Director, Health & Safety

DSV•Dallas, TX

4d•$180,000 - $200,000

About The Position

The Director, Health & Safety – NASA Region is the senior regional leader responsible for implementing, governing and overseeing the performance of Health & Safety across DSV’s in-scope Contract Logistics and Data Centre operations throughout North and South America. Based in the DFW area, the role translates global Health & Safety strategy, management-system requirements and customer commitments into consistent regional execution, while ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, provincial and local legislation. The Director leads and develops the regional Health & Safety team, including Regional Safety Managers, and establishes clear accountabilities, performance expectations and consistent practices across countries, sites and operational portfolios. The role owns regional governance, performance monitoring, operational risk oversight, incident escalation and investigation assurance, audit programs and corrective-action effectiveness. It provides authoritative guidance to regional and site operations, challenges unsafe practices, escalates material risks and ensures appropriate controls are implemented. As the senior regional Health & Safety representative, the Director works with regional business leaders, site management, the global Health & Safety function and customer stakeholders to maintain regulatory compliance, meet contractual requirements, strengthen safety culture and achieve sustained improvements in operational safety performance. The role has authority to set regional priorities, require corrective action, recommend resources and operational changes, and exercise or invoke stop-work or stop-task escalation where there is an imminent or unacceptable risk, in accordance with policy, law and delegated authority.

Requirements

Degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Safety Engineering, Engineering, Environmental Health or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional education and experience where accepted by DSV.
Recognized professional Health & Safety qualification appropriate to the role and local requirements.
Typically 10 or more years of progressive Health & Safety experience, including substantial leadership responsibility in complex operational environments.
Demonstrated experience leading a multi-site Health & Safety function across multiple countries, states or jurisdictions.
Proven experience directly managing, developing and holding other Health & Safety professionals accountable for performance.
Experience in logistics, warehousing, distribution, supply chain, manufacturing, data centers or comparable high-risk operational environments.
Strong working knowledge of applicable US federal and state requirements and, where relevant, Canadian, Latin American and other regional legal requirements.
Demonstrated ownership of incident escalation, investigation assurance, root cause analysis, corrective-action management and lessons learned.
Experience managing customer audit programs, presenting to senior customer stakeholders and delivering against customer-specific requirements.
Experience implementing and assuring Health & Safety management systems, ideally aligned with ISO 45001 principles.
Experience supporting new site launches, new business implementations, operational change and risk-based assurance programs.
Ability in regional and strategic leadership, people management, coaching and talent development, operational risk management, critical-control assurance, incident investigation, regulatory compliance, audit and management-system assurance, customer relationship management, executive communication, performance analytics, evidence-based decision-making, program and change management, influencing, constructive challenge, conflict resolution, crisis management, sound judgment, continuous improvement, accountability and cross-site collaboration.
Additional qualifications or training in incident investigation, auditing, risk management or management systems are advantageous.

Nice To Haves

Additional qualifications or training in incident investigation, auditing, risk management or management systems.
Experience with Health & Safety management systems aligned with ISO 45001 principles.

Responsibilities

Lead implementation of the Global Health & Safety strategy, policies, standards and mandatory programs throughout the NASA Region, and develop and execute a regional plan aligned with business priorities, customer commitments and legal obligations.
Own the regional Health & Safety governance framework, including review cadence, decision-making, escalation routes and accountability for actions; set expectations and verify consistent execution across sites and portfolios.
Advise and challenge regional directors, site general managers and operational leaders on material risks, compliance gaps and safety performance; represent the region in global governance and customer or business reviews, and promptly escalate significant risks and serious incidents.
Directly manage, coach and develop Regional Safety Managers; set objectives and performance expectations, conduct one-to-ones and reviews, address underperformance, and maintain clear team portfolios and coverage.
Assess team capability, competency, capacity and resource requirements; plan for gaps; lead recruitment, onboarding, talent development and succession planning; and ensure Health & Safety personnel have appropriate competence, authority, training and resources.
Ensure effective implementation of Health & Safety policies, standards, procedures and programs across in-scope operations; oversee site risk assessments and verify they remain suitable, current and reviewed after material changes or incidents.
Lead risk-based improvement initiatives using the hierarchy of controls and verify critical controls; review risks from new business, site launches, operational changes, workload, equipment, staffing and processes; and ensure applicable pre-start-up and readiness reviews are completed.
Oversee controls for high-risk operational activities, including material handling equipment, pedestrian and vehicle segregation, dock safety, lifting and movement of heavy equipment or server racks, contractor activities and permit-to-work interfaces.
Conduct or oversee risk-based site visits to verify controls and ensure findings are addressed; promote hazard identification, safety observations, near-miss reporting, behavioral safety campaigns and employee engagement.
Ensure incidents, injuries, near misses, high-potential events, property damage and other reportable events are reported and escalated within DSV and customer timeframes; oversee classification, notification, investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions and lessons learned.
Lead or oversee significant and high-potential incident investigations; review investigation quality and verify that corrective and preventive actions are proportionate, assigned, completed and effective; monitor trends and develop action plans to prevent recurrence.
Support regional responses to serious incidents and emergencies, including accurate and timely executive and customer updates; communicate lessons learned to relevant sites, regional leaders, the global function and customers where required.
Develop and maintain a risk-based regional Health & Safety audit, inspection and assurance program; conduct or oversee audits and management-system assessments, coordinate readiness for customer audits and regulatory inspections, and monitor compliance obligations.
Verify management-system and customer-standard implementation across operational locations; challenge overdue or ineffective corrective actions, escalate repeated gaps and drive solutions to systemic weaknesses across multiple sites.
Act as the senior regional Health & Safety interface for designated key customers; ensure customer requirements and contractual commitments are communicated, implemented and verified; participate in governance meetings, audits and performance reviews.
Provide regional Health & Safety reports, incident analyses, improvement plans and executive presentations; coordinate customer responses and track ownership, due dates, evidence and effectiveness checks; escalate customer concerns and unresolved commitments.
Identify regional training needs and maintain required competencies, training matrices and verification processes; ensure onboarding and induction cover DSV, customer, site and legal requirements; coach leaders and monitor training completion and competence.
Promote worker consultation, employee engagement, safety champion networks, proactive reporting and recognition of positive safety behaviors; share lessons and effective practices across the region and with the global function.
Verify that sites maintain appropriate emergency plans, roles, contacts and arrangements; oversee emergency drills and exercises and follow-up actions; provide Health & Safety leadership during emergencies and support crisis management and business continuity.
Own the regional Health & Safety scorecard and provide timely, accurate reporting to global and regional leadership; monitor leading and lagging indicators, analyze trends and systemic issues, agree improvement objectives and track delivery.
Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports, dashboards and presentations that explain performance, key risks, decisions required and corrective actions; drive continuous improvement and verify sustained results.
Set regional Health & Safety priorities and direct Regional Safety Managers within global strategy and delegated authority; require teams to address identified gaps, recommend additional resources or operational changes, and make recommendations concerning risk acceptance, readiness and resumption of work.