.
• Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing to improve design-for-manufacturability, build quality, and process consistency.
• Establish quality KPIs and dashboards, including NCRs, rework, first-pass yield, defects, testing failures, corrective-action closure, and customer quality issues.
• Support supplier quality and incoming material inspection processes in partnership with Supply Chain.
• Ensure quality requirements are incorporated throughout the entire manufacturing process from incoming materials through fabrication, assembly, electrical integration, HVAC/refrigeration, testing, final inspection, and shipment.

Health & Safety

• Provide leadership and oversight to the Safety Manager and overall workplace safety program.
• Ensure