{"id":3378179,"url":"https://alion.io/job/vantage-specialty-chemicals-global-ehs-director","title":"Global EHS Director","company":{"id":2642718,"name":"Vantage Specialty Chemicals","domain":"vantagegrp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/vantagegrp","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Deerfield, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":180000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-27","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T18:42:49Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":13,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":13},"description":"The Role\nPosition Title: Global EH&S Director\nWork Location: Deerfield\nPosition Summary\nEstablish, implement, and audit the company’s global EH&S strategy, systems, and standards.\nReporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, the Global EH&S Director works closely with site leadership and corporate functions to ensure strong regulatory compliance, effective management of high-hazard chemical manufacturing risks, and continuous improvement in safety and environmental performance.\nA critical component of the role is strengthening the organization’s safety approach beyond regulatory compliance toward a proactive, prevention-focused safety culture. The successful candidate will have meaningful experience implementing behavior-based safety (BBS) programs and building leadership and employee ownership of safety.\nThe position requires significant practical experience with OSHA and EPA regulations, preferably gained within chemical, specialty chemical, petrochemical, refining, or other high-hazard manufacturing environments.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nDevelop and implement a global EH&S strategy aligned with the company’s operational and business objectives, including EH&S review of capital projects, design standards, and acquisitions.\nEstablish global EH&S policies, standards, management systems, metrics, and expectations, aligned with recognized frameworks such as Responsible Care/RC14001 and ISO 14001/45001, while ensuring effective execution at the site level.\nServe as the principal EH&S advisor to the COO and senior leadership team regarding significant safety, environmental, regulatory, and operational risks.\nEstablish clear accountability and decision rights for EH&S performance throughout the organization, from senior leadership through plant management, supervisors, and frontline employees.\nDevelop leading and lagging EH&S indicators (for example, TRIR/DARTprocess safety event rates, notices of violation, corrective-action closure, and near-miss reporting) and provide regular performance and risk reporting to the COO and executive leadership, including significant risks, compliance gaps, overdue corrective actions, and emerging regulatory issues.\nSafety Culture & Behavior-Based Safety\nLead the development and implementation of a comprehensive behavior-based safety program across manufacturing locations.\nBuild a safety culture in which employees actively identify hazards, report near misses, intervene when unsafe behaviors or conditions are observed, and participate in improving workplace safety.\nDefine leadership expectations for visible safety leadership, including management safety observations, employee engagement, field presence, and corrective-action follow-through, and implement safety observation and feedback processes that identify at-risk behaviors and reinforce safe behaviors.\nUse BBS data, near-miss information, incident trends, and leading indicators to identify systemic risks and improvement opportunities, and ensure that behavioral safety complements, and never substitutes for, strong engineering controls, process safety systems, operating discipline, and regulatory compliance.\nOccupational Safety and OSHA Compliance\nProvide corporate leadership and technical expertise regarding OSHA regulations, in particular PSM and injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements (29 CFR 1904).\nEnsure effective programs covering all life-critical procedures and core occupational safety requirements.\nProcess Safety\nProvide leadership for process safety management across chemical manufacturing operations, including compliance with OSHA PSM (29 CFR 1910.119) and EPA Risk Management Program (RMP, 40 CFR Part 68) requirements.\nEnsure appropriate implementation of PSM and RMP program elements, including employee participation, process safety information, process hazard analyses, operating procedures, training, contractor management, pre-startup safety reviews, mechanical integrity, hot work permits, management of change, incident investigations, emergency planning, and compliance audits.\nDrive effective use of methodologies such as HAZOP, What-If analysis, LOPA, and other appropriate process hazard assessment techniques, including facility siting, safety instrumented systems, and reactive chemistry hazard evaluation where applicable.\nManage fire, explosion, and combustible dust hazards, including hazardous area classification and applicable NFPA standards.\nEnvironmental Compliance and EPA\nProvide leadership and technical oversight of environmental compliance programs, with strong working knowledge and practical exposure to U.S. EPA regulations applicable to chemical manufacturing.\nAreas of responsibility include the following federal programs and their state counterparts:\nAir (Clean Air Act): Title V operating permits, New Source Review/PSD and other air permitting programs; NESHAP/MACT and NSPS requirements, including leak detection and repair (LDAR); emissions reporting; and RMP (CAA §112(r), addressed under Process Safety)\nWater (Clean Water Act): NPDES and stormwater permits, industrial pretreatment and POTW discharge permits, and Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) requirements\nWaste: RCRA hazardous waste requirements\nChemicals and releases: TSCA; EPCRA (including TRI and Tier II reporting); and CERCLA/EPCRA chemical release reporting and regulatory notifications\nProvide oversight of environmental permitting, compliance reporting, emissions management, waste management, wastewater, and environmental monitoring.\n\nIncident Investigation and Risk Reduction\nEstablish rigorous standards for reporting and investigating injuries, environmental incidents, process safety events, spills, releases, and high-potential near misses.\nEnsure significant incidents undergo appropriate root-cause analysis rather than stopping at immediate causes or operator behavior, identifying systemic causes involving equipment design, procedures, training, management systems, organizational factors, and leadership.\nEnsure major process safety events, serious injuries, and high-potential near misses receive prompt executive visibility, investigation, and corrective action.\nEnsure lessons learned are communicated and applied across all relevant facilities.\nAuditing, Compliance Assurance, and Regulatory Engagement\nDevelop and manage a risk-based global EH&S audit program.\nConduct or oversee periodic audits of manufacturing locations covering regulatory compliance, process safety, occupational safety, environmental performance, and corporate EH&S standards, working with Legal on audit privilege and voluntary self-disclosure decisions.\nMaintain a single system to track corrective actions arising from audits, incidents, inspections, and regulatory findings through verified completion, with escalation of overdue items.\n Lead preparation for, and response to, OSHA, EPA, and state agency inspections, investigations, and enforcement matters, supporting sites and coordinating with Legal.\nOrganizational Capability\nDevelop the capabilities of plant EH&S leaders and professionals through training, coaching, technical support, and clear performance expectations.\nEstablish minimum competency standards for site EH&S personnel.\nWork closely with Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Legal, and other functions to integrate EH&S into everyday business decisions.\nBuild effective relationships with regulatory agencies, external consultants, insurers (including loss-control engineering), industry organizations, and other external stakeholders.\nMonitor proposed and emerging federal and state EH&S regulations, assess their impact on operations, and advocate for the company’s interests through industry organizations where appropriate.\nImplement and maintain EH&S information systems for incident, audit, management-of-change, and corrective-action management, and provide EH&S data and support for sustainability reporting, customer audits, and customer questionnaires.\nEducation & Experience\nRequired:\nBachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Safety Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Chemistry, or a related technical discipline.\nA minimum of 12 years of progressive EH&S experience, including substantial experience in chemical manufacturing or another high-hazard process industry.\nDemonstrated leadership experience across multiple manufacturing locations, including leading and developing EH&S teams and managing budgets.\nStrong practical experience with OSHA regulations and process safety management (OSHA PSM and EPA RMP), with a strong understanding of chemical manufacturing hazards.\nStrong working knowledge and practical experience with EPA environmental regulations affecting chemical manufacturing operations, including Title V air permitting.\nDemonstrated experience implementing or significantly improving a behavior-based safety program within an industrial organization, ideally across multiple facilities with measurable results.\nExperience leading significant incident investigations and root-cause analyses.\nExperience interacting directly with OSHA, EPA, state environmental agencies, or equivalent regulatory authorities.\nExperience establishing EH&S metrics, management systems, auditing programs, and corrective-action processes.\nAbility to communicate complex regulatory and technical issues clearly to senior executives and operating personnel.\nAbility and willingness to travel regularly to manufacturing locations.\nPreferred:\nProfessional certifications such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or CCPSC, or a Professional Engineer (PE) license.\nExperience operating within a global specialty chemical organization.\nExperience with emissions-control and other environmental capital projects within the chemical industry.\nPay\nThe estimated base pay range for this position is: $180,000 to $200,000 annually. Actual pay will be determined based on education, certifications, experience, qualifications, skills and geographic location. This position is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive program.\nBenefits\nVantage offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees, including:\nVantage (non-Union)\n· Medical, HSA, dental, vision\n· FSA (limited purpose, dependent care, and commuter/parking)\n· Life and AD&D insurance\n· Accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness insurance\n· Short- and long-term disability\n· EAP, identity theft protection\n· Paid time off, Parental Leave\n· 401(k) with company match\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nVantage is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected category.\nAbout Vantage\nVantage provides natural solutions to our customers’ technical performance and marketing needs through a unique combination of chemistry, application expertise and service. Underpinned by our broad portfolio of formulations, ingredients and actives that are built on a backbone of sustainable oils, fats and their derivatives, Vantage targets selected markets and applications including personal care, food, surface treatment, agriculture, pharma, and consumer and industrial performance. 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