Director, EHS&S

Title: Director EHS&S

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Position Summary

The Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security (EHS&S) Department is responsible for the overall safety and security of all employees, visitors, and contractors. The EH&S department holds various compliance requirements including compliance with federal, state, and local permit requirements relating to environmental statutes, worker safety/health, and security relating to both physical and cybersecurity.  The EHS&S department has a wide range of recordkeeping requirements, including safety/health incident and accident reporting, chemical/physical hazard registries, and security risk and business continuity planning and maintenance programs.

The position reports to the General Manager.  The EHS&S Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and continually improving Catalent’s EHS&S programs in a manner that reduces risk, prevents incidents, and complies with external regulatory requirements to provide an environment that is safe and secure for employees, visitors, and contractors.

The Role:

• Guide and promote employee health and safety performance by developing health and safety systems, policies and procedures, campaigns, and programs to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses and enhance the overall site safety culture resulting in management engagement, employee involvement, and the reduction of unsafe conditions and behaviors.

• Provide technical consultation that includes assessment and management of EHS&S issues and risks arising from operations to prevent incidents and protect company assets and business affairs.  Inspect, assess, monitor, investigate, and/or recommend corrective and preventative actions, conduct trend analysis, document compliance with standards, design programs and implement; accountable for incident handling and reporting of EH&S issues.

• Manage and develop the EHS&S team of personnel (e.g., EH&S Specialist, Security Manager, and others). Assist and guide internal and external customers with regards to Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security issues, including special projects, new products, and complaints or concerns.

• Conduct assessments, inventories, and inspections for various environmental and safety regulations.  These include:

                                Job Hazard Assessments

                                Accident Investigations

                                Hazard control and Prevention Reports

                                Tracking and verification of corrective actions

                                Environmental Impact Assessments

                                Audits to the EHS&S            

• Advance the EHS&S objectives and achievement of results through the engagement of appropriate stakeholders throughout the organization including the management and direction of the site safety committees.

• Ensure that complaints, incidents, compliance deviations, and enforcement actions are fully investigated and work with other departments to ensure corrective and preventative measures are taken. Establish, maintain, and continually improve a process where employees can communicate EHS&S related questions and concerns

• Implement and continuously improve loss control programs such as emergency response, business continuity, crisis management planning, access control and building/life safety consulting other leaders as appropriate. Serve as site specific EH&S compliance program owner to interpret EH&S regulations and develop standards, procedures, and programs that include, but are not limited to safety, ergonomic, and industrial hygiene.

• Perform facility audits, surveys, and inspections to identify environmental, security, and occupational hazards and weaknesses to promote effective practices and ensure compliance with applicable regulations and develop recommendations that provide solutions, remedies, or process improvement.

• Manage the Industrial Hygiene program in compliance with regulatory and company requirements to ensure samplings are conducted, employees are trained, and appropriate engineering controls are placed to ensure employee health and safety. In addition, supervise medical surveillance program including but not limited to respiratory protection, hearing conservation, and employee exposure monitoring.

• Adhere and maintain 100% compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. Prepare, submit (as appropriate, by law), and document all Homeland Security, EPA, and OSHA requir