Global Environmental Health & Safety Director

Find what drives you on a team with a 70+ year history of being recognized for discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers protect people. Our portfolio is broad, so if your interests lie along the spectrum of Life Sciences to Industrial, you'll find a rewarding role here. Our career opportunities are as diverse as our products and they are all focused on creating better lives and a better planet. At Pall, we believe that innovation is our legacy, our privilege, and our destiny. If that resonates with you, join us!
In this critical role, The Global Environmental Health and Safety Director leads, plans, coordinates, creates, innovates, and directs the Pall Industrial Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) program. This includes compliance with EHS regulations and standards and to mitigate or eliminate EHS risks.
The Global EHS Director must have a strong ability to influence and lead associates, set direction and vision and provide support to all levels within the organization via the Danaher Business System (DBS is similar to Six Sigma / continuous improvement) to find root cause and provide sustainable solutions. This leader will connect with employees at different levels and deliver effective communications both written and verbal with emotional intelligence to handle and resolve conflicts effectively. Oversight will include prioritizing multiple demanding projects. This senior level role reports to the VP Global EHS and Facilities and provides support to Pall operations sites and functions globally including but not limited to USA, France, Germany, and England.
Core Responsibilities
- Collaborates with leadership at all levels to set EHS Excellence strategies and annual goals for manufacturing sites. Analyze performance, find opportunities, and set strategies / policy for year-over-year improvement and sustainment.
- Leads strategy, reporting and supports other EHS related daily management activities and tactics. Also handles the Global Business Continuity (BCMS) and emergency response strategy and bowler.
- Provides summary reports and visual management on the progress towards EHS goals, on site EHS activities, and any agency/regulatory inspections/violations.
- Serves as lead auditor for Pall EHS Platform audits of up to 20 + global facilities, tracks audit completion, and aids facilities to resolve action items; provides site support for Danaher Corporate EHS Compliance Audits.
- Handles the FM Global (property insurance) program tracking and recommendation execution to achieve and maintain property risk targets, including tracking and assisting on resolution of recommendations, updating FM Global MyRiskTM and verification of sustainment and credit for site level Highly Protected Risk (HPR) status.
- Assists with and provides guidance for environmental and safety regulatory reports prior to submission (Tier II, Form R, BLS, etc.); handles top level Gensuite Americas compliance calendar.
- Assists with data collection of customers EHS requirements including training, certifications, and maintenance of third party vendor assurance (ISNetworld, Ecovadis, etc.)
- Leads implementation and sustainment of 4E (JHA / FMEA) Danaher Business System (DBS) tools including development for growth (D4G) of certified Danaher 4E practitioners.; expected to earn 4E master practitioner certification in 18 months.
- Develops and leads EHS focused kaizen; runs the EHS kaizen funnel, participates in other kaizen to learn and use existing DBS tools such as 4E, Kamishibai, and Danaher EHS Risk Score improvement strategy. Ensures EHS risk is integrated into operations and support function transactional kaizen and PSP activity including 5S, SMED, Lean Conversion, Value Stream Mapping, and variation reduction.
- Develops and delivers presentations to and provides advice to operations management, individual site leadership teams and EHS professionals/staff; maintains strong working relationship with Operations BU Vice Presidents.
- Provides guidance/support to handle EHS related regulatory responses and follow-up activities towards positive outcomes that minimize regulatory and reputational risk.
- Maintains a strong matrix reporting relationship will all site EHS Managers, EHS job share roles, and other EHS subject matter authorities including JAPAC EHS Director, Global Director Facilities & Sustainability, and other operations and functional leaders.
- Provides feedback, coaching, and guidance for performance appraisals, promotions, hiring, development plans for site level EHS staff to ensure engagement and strong EHS talent succession funnel including coordination of annual EHS professional development events and activities.
- Demonstrates and applies EHS regulations and standards and uses guidelines and industry ideal practices to drive continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications:
- Fifteen or more years providing EHS leadership for a manufacturing environment.
- Industrial, aerospace, oil & gas, food & beverage, medical device, or pharmaceutical industry is required.
- Five plus years current experience in a leadership or senior advisory role for EHS.
- Must have had extensive EHS oversight for multiple manufacturing locations globally.
- Excellent time management skills with an ability to understand key achievements, goals, and objectives while leading groups of internal and external resources to meet project goals.
- Practiced DBS and or Six Sigma / Kaizen business methodology.
- Ability to put strategy to action and influence across various functions and levels within the organization.
- Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) with focus in Environmental Management & Sustainability, Occupational Safety & Health Management, Industrial Hygiene, or other related science/engineering degree (required). Master's degree in business (MBA) or related science or engineering (MS/MA) field of study (preferred).
- Preferred certifications/designations: Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)
- Ability to work remote and travel up to 40% including international travel.
- Must have valid passport or ability to obtain.
- Ability to stand and sit for extended periods of time, climb ladders and stairways and lift up to 30 lbs.
- This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services. U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, protected person status, or U.S. Government export authorization is required. Any offer of employment is contingent upon Pall obtaining the necessary employment visa and export authorization, including, if required, an export license from the applicable U.S. government agency. #LI-SB2
Pall Corporation is proud to be part of the Danaher global family of more than 20 operating companies, driving meaningful innovation in some of today's most dynamic, growing industries. Danaher is a global science & technology innovator committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges and improve quality of life worldwide. Our world-class brands are leaders in some of the most demanding and attractive industries, including life sciences, medical diagnostics, dental, environmental and applied solutions. Our globally diverse team of 71,000 associates is united by a common culture and operating system, the Danaher Business System, which serves as our competitive advantage. We generated $19.9B in revenue last year. We are ranked #162 on the Fortune 500 and our stock has outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 5,200% over 25 years.
At Danaher, you can build a career in a way no other company can duplicate. Our brands allow us to offer dynamic careers across multiple industries. We're innovative, fast-paced, results-oriented, and we win. We need talented people to keep winning. Here you'll learn how DBS is used to shape strategy, focus execution, align our people, and create value for customers and shareholders. Come join our winning team.
Danaher is committed to competitive compensation that typically has key components including base salary, variable annual incentive compensation based on personal and company performance, and long-term incentive.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "EEO is the Law" poster is available at: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.
Accommodations
Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should call 202-419-7762 or e-mail applyassistance@danaher.com to request accommodation.
Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are equal opportunity employers that evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "EEO is the Law" poster is available here (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf) .