Hybrid Sr Director, Global Safety, Health, and Environmental Governance bei SC Johnson

SC JOHNSON IS A FIFTH-GENERATION FAMILY COMPANY BUILT ON THE SPIRIT OF OUR PEOPLE. We have been leading with purpose for over 130 years, building iconic brands that win the hearts and minds of consumers – such as Raid®, Glade®, Ziploc® and more, in virtually every country around the world. Together, we are creating a better future – for the planet, for future generations and for every SCJ team member. Join our winning team of Wave Makers and Go Getters and help us write the next chapter in the SCJ story.

The Global Senior Director of Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) leads the development of SC Johnson’s global SHE strategy, standards, guidelines, metrics, and systems. In addition, the Senior Director leads SC Johnson’s SHE Center of Excellence and supports deployment of the company’s SHE strategy and standards across the entire enterprise. In light of this, the Global Senior Director of SHE must be a SHE thought leader and subject matter expert in order to effectively align SC Johnson’s overall SHE strategies and initiatives with company, business unit, and Supply Chain objectives.

As part of a matrix SHE organization, this senior level position leads and facilitates the overall SHE Community of Practice (CoP) via joint problem solving, drives SHE continuous improvement initiatives, and promotes the sharing and deployment of leading SHE practices. This position requires frequent interaction with SC Johnson senior leaders in all regions and functions. The role requires an ability to build partnerships, strategically influence others, and to drive for results.

The position reports to SC Johnson’s Chief Financial Officer / Senior VP of Finance and is based at the company’s Racine, WI headquarters. The position involves up to 30% travel to domestic and international locations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Develops Global SHE Strategy: Collaborates with cross functional stakeholders to develop and align on an enterprise-wide strategy that efficiently and effectively reduces the environmental impacts of our operations while providing safe, healthy, and compliant workplaces for SCJ employees, contractors, visitors and neighbors.  

Develops Global SHE Standards: Facilitates the development of Global SHE standards designed to manage exposure to the company’s most significant health and safety hazards/environmental impacts, and maintains a robust ‘toolkits’ including training materials, program templates, safe work permits, risk assessment tools, and self-assessment guides that support site-specific implementation. Partners with Global Engineering and RD&E to ensure inspections, testing, preventive maintenance criteria for SHE-critical equipment and applicable high-hazard chemical processes are defined, tracked, and communicated as a leading indicator of SHE performance. Develops and deploys targeted intervention processes (e.g., Hypercare) designed to accelerate processes and behaviors related to standards development.

Leads Global SHE Council: Leads the SC Johnson Global Leadership SHE Council and facilitates identification of opportunities and building of plans to strengthen the company’s safety, health, and environmental culture in a manner that promotes engagement and ownership at all levels.

Builds SHE Leadership Competencies: Develops and maintains a leadership training curriculum and provides training, coaching, and mentoring to strengthen leadership competencies required to achieve and maintain safe, healthy and compliant workplaces across the organization.

Manages SHE Compliance Assurance Processes: Manages development of robust global SHE compliance assurance processes – including country-specific regulatory self-assessment protocols – to achieve and maintain compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations and company standards. Partners with Global Internal Audit (GIA) to review all internal SHE compliance-related findings to ensure that findings with enterprise-wide applicability are addressed within applicable global SHE standards.

Investigates Significant Incidents: Leads the post incident investigation and communication of incidents that result in serious injury or significant environmental impact. Partners with stakeholders in the Global Supply Chain, RD&E and Corporate Facilities to ensure that corrective and preventive actions that address the root causes are effectively deployed across the organization.

Establishes Global SHE Targets and Objectives: Engages the Global SHE Council in the development of measurable, annual targets and objectives to reduce, mitigate, and manage exposure to significant safety and health risks and environmental impacts.

Maintains SHE Subject Matter Expertise: The Senior Director provides enterprise-wide coaching and mentoring to strengthen competencies associated with SHE functional skills. This role also serves as the people leader for the organization’s global SHE subject matter experts that provide SHE technical support in areas of environmental management, occupational safety and health, process safety management, and laboratory safety. Maintains awareness of regulatory and non-governmental SHE requirements and provide early input to other Company functions of impending requirements in such a way that necessary changes are planned and implemented accordingly.

Maintains SHE Data Management Systems: Maintains the enterprise wide SHE data management systems, confirms the accuracy of data, and performs data analysis to identify sub-standard performance and loss trends to address the underlying factors that contribute to injuries and illnesses, adverse environmental impacts, and SHE process non-conformances.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, fire protection, environmental science or related discipline.
• 10+ years of progressively increasing SHE leadership responsibility in a global manufacturing organization.
• Experience managing activities associated with OSHA’s process safety management standard, the European Seveso Directive, or equivalent country-specific requirements intended to prevent the uncontrolled release of hazardous substances.

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies

• Advanced degree in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, fire protection, environmental science, engineering, or related discipline preferred
• Designation as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) or country equivalent preferred.
• Ability to effectively interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships to create win/win outcomes
• Effective verbal and written communication skills that permit the clear and concise transfer of information to stakeholders
• Project management experience to enable prioritization and management of multiple projects to completion
• Familiarity with aerosol manufacturing operations.

Job Requirements

• Full-time core office hours with expectation to be available for meetings across time zones
• Up to 30% domestic and international travel required

Inclusion & Diversity

We’re a global business, with people from every culture, ethnicity, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age and ability. We recognize the breadth of human experience, and we work to celebrate it. It is our goal to build a diverse, inclusive and supportive work environment where all people can thrive.

We’re committed to ongoing efforts that help us attract, hire, and retain diverse talent who want to build a positive, inclusive environment. Read more about our ongoing initiatives at https://jobs.scjohnson.com/inclusion.

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