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Sr. Director, Health, Safety and Environmental (M3)

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 Kenosha 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 Kenosha Plant HSE teams to the Corporate HSE group to ensure alignment and is responsible for the systems to support regulatory inspections. 

The Senior Director HSE will be reporting to the Site Head and is a member of the Kenosha 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.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Establish and serve as the leader of the site HSE Lead Team, ensuring safety and environmental focus is incorporated throughout project delivery and startup. 
• Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to ensure Compliance with relevant regulations and Lilly Global standards for Health Safety and Environment.
• Define the site HSE priorities & roadmap to develop and implement the systems and processes needed to run the site. This includes leveraging existing Lilly knowledge where necessary but also incorporating external experiences and learning.
• Integrate 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.
• Establish and serve as the leader of the site HSE Lead Team, ensuring safety and environmental focus is incorporated throughout project delivery and startup. 
• 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.

In the project delivery and startup phase of the major capital expansion project the Site Lead Team roles will be fluid and dynamic as we endeavor to support the project delivery, build a new organization, develop and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support expanded GMP operations, and evolve the site culture. This will require significant collaboration, creativity and resilience as the site grows to future scale GMP manufacturing through startup of new work centers. Requirements through this phase include: 

• Be a collaborative, inclusive, energetic leader and support the broader lead team across all aspects of operational readiness and startup.
• Build the organization with the necessary capability, capacity and culture to operate this facility to the highest standards of safety and operational excellence.
• Support the project team to deliver the facility as a key stakeholder. Provide feedback and support on design decisions and startup plan impacting HSE aspects. Collaborate to ensure the right decisions are made to meet project deliverables and compliance requirements. Partner with Global Facilities Delivery (Lilly’s global capital delivery organization) on contractor safety. 
• Develop and adapt organizational structure to provide correct and capable resources and management to deliver the site to future scale GMP manufacturing, including establishment of environmental expertise. 
• Build technical relationships with the relevant corporate/global departments and sponsors strategic corporate initiatives at a site level. 

Requirements (Education, Experience, Training)

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership role managing HSE teams/programs.
• Experienced leadership of HSE programs and HSE management systems in a manufacturing setting. 
• Experience with implementing and managing environmental compliance programs in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies on environmental, health, and safety requirements
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Must have a strong ability to form effective relationships at all levels. 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 on site.
• Should have experience developing and managing talented, engaged and high performing teams with a focus on building strong team cultures

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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is

$151,500 - $222,200

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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