Global Director Security, Health & Safety

What makes this a great opportunity?

Industry-leading spirits company with global manufacturing, distribution, and brand recognition, is seeking a Global Director of Security, Health & Safety (SHS), to provide strategic direction, technical consultation, and thought leadership to drive continual improvement and the pursuit of leading practices for the management of SHS. This role will be primarily focused on supporting SHS within the Global Supply Chain function, with secondary support provided to protect all employees globally.

The ideal candidate will possess: (1) experience leading the SHS function in a process manufacturing company of appropriate size, structure, and complexity; (2) experience creating, implementing, and leading programs, policies, standards and performance expectations for SHS Management, Compliance and Assurance, Risk Management, and Continuous Improvement; (3) experience increasing adoption of SHS principles and safe work practices in similar environments; and (4) proven ability to operate in a global, matrixed corporate and manufacturing environment.

The Global Director of Security, Health & Safety will be responsible to establish and coordinate SHS programs across all locations globally. This role will ensure that the company’s activities are conducted while maintaining high SHS standards. The Global Director of Security, Health & Safety is also responsible to ensure that all incidents are thoroughly investigated, reported to the corresponding organizations, and that corrective and preventive risk management measures are established to avoid reoccurrence. This role will be responsible for strategies, policies, systems, and SHS talent to ensure that supply chain facilities are built and operated in full compliance to current  standards and will work to raise the standards.

Role Responsibilities

• Functional Leadership. Provides overall leadership to the SHS function, including leading the enhancement and deployment of company SHS vision and strategy globally. Leads development of SHS policies, procedures, systems, and tools and guides development of operating plans and budgets. Builds global SHS talent network, including the central and shared resource model for Global H&S Management. Leads communications regarding SHS matters, promoting a zero-injury culture, free of recognized hazards, promoting safe work behaviors and managing the safety of employees as a business priority. Provides executive leadership to company Safety Committees. Partners with Lean functional leaders to integrate SHS systems within Lean processes. Partners with Environmental functional leaders in the development and implementation of audits. Represents the company at SHS industry and benchmarking groups and activities.
• Health and Safety Management. Establishes safety and health management systems for safe work practices, personal protection, industrial hygiene, hazard identification and control, injury management, and corrective action resolution. Ensures all operating units are registered to OHSA 18001 as well as shared responsibility for the management of the Integrated Management System. Conducts regular visits to the sites to ensure the management systems are fully utilized in the spirit intended with engagement and ownership down to the operator / supervisor level. Establishes key safety metrics (both leading and lagging) and performance targets and communicates with site and corporate stakeholders. Oversees SHS review process for all capital projects to ensure regulatory compliance, property protection and life safety risks are adequately managed prior to submittal for approval and in execution.
• Compliance and Assurance. Manages the SHS compliance audit process to assure appropriate governance. This includes managing external consultants, developing audit protocol, scheduling routine and risk-based audits, distributing reports, monitoring and report findings. Implements governance process to ensure findings are closed out in a timely manner. Maintains and develops Safety Data Sheets to SHS standard at all sites. Ensures proper regulatory records are kept and reports/notifications are made as required. Monitors regulatory arena for new/changing regulations and rulemaking; adjusts programs/procedures accordingly. Takes an active leadership role in the resolution of potential SHS compliance violations while working cooperatively with legal counsel on related litigation.
• Risk Management. Works collaboratively with Risk Management and sites on the development and deployment of loss prevention strategies to achieve highly protected risk status monitoring and reporting risk reduction recommendations. Ensures site and support personnel follow the major incident management (MIM) process, including the use of FACTS tool to manage incidents effectively. Ensures every recordable injury and serious near misses are thoroughly investigated, learnings shared globally and follow up with site SHS leaders to validate implementation of learnings. Serves as technical resource for incident investigation and causal factor/root cause analysis, including the leading of investigations.
• Continuous Improvement. Delivers results through influence and communicating effectively with clients and practical integration of health and safety with business practices. Independently take actions to drive improvement in SHS performance and building a robust sustainable SHS culture companywide. Ensures the provision of training on health and safety topics and ensures that SHS-related training is conducted as required or needed.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess: (1) experience leading the Security, Health & Safety function in a process manufacturing company of appropriate size, structure, and complexity; (2) experience creating, implementing, and leading programs, policies, standards and performance expectations for SHS Management, Compliance and Assurance, Risk Management, and Continuous Improvement; (3) experience increasing adoption of SHS principles and safe work practices in similar environments; and (4) proven ability to operate in a global, matrixed corporate and manufacturing environment.

Key Attributes
• 10+ years of SHS leadership experience in a multi-site, process manufacturing or CPG manufacturing environment, ideally in the beverage alcohol industry.
• Experience creating, implementing, and leading programs, policies, standards and performance expectations for:
- SHS Management, including safe work practices, behavioral-based programs, personal protection, industrial hygiene, hazard identification and control, injury management, corrective action resolution, and process and physical safety systems.
- Compliance and Assurance, including auditing, record keeping, permitting, reporting and notifications, related regulatory and compliance activities, and monitoring of the regulatory environment.
- Risk Management, including security, risk identification and mitigation, incident investigation, and root cause analyses.
- Continuous Improvement, including SHS training programs (regulatory, awareness, and competency) and Lean, Six Sigma or other continuous improvement practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal, state, and local SHS regulations, policies, ordinances, and rules. Ability to translate these issues into potential global implications on the business.
• Experience leading SHS audits, preferably as an OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor an Internal Auditor.
• Experience increasing the adoption of SHS principles and safe work practices in similar environments. Change agent who has a track record of improving health and safety performance in matrixed business environments.
• Proficient in analytical techniques related to SHS, including statistical analysis of information to facilitate requisite correspondence, permitting, monitoring, reporting, etc.
• Excellent research and communication skills at all levels of the organization, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external audiences and regulatory bodies.
• A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate themself and others; a natural bias for action and ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Bias towards a hands-on approach; ability to operate in a global matrixed corporate and manufacturing environment; comfortable engaging across the organization, from front-line to executive leadership; ability to use influence to drive results.

Other Qualifications
• Bachelor degree in safety, engineering, operations, business, or related discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• Skilled in Lean or other Continuous Improvement practices; strong preference for minimum Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent.  Ideally experienced with the TRACC Operational Excellence program.
• Fluent in English.  Bi-lingual in Spanish and/or Japanese is ideal.
• Fluent in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally to company facilities as required, up to 50%. Open to working a flexible schedule and extended hours as necessary.
• Must have valid driver’s license and passport.