Position Summary:The Senior Director of Safety provides strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for enterprise-wide health, safety, across a multi-site logistics, warehousing, transportation, and distribution network. This role is responsible for designing and executing a comprehensive safety management system aimed at minimizing workplace hazards, and executing broader Health and Safety strategy, ensuring regulatory compliance, driving operational excellence, reducing enterprise risk, improving sustainability performance, and strengthening ESG reporting and CSR initiatives limited to Health and Safety responsibilities. The Senior Director partners closely with executive leadership, operations, engineering, facilities, procurement, HR, transportation, and customers to improve safety performance, and drive continuous improvement across the business. This role directly influences operational performance, regulatory compliance, customer confidence, ESG credibility, and long-term enterprise value.
Your role on the team:- Design, author, and execute the enterprise-wide strategies aligned with business growth.
- Serve as the chief internal advisor to executive leadership on safety risk, cost volatility, and long term enterprise value.
- Establish and authorize enterprise-wide health and safety standards, policies, procedures, and governance frameworks across a multi-site logistics, warehousing, and transportation network.
- Additional Expectations: The position requires 40-50% travel for site visits, audits, customer meetings, incident reviews, and strategic initiatives
- Cross-Functional Partnerships: Partner with Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Procurement, HR, and Transportation to integrate Health and Safety into daily business decisions.
- Ensure Health and Safety representation, due diligence, and management of change (MOC) during site start-ups, facility expansions, customer implementations, automation/capital projects, and acquisitions.
- Commercial Confidence: Align operational safety benchmarks with customer expectations to protect brand reputation and elevate customer confidence.
- Safety Management Systems: Develop and continuously improve end-to-end safety programs covering material handling equipment (MHE), forklift/PIT safety, dock safety, ergonomics, contractor safety, hazard communication, and emergency response.
- Incident Prevention Strategy: Drive an aggressive incident prevention culture to continuously reduce injury frequency, severity, and associated workers' compensation costs.
- Investigation & CAPA Controls: Oversee enterprise incident reporting, root cause analysis (RCA), and learning reviews for serious injuries or near misses, ensuring sustainable corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Multi-Agency Compliance: Secure compliance and manage relationships with external regulatory bodies under OSHA guidelines Audit Governance: Lead rigorous internal health and safety inspections and compliance audits, proactively monitoring regulatory changes to implement required operational adjustments
- Matrixed Team Leadership: Direct, coach, and build succession planning for a high-performance regional team (including Regional EHS Directors, Sustainability Managers, Environmental/Safety Managers, Transportation Safety Managers, and EHS Coordinators).
- Capability Building: Lead training initiatives to improve organizational competency in safety leadership, hazard recognition, forklift certification, and reporting fundamentals. Behavioral Accountability: Drive behavioral change toward operational discipline, promoting employee engagement, ownership, and accountability at all leadership levels.
- Establish enterprise scorecards, dashboards, and KPI tracking systems to present accurate data collection, recordkeeping, and performance trends to executive leadership
- Own data performance across three distinct indices: Safety KPIs: TRIR, DART, Lost Time Incident Rate, Severity Rate, Workers' Comp Costs, Near Miss Rates, CAPA Closure Rates, and Audit Scores.
What you need:- Bachelor's degree in Environmental, Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or related field required.
- Master's degree preferred.
- 8-10+ years of progressive EHS leadership experience.
- 5+ years leading multi-site EHS programs.
- Strong experience in high-volume, fast-paced operational environments.
- Experience supporting customer-facing logistics operations preferred.
- Experience leading ESG, sustainability, or decarbonization initiatives preferred.
- Expert-level command of OSHA, EPA, and DOT/FMCSA frameworks encompassing warehouse/transportation safety, industrial hygiene, root cause analysis, risk assessments, incident investigation, CAPA systems, and workers' compensation management; preferred certifications include CSP, CIH, CHMM, or Six Sigma.
What you gain from joining our team: - Access wages early with the Rain financial wellness app.
- Free telemedical access to doctors and therapists through FirstStop Health available first day of employment!
- Health, dental, and vision insurance after 30 days of employment
- 401k match
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Access to career development, employee resource groups, and mentorship programs
- Employee discounts
- Access to employee perks like fitness class discounts and free access to a relaxation and meditation app
- Free financial wellness programs
- Daycare discount program
- Opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community
- + more!
Join our Team!- Visit our website at workatGEODIS.com and chat with our virtual recruiter, Sophie, to fast-track your way to an interview.
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- Text DELIVER to 88300 to apply!
