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Seven Seas Water Group
Seven Seas Water Group ( www.sevenseaswater.com ) is a portfolio company owned by investment funds managed by EQT. Headquartered in Tampa, with operations across the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America, Seven Seas Water Group (SSWG) delivers annually over 20 billion gallons of water to industrial, commercial, governmental, municipal, and hospitality customers. SSWG designs, builds, owns, and operates, delivers new facilities, or acquires and upgrades existing facilities, with the goal of optimizing project risk transfer between the public and private sectors. We have more than 200 water and wastewater treatment plants in operations throughout the United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. With an outstanding reputation for decentralized water and wastewater treatment solutions, the SSWG "Water-as-a-Service®" approach seeks to help solve global water and wastewater infrastructure challenges.
SSWG operates two businesses within the water infrastructure space. Seven Seas Water, which provides water treatment and desalination for governmental, hospitality and industrial customers in United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the AUC Group ( www.aucgroup.net ), which provides decentralized water and wastewater treatment plants for industrial and municipal customers in the United States.
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of more than three decades of developing companies across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business' development, from start-up to maturity. EQT has EUR 273 billion in total assets under management (EUR 141 billion in fee-generating assets under management) as of 30 June 2025, within two business segments - Private Capital and Real Assets.
With its roots in the Wallenberg family's entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.
The EQT AB Group comprises EQT AB (publ) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, which include general partners and fund managers of EQT funds as well as entities advising EQT funds. EQT has offices in more than 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and has more than 1,900 employees.
Seven Seas Water Group is a portfolio company of EQT AB (together with its subsidiaries, "EQT"), a purpose-driven global investment organization that partners with companies worldwide through its Private Capital and Real Assets strategies. Founded in 1994, EQT is a leading active ownership firm that has more than EUR 273 billion in total assets under management across nearly 50 active funds. EQT is committed to investing behind essential infrastructure, partnering with established platforms that deliver sustainable, mission critical services aligned with global needs for resource efficiency.
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Job Summary
The Global Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) Director serves as the enterprise owner of environmental and safety risk management across Seven Seas Water Group's global platform. This includes all of the Seven Seas Water Group of companies in the Caribbean, South America, and Texas, as well as the AUC Group, LLC in Texas. This role is accountable for establishing scalable EH&S governance, institutionalizing best practices, and delivering measurable reductions in operational risk, incidents, and regulatory exposure. The Director will translate regulatory requirements and industry standards into disciplined operating models, performance metrics, and executive-level reporting that support safe growth, operational continuity, and value creation in a private-equity-backed environment. This role will be required to be based working from the Tampa, Florida corporate office with travel to sites throughout the Seven Seas Water Group.
Requirements
Key skills and Qualifications
• Establish and own a standardized global EH&S operating framework, including policies, controls, and best practices that enable consistency, scalability, and regulatory compliance across all operating entities.
• Design, implement, and govern enterprise EH&S performance measures, including leading and lagging indicators, to proactively manage risk, prevent incidents, and demonstrate program effectiveness to senior leadership and the Board.
• Build and maintain executive-level dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide transparent, action-oriented visibility into EH&S performance, trends, incidents, near-misses, corrective actions, and continuous improvement outcomes.
• Lead a disciplined, risk-based approach to audits, inspections, and assessments, ensuring timely remediation of findings, closure of systemic gaps, and sustained regulatory readiness.
• Benchmark EH&S programs against industry standards and best-in-class operators, identifying opportunities to elevate maturity, reduce loss exposure, and support long-term enterprise value.
• Partner with operations, engineering, and capital project teams to embed EH&S requirements into operating procedures, asset design, and investment decisions, ensuring risk is managed upfront rather than reactively.
• Drive a performance-oriented culture of safety and environmental accountability through management engagement, data-driven reviews, and continuous improvement rigor across all levels of the organization.
• Serve as the senior point of accountability for regulatory engagement, enforcement actions, and incident response, ensuring effective communication, disciplined resolution, and protection of the Company's license to operate.
• Foster a culture of safety excellence and continuous improvement, engaging all levels of the organization.
• Role will provide guidance and mentorship to many levels of management throughout the organization on EH&S as well as managing other safety leaders across the Seven Seas Water Group.
EH&S Governance & Performance Excellence
• Own the global EH&S governance model, ensuring clear accountability, standardized metrics, and disciplined execution across all operating entities.
• Ensure EH&S metrics and outcomes are integrated into management operating reviews and enterprise risk management discussions.
• Translate performance data, audit insights, and incident learnings into sustained cultural and operational improvements that reduce risk, enhance reliability, and support profitable growth.
• Own the digital EHS management systems, including incident reporting, corrective action tracking, EH&S KPI management, inspections, training and analytics.
• Board level reporting of KPI's, and updates, and the ability to lead presentations at all levels of the organization.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Occupational Health & Safety, Engineering, or a related field (Master's preferred).
• Current CSP certification, or ability to get within the first 6 months is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of EH&S leadership experience
• Proven track record in managing EH&S programs in water & wastewater, utilities, or industrial environments.
• Thorough knowledge of EH&S regulations and standards (OSHA, EPA, ISO, etc.).
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments and at all organizational levels.
• Certification(s) such as CSP, CIH, or similar preferred.
• Experience with sustainability and environmental stewardship initiatives a plus.
• Experience working outside of the U.S., and with employees and managers from other cultures is important in this multi-national company.
• Prior experience utilizing KPA, or a similar safety management program.
• Prior experience with both water industry, and construction standards.
• Prior experience with both water industry, and construction standards.
How to Apply
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.
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Applicant will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.