Director Environmental Health & Safety

Danaher Corporation•San Diego, CA

5d•$146,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Environmental Health & Services is responsible for planning, directing, and implementing environmental, health and safety (EH&S) programs to ensure compliance, reduce risk, and identify and resolve EH&S program gaps and deficiencies. This role has global responsibility for developing EH&S and environmental sustainability management strategies and directing EH&S resources across IDT. The scope of this role covers Manufacturing Sites (Coralville, IA; San Diego, CA; Raleigh, NC; Boulder, CO; Fargo, ND; Madison, WI; Leuven, Belgium and Singapore), Regional Sales, Research, Service & Warehouse facilities. This position reports to the Vice President, Global Operations and is part of the Operations Department. The role is an on-site position and can be based at any of the listed US locations: Coralville, IA; San Diego, CA; Raleigh, NC; Boulder, CO; Fargo, ND; or Madison, WI.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
An ability to work under own initiative is important as is the ability to prioritize multiple workloads and tasks whilst still meeting timelines.
A proven track record of driving the EH&S agenda in a multi-site, global manufacturing organization.
Must possess the ability to engage the workforce at all levels in the journey to build a strong EH&S culture and a collaborative team-oriented approach to EH&S management across the business.
Broad EH&S experience, including working-level subject matter expertise, project/process leadership and department or functional area management.
Must reside in US with frequent travel to Coralville, relocation to Iowa preferred.
Must be able to view issues in a systematic and logical way.

Nice To Haves

EH&S-related licenses, certifications and/or membership in EH&S professional associations
Experience with Mergers and Acquisitions (due diligence and integration) and risk and liability management is preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading Business Continuity Planning and supervision of BCP team and activities

Responsibilities

Plans, develops, and implements an EH&S and environmental sustainability management strategy, programs, policies and procedures for IDT globally.
Ensures the company full compliance with applicable laws, regulations and customer requirements through the implementation of compliance programs and standard work for the management and preparation and submission of environmental reports in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and customer requirements.
Leads a global, facility EH&S review process to help management detect accident/health hazards and determine corrective or preventative measures and follows up to ensure measures have been implemented and are producing the desired results.
Ensures that the EH&S team globally remains up-to-date and conversant with relevant laws, regulations and other statutory requirements that impact EH&S across their local areas of responsibility.
Leads and coordinates all OpCo, Danaher and external EH&S audits of IDT Globally (e.g. FM Global), develop action plans to resolve findings, and implement countermeasures promptly and effectively.
Serves as the IDT Global contact for relevant government agencies, the Danaher point of contact for IDT, and the IDT representative on the Danaher EH&S Operations Leadership Council (“EH&SOLC”).
Provides leadership on EH&S issues, assist IDT top management in understanding business impacts of EH&S issues thereby enabling prudent allocation of resources and decision-making and assist them in identifying and implements corrective measures to improve each site’s EH&S performance against goals.