Director Eh&s

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Geel, Antwerp, Belgium

Director EH&S at Johnson & Johnson's Geel MAKE site, responsible for overseeing Environmental, Health, and Safety (EH&S) activities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering a strong EH&S culture. This leadership role involves managing a local EH&S team, aligning strategies with enterprise goals, overseeing budgets, leading risk management initiatives, and driving continuous improvement in EH&S systems and processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Represents EHS with internal stakeholders (engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, facilities, etc.), external bodies and local/national authorities to advance site and enterprise objectives.
  2. Develop and implement site EH&S business strategies and align the business with enterprise EH&S goals and objectives, which include budget management, building organizational models and competency to align with the risk factors.
  3. Accountable for the site EHS function, including operating and CAPEX budgets, resource allocation and performance against financial targets.
  4. Builds, coaches and develops the site EHS team, sets objectives, conducts performance reviews, drives professional development plans and contributes to succession and compensation decisions.
  5. Owns the design, deployment and continuous improvement of EHS management systems, procedures and best practices across controlled sites, identifying and delivering cross-site efficiency opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Risk management
  • Team leadership and development
  • Budget management
  • Incident investigation and root-cause analysis
  • Management system implementation (e.g., ISO)
  • Change management
  • Emergency response planning

Nice to have

  • Experience in Synthetic Manufacturing platform
  • Knowledge of specific EH&S regulations in Belgium
  • Innovation and cultural change leadership

What the JD emphasized

  • EH&S regulations
  • regulatory compliance
  • risk reduction
  • risk management initiatives
  • safety culture