Director Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Purpose and Scope

The Director Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) provides enterprise leadership and strategic direction for Tolmar's EHS programs across all company locations. This position establishes the company's EHS strategy, governance, policies, standards, management systems, and performance expectations; advises senior leadership on material EHS risks and priorities; ensures compliance with applicable regulatory and governmental requirements; and leads continuous improvement to protect employees, support operational continuity, and advance Tolmar's business objectives.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Establish and lead Tolmar's enterprise EHS strategy, culture, governance model, and multi-year priorities in alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational risk.
• Direct EHS programs and responsibilities across all Tolmar facilities, establishing consistent standards while accounting for site-specific operations, risks, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish enterprise EHS performance measures, goals, and management-review processes, including leading and lagging indicators for incidents, OSHA recordables, Workers' Compensation, environmental performance, audits, risk reduction, and corrective actions.
• Serve as the senior EHS advisor to executive and site leadership, translating regulatory, operational, and emerging EHS risks into clear business recommendations and priorities.
• Provide senior leadership with regular reporting on EHS performance, trends, material risks, regulatory developments, resource needs, and strategic improvement plans.
• Establish the enterprise EHS training strategy and governance framework, ensuring required programs are effective, current, and compliant with OSHA, EPA, DOT, DHS, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Lead, develop, and organize the EHS function, including workforce planning, role clarity, performance expectations, succession planning, capability development, and effective deployment of internal and external resources.
• Sponsor and direct cross-functional EHS risk-reduction and continuous-improvement initiatives, ensuring significant risks and recurring trends are addressed through sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Manage the industrial hygiene program, including monitoring for hazards such as noise, chemical and physical hazard exposures.
• Manage environmental compliance issues including air, wastewater and hazardous waste management, proactively driving improvement projects.
• Active member of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning and response team.
• Provide executive oversight of emergency preparedness and response programs, including organizational readiness, crisis coordination, drills, training, external-agency relationships, and integration with business-continuity planning.
• Provide strategic oversight of the Workers' Compensation program, including governance, claims strategy, performance trends, risk-reduction priorities, and coordination with Human Resources, management, insurance carriers, and service providers.
• Direct EHS planning and risk management for site expansions, construction activities, contractor programs, capital projects, and new or modified facilities, processes, and equipment.
• Manage all multi-matrix environmental permits.
• Maintain library of Tolmar Material Safety Data Sheets and updates associated with current and new products.
• Serve as liaison with local and state government agencies regarding EHS issues.
• Lead EHS input into capital planning and investment decisions, ensuring regulatory, employee-safety, environmental, and operational-risk considerations are incorporated into project scope and prioritization.
• Develop criteria and process for evaluating APIs; classifying APIs into bands for establishing appropriate barrier devices, handling requirements and PPE; and establish occupational exposure limits (OEL) for APIs in research, laboratories and manufacturing.
• Manage compliance with DEA license for R&D storage & testing of controlled substances.
• Participate in facility and new equipment design reviews to ensure that all environmental health and safety requirements and design standards are identified.
• Perform EHS relevant/EHS required permitting activity for these projects.
• Partner with engineering staff (project, packaging, process) to provide EHS guidance for projects including User Requirement Specification (URS) development.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of all applicable EHS regulations.
• Support medical program for manufacturing and lab personnel.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated enterprise leadership across complex EHS disciplines, with the judgment and executive presence to influence priorities and decisions in a matrixed, multi-site organization.
• Proven track record of establishing and executing enterprise EHS strategies, management systems, governance, and performance-improvement programs across multiple locations or business units.
• Strong experience in developing and integrating EHS design and operational requirements into facility, equipment and product design.
• Strong knowledge of EPA, OSHA, DOT, DHS, CDPHE and local environmental, safety and health regulations.
• Experience with VPP, OHSAS 18001, ISO14001, or 45001 management systems.
• Strong knowledge of Workers' Compensation regulations and associated processes.
• Understanding and experience working in a cGMP manufacturing environment.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex risks, options, and recommendations to senior leadership and regulatory authorities.
• Ability to design and carry out complex industrial hygiene monitoring in a manufacturing and laboratory environment.
• Knowledge of EHS risk assessment processes, safety systems analysis, job safety assessments.
• Ability to interpret and implement EHS construction requirements (Contractor Safety, Arc Flash Protection, JSA's, Crane Pick Plans, etc.).
• Ability to conduct internal and support external audits of company activities to ensure compliance with all federal, state and local environmental, safety and health regulations.
• Ability to design creative adult training curriculum for environmental, health and safety training.
• Ability to set enterprise priorities, allocate resources, and balance immediate operational needs with long-term EHS strategy across multiple facilities.
• Strong computer abilities in the MS Office suite of programs to prepare reports, studies and other publications.
• Ability to develop and manage EHS operating and capital budgets and establish resource priorities based on risk, compliance, and business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to build organizational capability through workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, and effective use of internal and external expertise.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related field required; master's degree in a related field preferred.
• Twelve or more years of progressively responsible EHS experience in a multi-site organization, including responsibility for enterprise policies, standards, management systems, compliance, and performance improvement, preferably in the pharmaceutical, medical-device, biotechnology, life-sciences, or another highly regulated industry, required.
• Seven or more years of leadership experience, including responsibility for leading managers and/or professional EHS staff and influencing senior leaders across multiple functions or locations, required.
• Professional certification such as Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), or a comparable EHS credential strongly preferred.
• Experience leading EHS programs in a pharmaceutical manufacturing, cGMP, or similarly regulated operational environment strongly preferred.