Director, Safety, Health, and Environmental

 

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases.

 

At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. 

 

Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers. 
 

 

Position Summary:

The Director of Safety, Health, and Environmental (SH&E) role is critical to the success of our SH&E initiatives on our Journey to Zero. The primary objective of this role is to provide leadership with the skills to enhance the safety of our employees and our environmental footprint with a focus on prevention, fostering a culture where safety, health and environment are ingrained as core values. Additionally, this role leads the design, development and implementation of corporate Safety, Health, and Environmental policies, plans, training, and programs in support of Corporate and Operations strategic goals, performance, and objectives. This role collaborates closely with the various stakeholders to inspire and empower SH&E leadership by all employees. 

 

Key Outputs / Deliverables:

People Development & Capability Building (25%)
•    Support, coach, and guide the site leadership teams to be effective SH&E leaders/coaches in their respective positions. 
•    Dotted line responsibility for all facility SH&E staff. 
•    Hold sites accountable to ensure all actions to prevent recurrence of incidents are effectively implemented while also ensuring effective injury case management process is fully implemented, well understood, and functioning as desired.

Strategy Management and Development (25%)
•    Ensure establishment, interpretation and reporting of relevant KPIs, with appropriate leading and corrective actions based on them.
•    Partners with Site Leadership team to develop Site SH&E key priorities, drivers, and activities with key performance indicators to drive Site SH&E performance improvement. 
•    Develops SH&E best in class programs, systems, and processes, including training and mentoring to establish clear procedures for SH&E measures and precautions.

Liaison and Technical Expertise (25%)
•    Work with legal counsel to ensure understanding and to develop corporate interpretation of legislation and regulation.  Working with legal and government relations, provided awareness and educational support and interaction to third parties on existing and proposed rules.
•     Support remediation activities internally and by third parties to achieve site cleanups and closures.
•    Provides technical expertise/coaching as needed in all SH&E areas and initiatives in partnership with other functions as applicable.
•    Act as multi-site lead for implementation and adoption of SH&E components of continuous improvement. 

 

Compliance (15%)
•    Partner with site leadership teams and other functions to ensure sites maintain a continuous “audit ready�� state of compliance with company SH&E policies and procedures as well as all applicable external regulatory requirements. 
•    Drive site accountability for adherence to ISO 45001 and ISO 14001, as well as relevant OSHA, state, and local regulations. This role requires expertise in risk assessment, safety culture promotion, and emergency preparedness to maintain a safe working environment and effectively manage workplace hazards.

 

Risk Assessment and Elimination (10%)
•    Leads the effective implementation and utilization of risk assessment and risk prediction processes across our sites to ensure these are effective at identifying and mitigating hazards and are effectively communicated and understood by all