Director, Environmental Health & Safety

CACI International • Danbury, CT

3d • $114,500 - $251,900

About The Position

The Director, Manufacturing Environmental Health & Safety is the enterprise-level executive accountable for safety and environmental performance across the organization's manufacturing sites. The role owns the strategy, governance, and leadership engagement model needed to build a world-class safety culture in which site and manufacturing leaders visibly own safety outcomes.

The Director advances manufacturing network performance across TRIR, LTIR, severity rate, and leading-indicator engagement metrics through disciplined management systems, rigorous incident investigation and prevention, and a leadership cadence that engages plant managers, operations leaders, and front-line supervisors. This highly visible, enterprise-scope role combines deep EHS technical expertise with the ability to influence operations leaders and personally engage when manufacturing sites need support.

The Director owns the enterprise EHS management system, manufacturing environmental compliance, risk reduction, industrial hygiene, audit readiness, EHS metrics and executive reporting, and response to significant incidents. The role also builds and leads a high-performing manufacturing EHS organization and partners with HR and Manufacturing Excellence to embed safety expectations in leadership development and manufacturing operations.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of related experience, including at least 10 years of progressive EHS leadership experience within manufacturing operations.
• At least five years of experience in the aerospace and defense industry or a comparably regulated, safety-critical manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated track record of measurably improving safety KPIs across a multi-site manufacturing network, with clear before-and-after results.
• Experience designing and leading a leadership engagement model that changed how plant managers and front-line supervisors personally own safety.
• Deep working knowledge of OSHA, EPA, and applicable state EHS regulatory frameworks as applied to manufacturing operations.
• Experience with ISO 45001 and/or ISO 14001 management systems.
• Experience leading serious incident investigations and corrective action processes, including direct engagement with regulators as needed.
• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through urgency and personally engage on the floor or at a site during a serious safety event.

Nice To Haves

• CSP, CIH, or equivalent professional certification.
• Experience building or scaling behavior-based safety programs across a multi-site manufacturing network.
• Familiarity with AS9100/NADCAP-governed manufacturing environments and integration of safety standard work with quality and production standard work.
• Experience benchmarking manufacturing EHS organization design and staffing models against industry peers.
• Advanced degree, such as an MS in Occupational Safety or Industrial Hygiene, an MBA, or a related degree.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead an enterprise leadership engagement model involving plant managers, operations directors, and front-line supervisors in safety walks, leader-led toolbox talks, floor engagement, and accountability for site safety performance.
• Build behavior-based safety programs and observation systems to shift manufacturing safety culture from compliance-driven to ownership-driven.
• Coach site leaders and hold them accountable for safety leadership behaviors, using engagement and perception survey data and lagging metrics to assess culture maturity.
• Champion recognition and escalation mechanisms that reinforce safe behavior and surface at-risk conditions.
• Own the enterprise EHS management system across manufacturing sites, ensuring consistent policies, standard work, and governance cadence.
• Establish a manufacturing EHS maturity model and site assessment and audit methodology, benchmarking sites against internal targets and external standards.
• Ensure the management system supports alignment with recognized standards, including ISO 45001 and ISO 14001, and applicable OSHA, EPA, and state regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with Manufacturing Excellence and site leadership to embed safety standard work in production standard work.
• Drive proactive hazard identification and risk reduction across manufacturing processes, equipment, and facilities, prioritizing engineering controls over administrative controls or PPE.
• Own environmental compliance for manufacturing operations, including permitting, waste management, emissions, and production-related reporting obligations.
• Ensure industrial hygiene programs, including exposure monitoring, ergonomics, noise, and chemical safety, meet or exceed regulatory requirements.
• Maintain audit readiness and lead responses to OSHA, EPA, and state-level regulatory inspections at manufacturing locations.
• Own manufacturing EHS site- and enterprise-level scorecard reporting, trends, and improvement activities.
• Report safety performance, culture maturity, and improvement roadmaps to executive leadership and the Board, with accountability tied to each manufacturing site.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for serious injuries, environmental releases, and high-potential near-misses, personally engaging on critical events.
• Lead or oversee root cause investigations of significant incidents, ensure corrective actions are closed, and share lessons learned across the enterprise.
• Ensure consistent incident classification and reporting standards across sites so performance data is comparable and trustworthy.
• Build and lead a high-performing manufacturing EHS organization, including site EHS leaders, industrial hygienists, safety engineers, and environmental compliance specialists.
• Develop the technical and coaching capability of the EHS team so members act as trusted advisors and culture-builders to site leadership.
• Partner with HR and Manufacturing Excellence to embed safety leadership expectations into leader onboarding, performance management, and succession planning for manufacturing leadership roles.

Benefits

• Flexible time off benefit.
• Learning resources and learning and development opportunities.
• Healthcare benefits.
• Wellness benefits.
• Financial benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Family support benefits.
• Continuing education benefits.
• Time off benefits.
• Competitive compensation and benefits options designed to support employees and their families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive