Senior Director, Radiation Protection & Environmental Health & Safety

Siemens Healthineers; Hoffman Estates (IL); On-site; USD 178,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Paid parking/public transportation

Paid time off

Paid sick time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers seeks a Senior Director of Radiation Protection & Environmental Health & Safety to lead global RPEHS. You will own strategy, governance, budget, and the EHS Management System across Radiopharma, with responsibility for U.S. and international regulatory alignment.

You will shape the global organization, drive digitalization, and partner with Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, and IT to enable compliant, scalable growth.

Qualifications

• University degree in Radiation Protection, Health Physics, Medical Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, EHS, or related field.
• Significant leadership experience in Radiation Protection, EHS, or regulated environments.
• Experience leading multi-country teams and complex matrix organizations.
• Experience in strategy, management systems, budgets, and resource prioritization.
• Strong executive communication and business judgment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global RPEHS strategy and roadmap aligned with growth and regulatory changes.
• Integrate RPEHS into business strategy, investments, and facility development.
• Oversee global EHS Management System across international and U.S. regulatory frameworks.
• Lead governance, budget, and resource strategy for the RPEHS organization.
• Provide executive visibility on risks, regulatory developments, and capability gaps.

Skills

Leadership experience

Radiation Protection

EHS leadership

Regulatory compliance

Executive communication

Education

University degree in Radiation Protection or related field

Job description

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

The Senior Director, Radiation Protection & Environmental Health & Safety provides executive leadership and organizational accountability for RPEHS across Siemens Healthineers Radiopharma globally. The role leads the global organization and owns its strategy, governance, budget, resources, EHS Management System, and future capability to meet applicable legal and regulatory requirements and enable sustainable business growth.

The Position Operates Across a Highly Regulated And Rapidly Evolving Radiopharma Environment, Including Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Cyclotron Operations, Theranostics, CDMO Activities, New Products And Isotopes, Facility Development, And Geographic Expansion. It Comprises Two Distinct Areas Of Accountability

• Executive and Global RPEHS Leadership
• Corporate Radiation Safety Officer responsibilities, subject to applicable U.S. qualification, designation, and regulatory requirements

Primary Responsibilities

Executive and Global RPEHS Leadership

• Develop and execute the global RPEHS strategy and future capability roadmap, translating business growth, new technologies, products, facilities, acquisitions, and regulatory developments into organizational, resource, and governance requirements.
• Integrate RPEHS into business strategy, investment, facility development, operational readiness, and major business decisions and identify constraints that could limit compliant and sustainable growth.
• Own the architecture, governance, effectiveness, and continuous evolution of the global Radiopharma EHS Management System across diverse international and U.S. federal and state legal and regulatory frameworks.
• Establish global requirements, operational controls, accountabilities, performance expectations, management review, and escalation principles while enabling appropriate regional and local implementation.
• Set the RPEHS digitalization, data, workflow, and automation roadmap to improve compliance management, transparency, scalability, and organizational learning.
• Design and lead the global RPEHS organization, including organizational structure, decision authority, budget and cost-center responsibility, workforce and resource strategy, talent development, succession, employee engagement, and retention.
• Develop managers and technical leaders and build effective networks across Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Security, Training, HR, IT, and other functions to drive decisions in a complex matrix organization.
• Provide executive visibility and escalation of significant risks, regulatory developments, performance, capability gaps, and resource requirements, and represent RPEHS in executive planning, investments, integrations, and other major business decisions.

Corporate Radiation Safety Officer

• Serve as designated CRSO with the authority and organizational independence required to administer and continuously improve the U.S. Radiation Protection Program across licensed operations.
• Own U.S. radioactive material licensing and cyclotron-registration strategy and maintain effective working relationships with federal and state radiation-control authorities through licensing activities, inspections, investigations, regulatory correspondence, notifications, and enforcement matters.
• Provide final Radiation Protection review and approval, as applicable, for licensing submissions, shielding and facility designs, new or modified licensed activities, Theranostics programs, new products and isotopes, construction and expansion projects, significant process changes, and operational readiness.
• Establish and approve U.S. Radiation Protection Program requirements and lead the Corporate Radiation Safety Committee, including oversight of RSO/DRSO qualification, appointment, development, and performance.
• Maintain operational oversight of core Radiation Protection programs, including dosimetry, ALARA, monitoring, radioactive material transportation, waste management, material accountability, required records, compliance assessments, and corrective actions.
• Exercise independent regulatory judgment and lead Radiation Protection aspects of incidents, reportability decisions, regulatory notifications, inspections, investigations, legal matters, and other significant U.S. regulatory issues.

Required Qualifications

• University degree in Radiation Protection, Health Physics, Medical Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, EHS, or a closely related scientific or engineering discipline.
• Significant leadership experience in Radiation Protection, EHS, radiopharmaceutical manufacturing, accelerator operations, or another complex regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading managers and multidisciplinary technical teams across countries, cultures, organizational boundaries, and time zones.
• Demonstrated experience in organizational strategy, management systems, business growth, organizational design, talent development, budgets, workforce planning, and resource prioritization.
• Strong executive communication and business judgment, with the ability to translate technical, regulatory, and organizational risks into decisions and build alignment across a complex matrix organization.

Additional Requirements For CRSO Designation

• At least five years of applied health physics experience involving Radiation Protection issues comparable to the U.S. Radiopharma program.
• Demonstrated experience as a named RSO or CRSO with U.S. radioactive-material licensing, cyclotron registrations, regulatory inspections, investigations, corrective actions, and Radiation Protection Program management.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent regulatory judgment and prioritize competing Radiation Protection, regulatory, and operational demands across multiple U.S. sites, including time-critical situations.
• Certification by the American Board of Health Physics as a Certified Health Physicist or by the American Board of Medical Physics in Medical Health Physics.
• Ability to meet applicable licensing, regulatory, and location requirements for CRSO designation and maintain effective engagement with U.S. licensed operations and regulatory authorities.

Who we are

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

The Base Pay Range For This Position Is

$177,780 - $244,442

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

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