Director – SHE , Workplace & Capital

Director – SHE people, Workplace & Capital

Macclesfield

At AstraZeneca, we are driven by our commitment to deliver accelerated growth and to make people's lives better. We thrive in our often intense and ambiguous environment, seeking out new challenges and working towards new solutions. We are part of an inclusive and giving community, supporting each other on our journeys. We are leading the way in delivering Lean processes that drive greater efficiency and speed.

Sustainable practices are at the heart of what we do, ensuring we manage our environmental impact across all our activities and products.

We are now looking for a Director – SHE people, Workplace & Capital to join the team!

To hold the integrated Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) People, Workplace and Capital pillar of the Macclesfield Campus. The role owns the industrial hygiene programme, occupational health and wellbeing, the regulator-facing environmental and chemical compliance estate, and the SHE governance of the Campus capital investment portfolio — including engineering projects, construction activity, and infrastructure change. The role provides Director-level accountability for the people-facing dimensions of SHE culture, the workplace exposure environment, and the safe delivery of capital change across the site.

• Hold named accountability for RIDDOR notifications, EA Environmental Permit breach notifications, Home Office Controlled Drugs licence administration, and DGSA statutory function (delegated to the SHE Regulated Operations Specialist).
• Own the Campus capital project SHE interface, including CDM Principal Designer / Principal Contractor governance for all engineering and construction investments, F10 notification governance, and pre-commissioning SHE assurance. Works closely with the Responsible Engineer for Construction Safety
• Lead and develop a team of 4 Subject Matter Experts (SME) and Lead roles, with clear annual objectives, capability development plans, and succession pipeline for each role.
• Govern the Campus industrial hygiene programme, including exposure monitoring strategy, exposure registers, control-hierarchy decisions.
• Govern the consolidated regulator-facing environmental and dangerous goods estate including EA Environmental Permit, trade effluent consent, borehole abstraction licence, REACH, Home Office Controlled Drugs.
• Champion the people-facing dimensions of SHE culture — sponsor the site-wide behavioural safety strategy, Hearts and Minds programme, Genba presence, wellbeing initiatives, mental-health support, and psychosocial-safety strategy.
• Sponsor the Campus leadership capability programme — felt leadership, safety conversations, and Genba quality — in collaboration with pillar Director peers.
• Sponsor the deployment of AI process-driven systems within the pillar — instrumented compliance register, statutory-clock dashboards, permit lifecycle workflows, and audit-evidence assembly.
• Represent the pillar at senior leadership teams and external forums including HSE OH inspectorate, EA regional, and Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service for workplace and capital project matters.
• Ensure qualified occupational hygienist competence is maintained on the Campus with a live succession plan (recognising the depth of the potent-compound IH capability).
• Active contribution to the Senior Director SHE's integrated annual plan; cross-pillar collaboration with Process Safety on capital project SHE and with SHE Management Systems on audit response.
• AZ Pharma SHE peer-network participation on occupational health, industrial hygiene, and workplace and capital project SHE topics.
• Internal advice to HR Business Partner on disability, reasonable-adjustment cases, and workplace…