Director - Compliance, Quality & Environmental Health & Safety

Director - Compliance, Quality & Environmental Health & Safety

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The Director, Compliance, Quality & Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) is a senior enterprise leadership role responsible for leading the organization’s quality, regulatory compliance, governance, and environmental health and safety programs. The role establishes the strategy, systems, standards, and controls necessary to ensure products, services, facilities, and business processes consistently meet regulatory requirements, industry standards, client expectations, and internal performance objectives.
This position serves as the enterprise authority for Quality Management Systems (QMS), regulatory compliance, inspection and audit readiness, risk management, and continuous improvement. The Director is accountable for maintaining compliance with applicable regulations and standards, including FDA, DEA, NABP, ISO, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), OSHA, and other federal, state, and local requirements. The role ensures organizational readiness for regulatory inspections, certification audits, customer assessments, and compliance reviews while driving sustainable corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) and operational excellence initiatives.
The Director partners closely with executive leadership, operations, engineering, client services, and facility management teams to proactively identify risks, strengthen controls, ensure business continuity, and foster a culture of quality, compliance, safety, and accountability across the enterprise.

Quality Management Systems & Regulatory Governance

• Lead and improve the enterprise QMS for ISO and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain governance for FDA, DEA, NABP, GMP, ISO, and other applicable regulations.
• Oversee organization-wide quality and compliance policies, standards, and controls.
• Track regulatory changes and implement requirements promptly.
• Ensure operations follow documented quality and compliance standards.
• Oversee regulatory licenses, certifications, permits, and registrations.
• Represent the organization with regulators, auditors, certification bodies, and clients.
  Inspection, Audit & Certification Readiness
• Maintain continuous readiness for regulatory, certification, customer, and third-party audits.
• Direct internal audits, compliance reviews, and management reviews.
• Lead FDA, DEA, NABP, ISO, customer, and other audits and inspections.
• Ensure timely closure of findings, observations, nonconformances, and commitments.
• Report audit performance, compliance status, and emerging risks to executives.
  Compliance Risk Management & CAPA Leadership
• Lead root cause investigations and CAPA programs.
• Resolve findings from audits, inspections, incidents, complaints, and quality events.
• Implement sustainable actions that address systemic issues and prevent recurrence.
• Escalate material compliance risks and support executive decisions.
• Monitor compliance, quality, and risk indicators for trends and opportunities.
• Oversee change, deviation, and document control processes.
• Support business continuity through risk assessment and controls.
  Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) & Operational Quality
• Oversee GMP compliance and related quality programs.
• Ensure facilities, processes, documentation,…