Vice President of Global Environmental, Health & Safety

Hexcel Corporation; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hexcel Corporation seeks a Vice President of Global Environmental, Health & Safety in Cambridge. This executive role involves leading EHS strategies for global operations, ensuring compliance and excellence in safety, and fostering a culture of high performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in EHS and management, along with a strong record in achieving safety objectives in the aerospace sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in EH&S or manufacturing roles with increasing leadership and scope.
• Ability to travel 40% of the time, including international travel.
• Working knowledge of relevant EHS regulations for the US and EU.

Responsibilities

• Drive and propose multi-year EHS strategy for the company.
• Lead internal audit program to ensure regulatory compliance globally.
• Manage global EHS information and reporting, including timely reports.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Compliance

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in safety engineering, environmental science, or manufacturing related discipline

Advanced degree (MBA) desirable but not essential

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Client:

Hexcel Corporation

Location:

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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Job Description:

How would you ensure our global EHS strategy remains agile and future-ready in the aerospace industry?

When it comes to our EHS standards, we’re not just meeting expectations—we’re raising the bar and setting the pace for global leadership in safety, sustainability, and compliance. As a key executive leader, the Vice President of Global EHS will be instrumental in shaping a high-performing, safety-first culture across our global manufacturing network. This role is responsible for setting the strategic direction for environmental, health, and safety programs, ensuring global regulatory compliance, and embedding EHS excellence into the fabric of our operations.

This position reports to the Senior Vice President of Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) and can be based in Duxford.

What you will do:

• Drive, update, and propose a comprehensive, multi-year strategy to continue the company’s journey towards EHS performance excellence. This includes work in personal safety, environment, occupational health, process safety and product stewardship. The strategy focuses both on technical systems/standards, and also on leadership/behavioral/cultural aspects.
• Lead and oversee specific programs, including a robust internal audit program, to ensure regulatory compliance in all areas of EH&S globally.
• Ensure successful permitting for the needs of growing production requirements
• Support plant start-ups, expansions, mergers and acquisitions from an EHS perspective.
• Provide specific, hands-on, detailed EH&S support to sites, as needed based on particular circumstances and performance (for example by developing tools, delivering training, conducting risk assessments, investigations, etc.)
• Manage remediation work and collaborate with Legal department on any long-term litigation or anticipated litigation that may have environmental components in it.
• Talent management of direct reports, the entire corporate EHS organization, and the global EHS community that includes hiring, succession planning, development, and other activities.
• Manage global EHS information and reporting, including the generation of accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports, their corresponding analysis, and the proposition of improvement actions.
• Provide EH&S leadership for the company's sustainability efforts.
• Provide support, ideas, pilot programs, and establish formal processes and systems in areas including security, sustainable development, crisis management, community relations and others.
• Contribute to various initiatives and the general business of the Integrated Supply Chain Leadership Team, for example as related to capital projects, supplier contracts, budget management, quality, etc.

What will you gain:

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to lead a dynamic and innovative team, drive significant impact in the aerospace industry, and advance your career in a leadership role. You will form strategies to maintain and elevate a culture of world-class safety performance.

• Bachelors degree in safety engineering, environmental science, manufacturing related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience in EH&S or manufacturing roles of increasing leadership, scope and complexity. Global leadership/management experience preferred.
• Ability to travel 40% of the time including international travel.
• Established record in generating outstanding results, including decreases in incidents, injuries, regulatory challenges, completing remediation work, and contributing to the bottom line.
• Ability to complete accurate analyses, propose solutions, create task forces, establish plans, address obstacles, overs progress, and complete long-term, complex projects and initiatives.
• Comfortable and skilled in multitasking, responsive, quick, able to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Influencing skills, able to sell, propose, convince, and influence peers, site managers, the executive committee and employees at large to adopt new practices, change and improve.
• Familiar with best-in-class practices, programs, tools and approaches.
• Open, direct and clear communication style. Able to summarize complicated concepts and make a point succinctly. Comfortable constructively confronting issues and collaborating to find solutions.
• Customer oriented, able to see matters from the perspective of internal customers in operations, negotiating, responding to customer needs, and transmitting a customer orientation approach to the EHS organization.
• Working knowledge of relevant EHS regulations for the US and EU, including OSHA, Seveso, various EU directives, U.S. federal environmental statutes, REACH, etc.
• Oversees a robust internal audit program to ensure regulatory compliance in all areas of EH&S for Hexcel.
• Ensure successful permitting for the needs of Hexcel's growing production requirements

Skill we value:

• An advanced degree (MBA) is desirable but not essential.

With our strong investment in research and development and our culture of continuous improvement, Hexcel is the industry leader in the manufacturing of advance composite materials, including carbon fibre, woven reinforcements, resins, prepregs, honeycombs and additive manufactured parts. We invite you to join the Hexcel team at various manufacturing sites, sales offices and R&T centers around the globe.Become a part of the “strength within.”

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom where this position is based. Hexcel (NYSE: HXL) is a global leader in advanced composites technology, a leading producer of carbon fiber, and the world leader in honeycomb manufacturing for the commercial aerospace industry.