Sr. Director HSE - GMP - Concord

Eli Lilly and CompanyConcord, NC
$156,000 - $228,800Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Director, HSE (Health, Safety, and Environmental), is directly responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the HSE programs and systems for the Concord Plant manufacturing site. The Sr. Director HSE is responsible for the productivity and development of the HSE employees, resolution of health, safety and environmental issues and ensuring compliance to Corporate and regulatory requirements. This role provides HSE oversight for all site operations, including Manufacturing, environmental control, utilities, and waste operations, lab facilities, emergency response, and administrative facilities. In addition, the Senior Director HSE provides functional HSE leadership, direction and governance to the HSE organization at the site. This role will connect the Concord Plant HSE team to the Corporate HSE group to ensure alignment and will be responsible for the systems that support regulatory inspections. The Senior Director HSE is a member of the Concord Plant Site Lead Team. The Lead Team has collective responsibility to develop and implement the strategic direction, organizational capability and management of the site. Primarily, the Lead Team drives the site toward achieving long term business objectives; continuously develops the business and organization for the future; and manages issues that span multiple teams in the organization and extend into the broader corporate/external context. Site Lead Team members provide oversight to enable successful project delivery, build and empower a resilient organization, and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations, and progress the site culture. This requires significant collaboration, creativity and flexibility as the site undertakes full-scale GMP manufacturing operations.

Requirements

  • Experienced leadership of HSE programs and HSE management systems in a manufacturing setting (e.g., pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, food and beverage).
  • Experience with implementing and managing environmental compliance programs in accordance with regulatory requirements.
  • Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies on environmental, health, and safety requirements.
  • Minimum of a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline and a minimum of 10-15 years of experience in a leadership role managing HSE teams/programs.
  • Must be able to work closely with the Site Leadership team to ensure alignment with corporate objectives and internal decision making processes, and be able to connect and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
  • Experience developing and managing talented, engaged and high performing teams with a focus on building strong team cultures to ensure a safe and successful work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and Lilly Global standards for Health Safety and Environment.
  • Continue to define and support the site HSE priorities & roadmap, integrating functional Lead Team partners as required.
  • Develop and manage the HSE business initiatives, HSE Plan and HSE metrics.
  • Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are continually met.
  • Have external focus, benchmark best practices across network and externally.
  • Develop future management and technical leadership for the site and network/global roles.
  • Escalate critical environmental, health and safety issues as appropriate to line management and corporate HSE management.

Benefits

  • company bonus
  • company-sponsored 401(k)
  • pension
  • vacation benefits
  • medical benefits
  • dental benefits
  • vision benefits
  • prescription drug benefits
  • flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts)
  • life insurance
  • death benefits
  • certain time off and leave of absence benefits
  • well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)
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