Global EHS Director

The Role

Position Title:

Global EH&S Director

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Deerfield Position Summary Establish, implement, and audit the company’s global EH&S strategy, systems, and standards.

Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, the Global EH&S Director works closely with site leadership and corporate functions to ensure strong regulatory compliance, effective management of high-hazard chemical manufacturing risks, and continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance.

A critical component of the role is strengthening the organization’s safety approach beyond regulatory compliance toward a proactive, prevention-focused safety culture. The successful candidate will have meaningful experience implementing behavior-based safety (BBS) programs and building leadership and employee ownership of safety.

The position requires significant practical experience with OSHA and EPA regulations, preferably gained within chemical, specialty chemical, petrochemical, refining, or other high-hazard manufacturing environments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Develop and implement a global EH&S strategy aligned with the company’s operational and business objectives, including EH&S review of capital projects, design standards, and acquisitions.

Establish global EH&S policies, standards, management systems, metrics, and expectations, aligned with recognized frameworks such as Responsible Care/RC14001 and ISO 14001/45001, while ensuring effective execution at the site level.

Serve as the principal EH&S advisor to the COO and senior leadership team regarding significant safety, environmental, regulatory, and operational risks.

Establish clear accountability and decision rights for EH&S performance throughout the organization, from senior leadership through plant management, supervisors, and frontline employees.

Develop leading and lagging EH&S indicators (for example, TRIR/DART process safety event rates, notices of violation, corrective-action closure, and near-miss reporting) and provide regular performance and risk reporting to the COO and executive leadership, including significant risks, compliance gaps, overdue corrective actions, and emerging regulatory issues.

Safety Culture & Behavior-Based Safety Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive behavior-based safety program across manufacturing locations.

Build a safety culture in which employees actively identify hazards, report near misses, intervene when unsafe behaviors or conditions are observed, and participate in improving workplace safety.

Define leadership expectations for visible safety leadership, including management safety observations, employee engagement, field presence, and corrective-action follow-through, and implement safety observation and feedback processes that identify at-risk behaviors and reinforce safe behaviors.

Use BBS data, near-miss information, incident trends, and leading indicators to identify systemic risks and improvement opportunities, and ensure that behavioral safety complements, and never substitutes for, strong engineering controls, process safety systems, operating discipline, and regulatory compliance.

Occupational Safety and OSHA Compliance Provide corporate leadership and technical expertise regarding OSHA regulations, in particular PSM and injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements (29 CFR 1904).Ensure effective programs covering all life-critical procedures and core occupational safety requirements.

Process Safety Provide leadership for process safety management across chemical manufacturing operations, including compliance with OSHA PSM (29 CFR ) and EPA Risk Management Program (RMP, 40 CFR Part 68) requirements.

Ensure appropriate implementation of PSM and RMP program…