Sr. Director HSE - Manufacturing - Concord

BioSpace; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 156,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

401(k) plan

Pension

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Flexible benefits

Life insurance

Job summary

Lilly is seeking a Senior Director, HSE at the Concord Plant to lead the development and maintenance of HSE programs, ensuring compliance across manufacturing operations and environmental controls. This role partners with the Site Lead Team to drive GMP operations, build a resilient organization, and align with corporate objectives, while developing future leaders and managing safety culture.

Actual compensation ranges from $156,000 to $228,800, with eligibility for a company bonus and a

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of leadership experience in HSE programs.
• Experience leading HSE in manufacturing and engaging with regulatory agencies.
• Strong communication and team-building abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to meet regulations and Lilly standards.
• Define HSE priorities, roadmap, initiatives, and metrics for the site.
• Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are met.
• Benchmark best practices externally and apply them to the site.
• Develop future management and technical leadership for site and network roles.
• Escalate critical environmental, health and safety issues to leadership.

Skills

Leadership

HSE management

Regulatory knowledge

Environmental compliance

Communication

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

Reports to the Concord Plant Site Head

Main Purpose And Objectives Of Position

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 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.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: 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) and 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).

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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