Corporate Director Environmental, Health, & S

NOVAE LLC • Markle, IN

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About The Position

Novae is one of North America’s leading trailer manufacturers, proudly producing 13 distinct brands of trailers and accessories. We believe our strength comes from a diverse, talented team committed to excellence, integrity, and meaningful collaboration. At Novae, you’ll join a mission-driven organization where your ideas matter, your skills are recognized, and your career growth is supported. Here, we don’t just build trailers—we build careers, community connections, and opportunities to make a real impact.

Job Summary: Responsible for the implementation, evaluation, and oversight of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) and Workers’ Compensation (WC) programs for all of Novae LLC to bring best practices, stability, regulatory compliance, and continuity among all facilities. In collaboration with facility level Operations, EHS, WC, and Human Resources teams, this position will actively participate in driving the safety culture safety culture as one of people watching out for each other.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred or the equivalent demonstrated skills and abilities.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a high level risk management role; experience managing regulatory programs and teams across multiple locations required, experience in a similar role in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Must be able to travel to all locations; this is likely to be about 25% of the time.
• Must be able to access all areas of production for support of the teams in investigation and resolution of workers’ compensation claims.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Mission-driven EHS and WC team to meet or exceed organizational goals while creating an environment where people can be great at what they do and proud of what they have done.  Monitor team performance, promote individual personal development, and provide team with guidance on performing individual tasks.
• Establish and provide strategic direction, administration, and supervision of the EHS and WC Programs, including the review and processing of EHS incidents and WC claims, legal documents, and participation in settlement negotiations.
• Recommend and implement loss control strategies; ensuring conformance to applicable laws and regulations while maintaining a high level of customer service across facilities.
• Drive high performance through policy, programs, best practices, compliance audits, and training, that meet or exceed the requirements of relevant regulatory bodies; ensuring that the company is in compliance with applicable laws and regulations for each state in which it operates.
• Working with all parties, provide oversight for WC cases to ensure best health outcomes of employees, while controlling costs and driving the timely processing of worker compensation claims for all locations. In part, this will be done by 1. auditing accident reports to determine accuracy and completeness and to ensure adequate investigation, 2. participating in post injury huddles (Corrective Action / Preventative Action conversations),  3. providing training and guidance to facility leaders, and  4. leading performance improvement initiatives in regard to Worker Compensation and Employee Risk Analysis
• Interface with insurance carrier(s) and/or Third Party Administrators, physicians, attorneys, employees and management staff in order to design and refine best practice level EHS and WC programs.
• Establish financial and performance related Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for EHS and WC team and complete regular data analysis.   Monitor KPIs to identify and communicate trends. Develop and support initiatives to improve performance.
• Forecast EHS and WC budgets.  Work to drive costs down through analysis and improvement of EHS and WC programs.  Connect financial data to specific risks and mitigations.  Identify and characterize risks through in-depth discussions with employees, customers, regulators, and third-party experts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees