What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Safety, Quality, and Enviormental Director position at A-Gas?
Regional Safety, Quality, and Environmental Director
A-Gas is a global expert in the supply and full life-cycle management of specialty chemicals and gases. We provide refrigerants, blowing agents, fire protection agents, and carbon credit offsets to our customers worldwide.
We continue to lead the industry in developing cutting-edge solutions designed to protect the environment through the reduction of global warming gases being released into the atmosphere.
The Regional SQE Director will manage the Americas region's safety, quality, and environmental programs to ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
This role is responsible for harmonizing A-Gas Safety, Quality, and Environmental systems, including process standardization, best practices development, and coordination of SQE audits for America's Plants and the Rapid Recovery Network.
This position also includes responsibility for the regional quality team and transportation programs to maintain compliance with programs such as Quality, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and DOT/Fleet.
This will be a high-travel position that will require at least 50% of the time working in the field with site safety teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Build positive and productive relationships focused on growing A-Gas SQE culture at all levels and within all SBUs of the Americas.
- Align with Group SQE on group policy and best practices and collaborate with the local SQE team on how we can implement across the region.
- Lead the regional quality team to ensure we maintain our quality certifications such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and drive continuous improvement within the region through those programs.
- Analyze risk, trends, and countermeasures to internal and external risk, and develop leading safety metrics to identify actionable safety targets and incident root causes.
- Lead all incident Serious Event investigations for the Americas and develop processes to mitigate these risks in the business. Issue Serious Event Notices in collaboration with the VP of Operations.
- Assist the SQE Managers in the education and development of a behavioral culture focused on safety as the number one priority and that encourages near-miss submittals, and incident reporting and ensures a timely and appropriate response to reports.
- Accountable for compliance with all regulatory agencies on a local, state, and federal level. Manage and control all the company's SQE regulatory reporting requirements, ensuring submission by required dates and maintaining on file as required.
- Develop standard operating procedures and maintain proper records for regulatory compliance.
- Provide leadership and development to the SQE managers and create a cohesive work team focused on continuous improvement.
- Prepare annual SQE budget for the region and manages the budget.
- Serves as the process expert in support of business evaluation activities in support of A-Gas' growth strategy.
- Travel domestically and internationally as required by the business.
Salary: The targeted salary will be based on the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits: A-Gas offers generous benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), a 401(k), company-paid short-term & long-term disability, life insurance, training initiatives, professional certifications, and tuition reimbursement.
