Sr. Director HSE - Manufacturing - Concord

100 Eli Lilly and Company; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 156,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Lilly is seeking a Senior Director, HSE for the Concord Plant to lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of HSE programs across site operations. You will ensure regulatory compliance and drive safety, environmental stewardship, and continuous improvement within GMP manufacturing.

Ideal candidates bring 10–15 years in HSE leadership, ability to align with corporate objectives, and strong communication across all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience leading HSE programs in manufacturing settings (pharma, chemicals, food & beverage).
• Experience implementing environmental compliance programs per regulatory requirements.
• Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies on HSE matters.
• Bachelor's degree and 10–15 years in a leadership role managing HSE teams/projects.
• Ability to collaborate with Site Leadership and communicate across all organizational levels.
• Track record of building high-performing, engaged teams focused on safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to ensure regulatory and Lilly standards compliance.
• Define and support site HSE priorities and roadmap with cross-functional partners.
• Develop and manage HSE initiatives, plans, and metrics.
• Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are met.
• Benchmark best practices across the network and externally.
• Develop leadership for site and global HSE roles; escalate critical issues as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory experience

HSE system management

Communication

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Job description

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve. This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it’s work worth doing. If you’re driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Senior Director HSE OVERVIEW:

The Senior Director, HSE (Health, Safety, and Environmental), is directly responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the HSE programs and systems for the Concord Plant manufacturing site. The Sr. Director HSE is responsible for the productivity and development of the HSE employees, resolution of health, safety and environmental issues and ensuring compliance to Corporate and regulatory requirements. This role provides HSE oversight for all site operations, including Manufacturing, environmental control, utilities, and waste operations, lab facilities, emergency response, and administrative facilities. In addition, the Senior Director HSE provides functional HSE leadership, direction and governance to the HSE organization at the site. This role will connect the Concord Plant HSE team to the Corporate HSE group to ensure alignment and will be responsible for the systems that support regulatory inspections. The Senior Director HSE is a member of the Concord Plant Site Lead Team. The Lead Team has collective responsibility to develop and implement the strategic direction, organizational capability and management of the site. Primarily, the Lead Team drives the site toward achieving long term business objectives; continuously develops the business and organization for the future; and manages issues that span multiple teams in the organization and extend into the broader corporate/external context. Site Lead Team members provide oversight to enable successful project delivery, build and empower a resilient organization, and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations, and progress the site culture. This requires significant collaboration, creativity and flexibility as the site undertakes full-scale GMP manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities for this role include:

• Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and Lilly Global standards for Health Safety and Environment.
• Continue to define and support the site HSE priorities & roadmap, integrating functional Lead Team partners as required.
• Develop and manage the HSE business initiatives, HSE Plan and HSE metrics.
• Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are continually met.
• Have external focus, benchmark best practices across network and externally.
• Develop future management and technical leadership for the site and network/global roles.
• Escalate critical environmental, health and safety issues as appropriate to line management and corporate HSE management.

Requirements:

• Experienced leadership of HSE programs and HSE management systems in a manufacturing setting (e.g., pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, food and beverage).
• Experience with implementing and managing environmental compliance programs in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies on environmental, health, and safety requirements.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline and a minimum of 10-15 years of experience in a leadership role managing HSE teams/programs.
• This candidate must be able to work closely with the Site Leadership team to ensure alignment with corporate objectives and internal decision making processes, and be able to connect and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Experience developing and managing talented, engaged and high performing teams with a focus on building strong team cultures to ensure a safe and successful work environment.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs):

• Africa, Middle East, Central Asia (AMECA)
• Black Employees at Lilly (BE@Lilly)
• Chinese Culture Network (CCN)
• EnAble
• Evolve
• Lilly Indian Network (LIN)
• Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA)
• Pride (LGBTQ+ Allies)
• Veterans Leadership Network (VLN)
• Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL)

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.

The anticipated wage for this position is $156,000 - $228,800. Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance).

In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).

• eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k)
• pension
• vacation benefits
• eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits
• flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts)
• life insurance and death benefits
• certain time off and leave of absence benefits
• well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)

Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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