Senior Director, Radiation Protection & Environmental Health & Safety

Siemens Healthineers

14d•$177,780 - $244,442

About The Position

The Senior Director, Radiation Protection & Environmental Health & Safety provides executive leadership and organizational accountability for Radiation Protection and Environmental Health & Safety (RPEHS) across Siemens Healthineers Radiopharma globally. The role leads the global organization and owns its strategy, governance, budget, resources, EHS Management System, and future capabilities to meet applicable legal and regulatory requirements and support sustainable business growth. The position operates across a regulated and evolving Radiopharma environment, including radiopharmaceutical manufacturing, cyclotron operations, Theranostics, CDMO activities, new products and isotopes, facility development, and geographic expansion. It has two areas of accountability: executive and global RPEHS leadership, and Corporate Radiation Safety Officer (CRSO) responsibilities, subject to applicable U.S. qualification, designation, and regulatory requirements. As the CRSO, the role administers and continuously improves the U.S. Radiation Protection Program across licensed operations, oversees U.S. radioactive material licensing and cyclotron-registration strategy, and provides final Radiation Protection review and approval where applicable. It also leads the Corporate Radiation Safety Committee and exercises independent regulatory judgment on significant Radiation Protection and regulatory matters.

Requirements

University degree in Radiation Protection, Health Physics, Medical Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, EHS, or a closely related scientific or engineering discipline.
Significant leadership experience in Radiation Protection, EHS, radiopharmaceutical manufacturing, accelerator operations, or another complex regulated environment.
Demonstrated experience leading managers and multidisciplinary technical teams across countries, cultures, organizational boundaries, and time zones.
Demonstrated experience in organizational strategy, management systems, business growth, organizational design, talent development, budgets, workforce planning, and resource prioritization.
Strong executive communication and business judgment, with the ability to translate technical, regulatory, and organizational risks into decisions and build alignment across a complex matrix organization.
At least five years of applied health physics experience involving Radiation Protection issues comparable to the U.S. Radiopharma program.
Demonstrated experience as a named RSO or CRSO with U.S. radioactive-material licensing, cyclotron registrations, regulatory inspections, investigations, corrective actions, and Radiation Protection Program management.
Demonstrated ability to exercise independent regulatory judgment and prioritize competing Radiation Protection, regulatory, and operational demands across multiple U.S. sites, including time-critical situations.
Certification by the American Board of Health Physics as a Certified Health Physicist or by the American Board of Medical Physics in Medical Health Physics.
Ability to meet applicable licensing, regulatory, and location requirements for CRSO designation and maintain effective engagement with U.S. licensed operations and regulatory authorities.
Ability to work with controlled technology in accordance with U.S. export control law.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the global RPEHS strategy and future capability roadmap, translating business growth, technologies, products, facilities, acquisitions, and regulatory developments into organizational, resource, and governance requirements.
Integrate RPEHS into business strategy, investment, facility development, operational readiness, and major business decisions; identify constraints to compliant and sustainable growth.
Own the architecture, governance, effectiveness, and continuous evolution of the global Radiopharma EHS Management System across international and U.S. federal and state legal and regulatory frameworks.
Establish global requirements, operational controls, accountabilities, performance expectations, management review, and escalation principles while enabling appropriate regional and local implementation.
Set the RPEHS digitalization, data, workflow, and automation roadmap to improve compliance management, transparency, scalability, and organizational learning.
Design and lead the global RPEHS organization, including structure, decision authority, budget and cost-center responsibility, workforce and resource strategy, talent development, succession, employee engagement, and retention.
Develop managers and technical leaders and build effective networks across Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Security, Training, HR, IT, and other functions.
Provide executive visibility and escalation of significant risks, regulatory developments, performance, capability gaps, and resource requirements; represent RPEHS in executive planning, investments, integrations, and other major business decisions.
Serve as designated CRSO with the authority and organizational independence required to administer and continuously improve the U.S. Radiation Protection Program across licensed operations.
Own U.S. radioactive material licensing and cyclotron-registration strategy and maintain working relationships with federal and state radiation-control authorities through licensing activities, inspections, investigations, regulatory correspondence, notifications, and enforcement matters.
Provide final Radiation Protection review and approval, as applicable, for licensing submissions, shielding and facility designs, new or modified licensed activities, Theranostics programs, new products and isotopes, construction and expansion projects, significant process changes, and operational readiness.
Establish and approve U.S. Radiation Protection Program requirements and lead the Corporate Radiation Safety Committee, including oversight of RSO/DRSO qualification, appointment, development, and performance.
Maintain operational oversight of dosimetry, ALARA, monitoring, radioactive material transportation, waste management, material accountability, required records, compliance assessments, and corrective actions.
Exercise independent regulatory judgment and lead Radiation Protection aspects of incidents, reportability decisions, regulatory notifications, inspections, investigations, legal matters, and other significant U.S. regulatory issues.