Director, Global Environmental Health & Safety

The Director of Global Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) will be responsible for the development of the Impossible Foods EH&S program worldwide, with a charter and vision that supports employee safety, environmental stewardship, and occupational health. This role reports to the Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety, Global Security. The Global Environmental Health and Safety Director designs, develops, authors, and manages company EHS policies, standards, programs and processes to a) ensure global and regional compliance with applicable local, regional, national and federal EHS regulations, directives and standards; and b) mitigate, prevent or control EHS risks arising from company operations and business activities

You Will

Monitor, interpret, and assess existing or emerging EHS laws, regulations, regulatory policy, and industry practices, determine operational and business impacts and develop, integrate and execute global EHS strategies, policies, programs, procedures, standards, training, processes and actions throughout the company to effectively manage applicable or relevant requirements.
Design, develop, author and sustain the programs, procedures, processes and systems to global and geographical and regional compliance with EHS law.
Perform EHS compliance applicability reviews and EHS risk assessments and implement effective programs, procedures, processes and systems to ensure regulatory compliance and protect employees, communities and the environment.
Develop, align and implement long-term EHS strategies and annual or short term EHS action plans, projects or initiatives that effectively manages EHS compliance and risk mitigation objectives with business and operational needs, operating plans, capital planning, resource staffing and budgeting.
Developing, integrating and executing policies, programs, procedures, standards, training, processes and actions throughout the business organization to drive EHS vision, mission, policy and strategies.
Functions in a leadership role regarding government agency enforcement actions, regulatory proposals, permitting issues and negotiations, EHS technical, engineering, and science support, assessment and control of EHS issues arising from operational processes, supply-chain, equipment, and materials.
Perform audits and reviews to identify systemic EHS management gaps, develop corrective measures and implement solutions to sustain compliance with EHS law and company EHS strategies, policies or standards.
Leverage lessons learned and develop continuous improvement EHS programs.
Provide EHS service, solutions, programs, best practices and technical guidance to business management and support functions to effectively and efficiently manage compliance assurance and EHS risk mitigation.
Manage enterprise-wide impact of EHS incident investigations to determine and implement root cause corrective actions.
Collect, measure and analyze regional and site EHS metrics and KPI performances, to discover trends for continuous improvement or corrective measures.
Perform management reviews and report on EHS performance and tactical and strategic improvement planning.
Partner and collaborate with the business and support functions, to influence and manage EHS resources and projects and business decisions.
Design, develop, implement, execute and sustain company-wide employee safety and injury prevention programs.
Design, develop, implement, execute and sustain company-wide environmental permit management and pollution prevention programs.
Manage regulatory agency and external stakeholder EHS activities, including reporting, visits, or inspections.
Work collaboratively with Employment Legal Counsel, Human Resources, Facilities, and IT teams to develop cross functional risk management policy and processes that protect IF.

You Have

10+ years' experience in an EHS programs, operations or engineering function within Fortune 500 multi-national companies.
5+ years' experience managing global EHS policies, standards, programs, or procedures.
3+ years' experience in ISO14001, ISO 45001 or similar accredited EHS management systems.
Knowledge of global and US-based EHS legal requirements (i.e. Regulations, Codes, Standards, Directives, and Administrative Policies) and provide regulatory, technical and EHS engineering knowledge, and EHS management systems.
Experience with communication, presenting proposed plans and results to management, and influencing leadership.
Experience communicating with leadership.
Experience developing and implementing goals and strategies based on organization goals.