Regional Safety, Quality, and Enviormental Director

Regional Safety, Quality, and Enviormental Director

A-Gas is the global expert in the supply and full life-cycle management of specialty chemicals and gases, providing refrigerants, blowing agents, fire protection agents, and carbon credit offsets to our customers around the world. With industry-leading recovery, reclamation, and gas processing technologies, A-Gas continues to lead the industry in developing cutting-edge solutions designed to protect the environment through the reduction of global warming gases being released into the atmosphere. For more information on A-Gas, and our environmental journey, please go to www.agas.com/us.

The Regional SQE Director will manage the Americas region's safety, quality, and environmental programs to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. The Regional SQE Director serves as the senior expert for the Americas' SQE Department and works with Group SQE on global best practices. This role is responsible for harmonizing A-Gas Safety, Quality, and Environmental systems, which will include process standardization, the development of best practices, and coordination of SQE Audits for America's Plants and the Rapid Recovery Network. This role will also be responsible for the regional quality team, and transportation programs, to maintain compliance with programs such as Quality, ISO9001, ISO14001, and DOT/Fleet.

his will be a high-travel position that will require at least 50% of the time working in the field with the site safety teams.

Reports to

VP of Operations, Americas

Direct Reports

• Regional Quality Manager
• Plant Safety Managers (Rhome and Bowling Green)
• Network Safety Specialists (East and West)

Key Responsibilities

• Build positive and productive relationships focused on growing A-Gas SQE culture at all levels and within all SBUs of the Americas.
• Align with Group SQE on group policy and best practices and collaborate with the local SQE team on how we can implement across the region.
• Lead the regional quality team to ensure we maintain our quality certifications such as ISO9001 and ISO14001 and drive continuous improvement within the region through those programs.
• Analyze risk, trends, and countermeasures to internal and external risk, and develop leading safety metrics to identify actionable safety targets and incident root causes.
• Lead all incident Serious Event investigations for the Americas and develop processes to mitigate these risks in the business. Issue Serious Event Notices in collaboration with the VP of Operations.
• Assist the SQE Managers in the education and development of a behavioral culture focused on safety as the number one priority and that encourages near-miss submittals, and incident reporting and ensures a timely and appropriate response to reports.