Director, Environmental Health & Safety Rochester, NY

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Job Title:

Director, Environmental Health & Safety Job Category:
General Management Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
None Employee Type:
Regular Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Local *
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* The Opportunity:

** The Executive Director, Manufacturing Environmental Health & Safety is the enterprise-level executive accountable for safety and environmental performance exclusively across the organization's manufacturing sites. This role owns the strategy, governance, and leadership engagement model required to drive a world-class safety culture, one where site and manufacturing leadership visibly own safety outcomes, not just the EHS function.  This leader is measured on moving the manufacturing network toward world-class safety performance (TRIR, LTIR, severity rate, and leading-indicator engagement metrics) through disciplined management systems, rigorous incident investigation and prevention, and a leadership engagement cadence that puts plant managers, operations leaders, and front-line supervisors at the center of the safety culture — not on the sidelines of it.  

This is a highly visible, enterprise-scope executive role for a safety leader who believes world-class safety performance is built through leadership behavior, not paperwork. The successful candidate will combine deep EHS technical expertise with the ability to influence operations leaders and personally engage when the manufacturing network needs it most.
** Responsibilities:
**** Safety Culture & Leadership Engagement
*** Design and lead an enterprise leadership engagement model that puts plant managers, operations directors, and front-line supervisors visibly and personally in the safety loop — structured safety walks, leader-led toolbox talks, gemba/floor engagement, and visible accountability for site safety performance.
* Build the behavior-based safety programs and observation systems needed to shift the culture from compliance-driven to ownership-driven at every level of the manufacturing organization.
* Coach and hold site leadership accountable for safety leadership behaviors, using engagement and perception survey data alongside lagging metrics to gauge culture maturity site by site.
* Champion recognition and escalation mechanisms that reinforce safe behavior and rapidly surface at-risk conditions before they become incidents.  
** EHS Management Systems & Governance
*** Own the enterprise EHS management system across all manufacturing sites, ensuring consistent policy, standard work, and governance cadence regardless of site size or maturity.
* Establish a maturity model and site assessment/audit methodology for manufacturing EHS, benchmarking sites against internal targets and external world-class safety standards.
* Ensure the management system aligns with and supports certification to recognized standards (e.g., ISO 45001, ISO 14001) and applicable OSHA/EPA and state regulatory frameworks, where applicable.
* Partner with Manufacturing Excellence and Site Manufacturing leadership so safety standard work is embedded directly into production standard work, not layered on as a separate system.  
** Risk Reduction, Compliance & Environmental Performance
*** Drive proactive hazard identification and risk reduction across manufacturing processes, equipment, and facilities, prioritizing engineering controls ahead of administrative controls or PPE.
* Own environmental compliance for manufacturing operations, including permitting, waste management, emissions, and environmental reporting obligations tied to production processes.
* Ensure industrial hygiene programs…