Environmental Health & Safety Director

Ace Sanitary Holdings • West Chester, OH

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Corporate Director, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) BUILD THE SYSTEM. DEVELOP THE PEOPLE. RAISE THE STANDARD. Enterprise EHS strategy, governance, compliance assurance, and risk reduction across a multi-site manufacturing organization. This is an opportunity to shape how EHS works across an entire manufacturing organization—not simply maintain a program that already exists. Flow Control Holdings (FCH) is seeking an enterprise-minded EHS leader who can translate regulatory requirements and operational risk into clear standards, reliable systems, and practical action. As Corporate Director of EHS, you will partner with executives, site leaders, and cross-functional teams to prevent serious incidents, strengthen environmental compliance, and make EHS accountability part of everyday operational decision-making. The right candidate combines deep manufacturing EHS expertise with the judgment and influence to challenge leaders constructively, develop site capability, and escalate material risk when necessary. You will serve as FCH's primary EHS technical resource while creating the governance, data, auditing, and corrective-action systems needed for consistent execution across locations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, engineering, science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive EHS experience in manufacturing, including demonstrated leadership across multiple sites.
• Hands-on expertise interpreting and implementing OSHA requirements and recordkeeping, environmental permitting and compliance, hazardous waste, air, water and stormwater requirements, chemical reporting, and DOT hazardous-material requirements, as applicable.
• Demonstrated success with EHS audits and compliance assurance, incident investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action systems, regulatory submissions, agency inspections, and EHS metrics and data governance.
• Strong systems thinking, regulatory judgment, data-analysis capability, and attention to detail.
• The communication and leadership presence to influence executives, operational leaders, site teams, and indirect reports while addressing difficult issues with clarity and respect.
• Ability to travel approximately 25% by air and car; a valid driver's license is required.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a relevant field.
• CSP, CIH, CHMM, PE, or another recognized EHS professional certification.
• Experience selecting, implementing, or administering EHS information-management software.
• Experience supporting Continuous Improvement, Lean, and 5S initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop the company-wide EHS strategy and establish corporate policies, standards, decision rights, and accountability across manufacturing locations.
• Build and maintain a risk-based system that includes site-specific regulatory registers, compliance calendars, self-assessments, corporate audits, corrective-action tracking, due-date escalation, effectiveness verification, and management review.
• Interpret evolving federal, state, and local requirements; guide permitting, reporting, agency inspections, regulatory correspondence, and recordkeeping; and communicate business impacts to leaders and site teams.
• Lead risk assessments and oversee investigations of injuries, illnesses, near misses, and environmental events to identify root causes, systemic risk, and lessons that can be applied across the organization.
• Establish EHS review requirements for new equipment, chemicals, processes, construction, facility modifications, and capital projects before startup or implementation.
• Set and periodically test company requirements for fire and life safety, spills or releases, severe events, evacuation, and coordination with emergency responders.
• Coach site EHS professionals through a dotted-line relationship, strengthen leadership and employee capability, and provide governance for effective site safety committees.
• Own EHS data governance, KPIs, dashboards, reporting protocols, document control, and EHS information-management tools so leaders can act on accurate, timely information.
• Prioritize EHS budgets, capital needs, vendors, safety equipment standards, and improvement initiatives in partnership with Operations, Engineering, Facilities, HR, and site leadership.

What This Job Offers

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