Danaher

Director Environmental Health & Safety

Danaher$146K — $200K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Proven experience in EH&S in a global manufacturing environment
  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work independently
  • Broad EH&S experience and project/process leadership
  • Capacity to engage across all levels of the workforce

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement EH&S and environmental sustainability strategies globally
  • Ensure full compliance with laws and regulations through established programs
  • Lead global EH&S review processes to identify and mitigate hazards
  • Keep the EH&S team updated on relevant legal and regulatory changes
  • Coordinate internal and external EH&S audits and address findings
  • Act as main contact for government agencies and represent on leadership council
  • Guide top management in understanding EH&S business impacts for effective resource allocation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care programs
  • Paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Opportunity for bonus/incentive pay
Full Job Description

The Director, Environmental Health & Services is responsible for planning, directing, and implementing environmental, health and safety (EH&S) programs to ensure compliance, reduce risk, and identify and resolve EH&S program gaps and deficiencies and has global responsibility for developing EH&S and environmental sustainability management strategies and directing EH&S resources across IDT. The scope of this role covers Manufacturing Sites (Coralville, IA; San Diego, CA; Raleigh, NC; Boulder, CO; Fargo, ND; Madison, WI; Leuven, Belgium and Singapore), Regional Sales, Research, Service & Warehouse facilities.

This position reports to the Vice President, Global Operations and is part of the Operations Department located in Coralville, IA; San Diego, CA; Raleigh, NC; Boulder, CO; Fargo, ND; or Madison, WI and will be an on-site role and can be based at any of these locations.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Plans, develops, and implements an EH&S and environmental sustainability management strategy, programs, policies and procedures for IDT globally. 
  • Ensures the company full compliance with applicable laws, regulations and customer requirements through the implementation of compliance programs and standard work for the management and preparation and submission of environmental reports in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and customer requirements.
  • Leads a global, facility EH&S review process to help management detect accident/health hazards and determine corrective or preventative measures and follows up to ensure measures have been implemented and are producing the desired results.
  • Ensures that the EH&S team globally remains up-to-date and conversant with relevant laws, regulations and other statutory requirements that impact EH&S across their local areas of responsibility.
  • Leads and coordinates all OpCo, Danaher and external EH&S audits of IDT Globally (e.g. FM Global), develop action plans to resolve findings, and implement countermeasures promptly and effectively.
  • Serves as the IDT Global contact for relevant government agencies, the Danaher point of contact for IDT, and the IDT representative on the Danaher EH&S Operations Leadership Council (“EH&SOLC”).
  • Provides leadership on EH&S issues, assist IDT top management in understanding business impacts of EH&S issues thereby enabling prudent allocation of resources and decision-making and assist them in identifying and implements corrective measures to improve each site’s EH&S performance against goals.

The essential requirements of the job include:

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • An ability to work under own initiative is important as is the ability to prioritize multiple workloads and tasks whilst still meeting timelines.
  • The successful candidate will have a proven track record of driving the EH&S agenda in a multi-site, global manufacturing organization, and must possess the ability to engage the workforce at all levels in the journey to build a strong EH&S culture and a collaborative team-oriented approach to EH&S management across the business.
  • Candidates must have broad EH&S experience, including working-level subject matter expertise, project/process leadership and department or functional area management.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:if applicable for role

  • Must reside in US with frequent travel to Coralville, relocation to Iowa preferred.  Travel 40-50% estimated, including 10% global travel

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

  • EH&S-related licenses, certifications and/or membership in EH&S professional associations
  • Experience with Mergers and Acquisitions (due diligence and integration) and risk and liability management is preferred. Must be able to view issues in a systematic and logical way.
  • Demonstrated experience leading Business Continuity Planning and supervision of BCP team and activities

IDT, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at .

The annual salary range for this role is $146,000- $200,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Beckman Coulter develops, manufactures and markets products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing. More than 275,000 Beckman Coulter systems operate in both Diagnostics and Life Sciences laboratories on seven continents. For more than 75 years, our products have been making a difference in peoples' lives by improving the productivity of medical professionals and scientists, supplying critical information for improving patient health and delivering trusted solutions for research and discovery.

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78,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.6 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+11.8%
Revenue
$22.2 billion
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