Are you a Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) leader who excels at balancing strategic program management with active, daily engagement on the lab floor? We are seeking a technical Director of SHE, Facilities & Security to lead our site's resilience, regulatory compliance, and workplace safety culture.

In this role, you will bridge site-level resilience with corporate strategy, guiding a small, dedicated team while working directly alongside our leadership, scientists, and facility staff to maintain a safe, resilient, and compliant research environment.

If you bring 12+ years of progressive operational leadership in life sciences and a track record of driving business-aligned safety and facilities programs, we invite you to lead our team.

The Opportunity

• Strategic & Regulatory Leadership: Translate global directives, quality standards, and national/international regulations (OSHA, EPA, DOT, REACH, NFPA) into seamless, business-enabling local site policies.

• Executive Collaboration & Business Alignment: Represent SHE on site leadership teams and committees to influence corporate policy, align cross-functional business units, and support site expansion and product development initiatives.

• Facilities & Critical Infrastructure Management: Oversee end-to-end site maintenance, facilities engineering, and capital projects while ensuring 100% operational readiness of critical power systems, emergency generators, and monitoring solutions.

• Business Continuity & Incident Command: Drive site-wide disaster recovery frameworks, serving as the primary Safety Officer and Incident Commander during facility disruptions, environmental events, and emergencies.

• Comprehensive SHE Portfolio Ownership: Lead a high-complexity safety portfolio, including industrial hygiene, biosafety (BSL 1 & 2), chemical safety assessments, exposure monitoring, dangerous goods logistics, and hazardous waste management for a Large Quantity Generator.

• Inspection Readiness & Regulatory Governance: Direct all official interactions, reporting, and audits with municipal, federal, and international regulatory bodies to ensure the site maintains perpetual "inspection readiness."

• Team Leadership & Capability Building: Direct, mentor, and develop a small high-performing, team fostering technical growth, and driving a proactive safety culture.

Who You Are

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Physical/Life Sciences, Safety Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or a related field (Master’s degree strongly preferred).

• Professional Credentials: Professional certification highly preferred (e.g., Certified Safety Professional [CSP], Certified Industrial Hygienist [CIH], or Professional Engineer [PE]).

• Operational Leadership: 12+ years of progressive operational management experience within diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or high-complexity industrial environments.

• Management Expertise: 5+ years of direct people management experience leading cross-functional teams, managing matrixed stakeholders, and developing organizational capability.

• Technical & Regulatory Mastery: Deep expertise in regulatory analysis, Management of Change (MOC), hazard identification, property loss control, and building code/safety standards.

• Emergency Response Readiness: Demonstrated capability to command critical incidents (chemical spills, major power outages) with the flexibility for executive escalation and after-hours response.

• Strategic Business Acumen: Proven ability to translate complex technical risks into clear executive insights, balance regulatory requirements with business velocity, and lead continuous improvement initiatives.

This position is not eligible for relocation.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Washington is $129,500 - $240,500 USD Annual.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.