Regional Director, HSE & Maintenance – North America

Barnes • East Hartford, CT

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Regional Director, HSE & Maintenance, North America will provide leadership and hands-on support across North American manufacturing sites, driving excellence in environmental, health, safety, maintenance, and equipment reliability. This role partners closely with site leadership to strengthen regulatory compliance, reduce operational risk, enhance maintenance effectiveness, and implement standardized HSE, preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs. The position is responsible for improving safety performance, equipment uptime, asset reliability, facility infrastructure, and continuous improvement initiatives that support safe, efficient, and productive operations across the region.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in HSE, manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, facilities, or related operational leadership, with substantial direct HSE responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multiple manufacturing locations and working effectively with site General Managers, Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, HR, and frontline leadership.
• Strong working knowledge of OSHA requirements and manufacturing safety programs, including machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, working from heights, contractor safety, incident investigation, and corrective-action management.
• Working knowledge of EPA and state environmental compliance requirements applicable to manufacturing operations, including hazardous waste, air, water, chemical management, spill prevention, and regulatory reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to assess operational risk, identify compliance gaps, establish priorities, and drive corrective actions through sustainable closure.
• Experience supporting or improving industrial maintenance and reliability programs, including preventive/predictive maintenance, TPM, CMMS, maintenance planning and scheduling, equipment criticality, downtime analysis, and root cause failure analysis.
• Ability to develop and support broader maintenance strategies involving critical spare parts, maintenance staffing and technical capability, OEM/service agreements, and regional vendor optimization.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between maintenance performance, equipment availability, unplanned downtime, uptime, and OEE.
• Ability to independently manage multiple sites and priorities, influence leaders without direct authority, and appropriately escalate significant HSE, compliance, maintenance, or operational risks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to operate effectively on the manufacturing floor and communicate with senior leadership.
• Ability to travel regularly throughout North America.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Technology, Operations, or a related discipline preferred.
• CSP strongly preferred.
• CMRP, CIH, CHMM, CFM, or related professional certifications are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide regional HSE leadership and hands-on support across North American manufacturing locations, partnering with site GMs, Operations, and local HSE resources to improve compliance, risk management, and execution of the Barnes HSE framework.
• Support compliance with OSHA, EPA, state, local, and Company requirements through site assessments, audits, self-assessments, regulatory reviews, and corrective-action follow-up.
• Identify and reduce significant HSE risks, including machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, working from heights, hazardous materials, and environmental compliance.
• Lead and support incident and near-miss investigations, root cause analysis, corrective-action development, and effectiveness verification.
• Strengthen site HSE management systems, training, risk assessments, compliance documentation, and accountability for timely closure of identified gaps.
• Coach and support site HSE personnel and establish consistent HSE expectations and practices across North America.
• Provide regional leadership for maintenance and equipment reliability improvement in partnership with site Operations and Maintenance teams. Develop and drive a standardized maintenance strategy incorporating preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance, including an annual TPM program for production equipment.
• Improve CMMS discipline, PM completion, maintenance planning and scheduling, asset criticality, equipment history, backlog management, and reliability performance.
• Develop a regional critical-spares strategy based on equipment criticality, lead time, downtime exposure, and financial return to improve parts availability and reduce extended outages.
• Assess maintenance staffing and technical capability across sites, identify specialty skills, improve deployment of internal resources between locations, and determine appropriate insource versus contracted maintenance support.
• Partner with sites to reduce recurring equipment failures and unplanned downtime through root cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions, supporting improved equipment availability, uptime, and OEE.
• Develop and optimize regional OEM, TPM, and maintenance service agreements to improve consistency, service levels, response time, and cost while reducing unnecessary site-by-site contracting.
• Support critical facility infrastructure reliability and provide Barnes oversight of service providers, including performance expectations, contractor safety, escalation, and accountability.
• Establish and monitor meaningful HSE, maintenance, reliability, and facilities KPIs and communicate performance, risks, and priorities to leadership.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions for eligible medical plan participants
• flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• life and disability insurance
• paid vacation and holidays
• employee assistance program (EAP)
• wellness programs
• tuition reimbursement
• employee discounts
• voluntary accident and critical illness coverage
• pet insurance
• work-life support resources

What This Job Offers

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