Regional Health and Safety Senior Manager

CVI Infrared Optics•Northbrook, IL

35d

About The Position

IDEX Corporation has a strong track record of performance and a diverse portfolio of businesses across several markets and industries. IDEX offers an entrepreneurial environment that rewards creative thinking and problem solving. Reporting directly to the Corporate Health and Safety Director, the Regional Health and Safety Senior Manager, Europe and Asia will be a key member of the Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) team. This position has global responsibilities and will support multiple businesses across the enterprise. This position will require frequent travel to IDEX business units within Europe, Asia and India. Role would support over 50 sites and more than 3,600 employees within the region. He/she will be responsible for overseeing the business units’ compliance with local health and safety regulations, IDEX policies and standards. This position will support the development and implementation of global health and safety programs and a health and safety management framework and promote local business unit alignment. This position will also promote a culture of health and safety excellence and provide high-quality technical health and safety leadership consisting of roughly 70% tactical and 30% strategic execution. The role will continue to drive implementation of corrective/preventative actions and sharing of best practices to improve performance, regulatory compliance, and to reduce risk. This position will engage in problem-solving and provide key input to executive and senior leadership to support joint decision making, and acts as a subject matter expert on cross-functional initiatives and projects for the organization globally. Of critical importance will be this leader’s ability to establish credible working relationships with the company’s leadership teams, EHS professionals located at IDEX’s business units, and operations teams within IDEX’s decentralized environment.

Requirements

Minimum of 10+ years of related experience preferred in a manufacturing environment with multi-site or corporate experience.
Bachelor’s degree is strongly preferred.
Experience with sites located across Europe is required, preferably the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Italy.
Genuine interest and passion for health and safety issues and relevant regulations.
Advanced knowledge of health and safety regulations, including OSHA.
Advanced knowledge and experience with EHS software tools; Benchmark Gensuite experience is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated experience in developing health and safety training to/for multiple levels.
Demonstrated experience with engaging people across organizations to build a culture of safety compliance and excellence.
Ability to influence business decisions/solutions and provide fact-based recommendations by analyzing and interpreting data of current state processes.
A team player with the ability to think conceptually, flexibly, and strategically.
Strong project management experience and skills.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills.
Ability to travel without restriction; ability to travel up to 70% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Experience with sites located in China and India is beneficial but not essential.
Certified Safety Professional (CSP) is beneficial.
ISO 14001 and 45001 experience is beneficial.
Knowledge and experience with Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a subject matter expert for IDEX and assigned business units in health and safety, regulatory compliance, and risk assessment and reduction to create an enterprise-wide, proactive safety culture; direct activities on these matters.
Establish and grow a strong personal brand as a sought-after subject matter expert in health and safety management by delivering manageable results through a combination of coaching, hands on involvement and side by side partnering at the most critical points of impact.
Lead and/or provide guidance on incident reviews, sharing of learnings, and follow up/closure; using incident learnings to support strategy and drive continuous improvement across the company; lead and/or provide guidance on investigations of workplace injuries, accidents, and events.
Work with leadership and health and safety professionals located at assigned business units to identify and develop health and safety programs to reduce compliance risk, reduce incidents, and improve program.
Assist in development and support implementation of policies, procedures, programs, and strategies in compliance with country rules and regulations with an emphasis on prevention efforts geared toward near miss reporting, incident reduction goals and risk mitigation efforts.
Measure and monitor business unit compliance with policies, procedures and programs.
Act as a subject matter expert in using Benchmark Gensuite for assigned business units, including developing strategy for compliance with system, implementing new applications/programs, and teaching/training users.
Use subject matter expertise to identify, develop, and lead health and safety improvement initiatives to drive culture of continuous improvement.
Influence internal stakeholders with respect to health and safety compliance and programs and provide subject matter expertise to internal stakeholders on regulatory requirements.
Support the development of key performance metrics (KPIs) for the organization to address areas of potential opportunity or concern; track performance of identified metrics with a goal of year over year progress.
Foster and lead a health and safety internal community through targeted relationship building activities, training/education, and best practice sharing.
Develop, coach, train, mentor, and influence health and safety professionals globally to improve team capabilities and skills.
Lead audits and implement follow-up corrective actions to ensure compliance, reduce risk, and improve performance.
Lead engagement with applicable regulatory authorities at assigned business units when required.
Keep current with new and pending health and safety regulations that may have an impact on the business, and effectively communicate with leaders, EHS personnel, and business units.
Partner with stakeholders to conduct due diligence reviews on potential acquisition targets; determine processes to integrate and train new acquisitions and lead health and safety compliance integration efforts.
Will need to be able to take experiences from site visits, audits, meetings, incident and program reviews and assist the global EHS team in developing a strategy to reduce the risk and improve the culture of the company.
Execute ad hoc duties, as required.