Director - Environmental, Health, Safety, Quaility Systems and Governance

Director - Environmental, Health, Safety, Quality Systems and Governance

Job Category: Health, Safety & Environmental Requisition Number: DIREC001774

Full-Time Hybrid CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO 63701, USA +2 more locations

Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Leadership
  • Ensure enterprise-wide compliance with OSHA, EPA, DOT, and applicable FDA regulatory requirements
  • Maintain an inspection-ready compliance posture across all sites
  • Monitor and interpret regulatory changes; implement proactive updates to policies and systems
  • Strengthen preventive controls and risk management practices across operations
• Management of Change (MOC) Governance
  • Design, implement, and govern a formal, risk-based MOC program across the enterprise
  • Serve as the enterprise owner for MOC governance across EHS and select Quality systems
  • Ensure robust risk assessment, approval workflows, and documented effectiveness verification
  • Monitor MOC performance metrics and drive improvements to prevent repeat issues
• EHS & Enterprise Systems Governance
  • Own and continuously improve enterprise EHS systems, including incident management, compliance tracking, audits, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and corrective actions
  • Ensure data integrity, KPI transparency, and consistent executive reporting
  • Integrate MOC, CAPA, audit, and corrective action workflows into digital platforms
  • Support standardization and governance of enterprise EHSQ metrics
• Industrial Hygiene & Ergonomics
  • Lead development and execution of enterprise Industrial Hygiene strategy, including exposure monitoring and chemical risk assessment
  • Oversee ergonomic risk assessment and injury prevention programs across manufacturing, R&D, and office environments
  • Implement engineering and administrative controls to mitigate risks related to chemical exposure, dust, noise, and repetitive motion
  • Drive proactive risk reduction initiatives aligned with operational realities
• Training & Workforce Capability
  • Develop and implement a structured EHS training framework aligned with regulatory requirements and operational risks
  • Deliver leadership and operator training programs focused on compliance, hazard recognition, and prevention
  • Measure training effectiveness and address capability gaps
  • Reinforce workforce understanding of quality, operational discipline, and preventive controls
• EHS Culture & Operational Discipline
  • Lead enterprise-wide EHS culture initiatives to improve awareness, accountability, and risk ownership
  • Drive behavioral safety programs and strengthen leadership engagement in EHS performance
  • Promote consistent event review and learning processes across functions
  • Improve operational discipline to reduce variability and prevent incidents
• Quality Systems Governance (Partnership with Quality)
  • Partner with Quality leadership to align governance processes across complaints, CAPA, audits, and KPI reporting
  • Support visibility and tracking of key Quality metrics, including complaint trends, repeat events, Right First Time (RFT), and Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
  • Contribute to systemic root cause analysis and corrective action effectiveness
  • Support supplier and contract manufacturing governance where EHS or operational risk intersects
• Executive Reporting & Enterprise Governance
  • Provide executive-level reporting on compliance status, risk exposure, and performance metrics
  • Track and communicate enterprise KPIs, including incident rates, audit findings, complaint recurrence, MOC effectiveness, and CAPA closure
  • Support structured governance reviews and leadership accountability processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental health & safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, or related field
• 12+ years of progressive EHS leadership experience in regulated manufacturing environments
• Strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, and applicable FDA regulations
• Proven experience designing and governing Management of Change (MOC) programs
• Demonstrated success implementing and managing enterprise EHS systems and governance frameworks
• Experience with Quality Management Systems (CAPA, audits, complaints, KPI governance)
• Strong analytical, reporting, and executive communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating within FDA-regulated environments
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) required; Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) preferred
• Experience leading multi-site or global EHS programs
• Spanish language proficiency

Leadership Profile & Success Factors

• Enterprise thinker with the ability to balance strategic governance and practical execution
• Strong cross-functional leader able to influence Manufacturing, R&D, Quality, and Commercial teams
• Systems-oriented mindset with focus on integration, standardization, and scalability
• Data-driven decision maker with strong problem-solving and root cause analysis capability
• Effective communicator with executive presence and credibility across all levels
• Change agent capable of strengthening governance, discipline, and risk ownership

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are the representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel, and/or crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten/twenty pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty/fifty pounds, and rarely lift and/or move more than twenty-five/hundred pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Verdesian Life Sciences is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex, and sexual orientation.

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