Senior Director of Safety

geodi; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid parental leave

Career development

Telemedicine access

Employee wellness

Job summary

GEODIS is seeking a Senior Director of Safety to provide strategic leadership across a multi-site logistics network in the United States. The role designs and implements a comprehensive safety management system, ensures regulatory compliance, and partners with executive leadership to reduce risk and strengthen ESG reporting.

The position requires 40-50% travel for site visits, audits and customer engagements, and leads a matrixed team of EHS professionals to drive continuous safety improvements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or related field.
• 8-10+ years of progressive EHS leadership experience.
• 5+ years leading multi-site EHS programs.
• Experience in high-volume, fast-paced operational environments.
• ESG/sustainability initiatives experience preferred.
• Certifications such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, or Six Sigma preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute enterprise-wide safety strategies aligned with business growth.
• Advise executive leadership on safety risk, cost volatility, and enterprise value.
• Establish enterprise-wide health and safety standards, policies, and governance.
• Travel 40-50% for site visits, audits, meetings, and reviews.
• Lead training to improve safety leadership and reporting fundamentals.
• Develop scorecards, dashboards, and KPI tracking for safety performance.

Skills

Safety leadership

Regulatory compliance

Incident investigation

CAPA

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or related field

Job description

GEODIS specializes in unlocking business value in a complex world, ensuring seamless movement of goods worldwide. As a global third-party logistics provider (3PL), we power A Better Way to Deliver for the world's top brands and manufacturers. Fuel your career with GEODIS and discover endless growth opportunities. Our hybrid work schedule requires team members to be in the office four days per week, with the flexibility to work remotely one day each week.

Position Summary:

The Senior Director of Safety provides strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for enterprise-wide health, safety, across a multi-site logistics, warehousing, transportation, and distribution network. This role is responsible for designing and executing a comprehensive safety management system aimed at minimizing workplace hazards, and executing broader Health and Safety strategy, ensuring regulatory compliance, driving operational excellence, reducing enterprise risk, improving sustainability performance, and strengthening ESG reporting and CSR initiatives limited to Health and Safety responsibilities. The Senior Director partners closely with executive leadership, operations, engineering, facilities, procurement, HR, transportation, and customers to improve safety performance, and drive continuous improvement across the business. This role directly influences operational performance, regulatory compliance, customer confidence, ESG credibility, and long-term enterprise value.

Your role on the team:

• Design, author, and execute the enterprise-wide strategies aligned with business growth.
• Serve as the chief internal advisor to executive leadership on safety risk, cost volatility, and long term enterprise value.
• Establish and authorize enterprise-wide health and safety standards, policies, procedures, and governance frameworks across a multi-site logistics, warehousing, and transportation network.
• Additional Expectations: The position requires 40-50% travel for site visits, audits, customer meetings, incident reviews, and strategic initiatives
• Cross-Functional Partnerships: Partner with Operations, Engineering, Facilities, Procurement, HR, and Transportation to integrate Health and Safety into daily business decisions.
• Ensure Health and Safety representation, due diligence, and management of change (MOC) during site start-ups, facility expansions, customer implementations, automation/capital projects, and acquisitions.
• Commercial Confidence: Align operational safety benchmarks with customer expectations to protect brand reputation and elevate customer confidence.
• Safety Management Systems: Develop and continuously improve end-to-end safety programs covering material handling equipment (MHE), forklift/PIT safety, dock safety, ergonomics, contractor safety, hazard communication, and emergency response.
• Incident Prevention Strategy: Drive an aggressive incident prevention culture to continuously reduce injury frequency, severity, and associated workers' compensation costs.
• Investigation & CAPA Controls: Oversee enterprise incident reporting, root cause analysis (RCA), and learning reviews for serious injuries or near misses, ensuring sustainable corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Multi-Agency Compliance: Secure compliance and manage relationships with external regulatory bodies under OSHA guidelines Audit Governance: Lead rigorous internal health and safety inspections and compliance audits, proactively monitoring regulatory changes to implement required operational adjustments
• Matrixed Team Leadership: Direct, coach, and build succession planning for a high-performance regional team (including Regional EHS Directors, Sustainability Managers, Environmental/Safety Managers, Transportation Safety Managers, and EHS Coordinators).
• Capability Building: Lead training initiatives to improve organizational competency in safety leadership, hazard recognition, forklift certification, and reporting fundamentals. Behavioral Accountability: Drive behavioral change toward operational discipline, promoting employee engagement, ownership, and accountability at all leadership levels.
• Establish enterprise scorecards, dashboards, and KPI tracking systems to present accurate data collection, recordkeeping, and performance trends to executive leadership
• Own data performance across three distinct indices: Safety KPIs: TRIR, DART, Lost Time Incident Rate, Severity Rate, Workers’ Comp Costs, Near Miss Rates, CAPA Closure Rates, and Audit Scores.

What you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Health & Safety, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or related field required.
• 8-10+ years of progressive EHS leadership experience.
• 5+ years leading multi-site EHS programs.
• Strong experience in high-volume, fast-paced operational environments.
• Experience supporting customer-facing logistics operations preferred.
• Experience leading ESG, sustainability, or decarbonization initiatives preferred.
• Expert-level command of OSHA, EPA, and DOT/FMCSA frameworks encompassing warehouse/transportation safety, industrial hygiene, root cause analysis, risk assessments, incident investigation, CAPA systems, and workers’ compensation management; preferred certifications include CSP, CIH, CHMM, or Six Sigma.

What you gain from joining our team:

• Access wages early with the Rain financial wellness app.
• Free telemedical access to doctors and therapists through FirstStop Health available first day of employment!
• Health, dental, and vision insurance after 30 days of employment
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Access to career development, employee resource groups, and mentorship programs
• Access to employee perks like fitness class discounts and free access to a relaxation and meditation app
• Free financial wellness programs
• Opportunities to volunteer and give back to your community
• + more!

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