Director, Health & Safety

DSV is the world's third-largest supplier of global transport and logistics solutions, operating in more than 80 countries. This role is based in the DFW area (Lancaster, Lyndon B Johnson Fwy) and covers responsibility for locations throughout North and South America within the Solutions division. Time type: Full Time.

About the role

The Director, Health & Safety – NASA Region is the senior regional leader accountable for the implementation, governance, and performance of the Health & Safety function across DSV’s in-scope Contract Logistics and Data Centre operations throughout North and South America. Reporting to the Senior Vice President with a dotted line to the Global Director of HSSE, Quality & Compliance, the role translates the global Health & Safety strategy, management system, and customer requirements into consistent and effective regional execution, while ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, provincial, and local legislation. The position leads, manages, and develops the regional Health & Safety team, including Regional Safety Managers, establishing clear accountabilities, performance expectations, and consistent ways of working across countries, sites, and operational portfolios. It owns regional Health & Safety governance, performance monitoring, operational risk oversight, incident escalation, investigation assurance, audit, and corrective-action effectiveness. As the senior regional Health & Safety representative, the role works closely with regional business leadership, site management, the Global Director of HSSE, Quality & Compliance, and customer Health & Safety leadership to maintain regulatory compliance, meet contractual requirements, strengthen safety culture, and deliver measurable, sustained improvements in operational safety performance.

Responsibilities

Regional Strategy, Leadership and Governance

• Lead implementation of the Global Health & Safety strategy, policies, standards, and mandatory programmes throughout the NASA Region.
• Develop and execute a regional Health & Safety plan aligned with global objectives, DSV business priorities, customer commitments, and applicable legal obligations.
• Own the regional Health & Safety governance framework, including review cadence, decision-making, escalation routes, and accountability for actions.
• Set clear expectations for regional and site teams and verify consistent execution across countries, sites, and operational portfolios.
• Advise and challenge Regional Directors, Site General Managers, and operational leaders on material risks, compliance gaps, and safety performance.
• Represent NASA in global Health & Safety governance and represent the regional function in customer and business reviews as required.
• Escalate significant risks, serious incidents, repeated control failures, and unresolved compliance issues promptly to the Global Head of Safety.

Regional Team Leadership and Capability

• Directly manage, lead, coach, and develop Regional Safety Managers, setting objectives, responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, and regional team meetings; monitor delivery against agreed objectives and address underperformance.
• Define and maintain clear geographical, site, and operational portfolios for regional team members, avoiding gaps or duplication in coverage.
• Assess team capability, competency, capacity, and resource requirements; develop and implement plans to address identified gaps.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning for the regional Health & Safety function in partnership with P&O.
• Build a consistent regional team culture that encourages collaboration, accountability, professional challenge, and sharing of best practice.
• Ensure regional and site-level Health & Safety roles have appropriate competence, authority, and access to relevant training and resources.

Health & Safety Management and Operational Risk

• Ensure effective implementation of DSV Health & Safety policies, standards, procedures, and programmes across all in-scope operations.
• Oversee regional risk assessment processes and verify that site-level assessments are suitable, current, and reviewed following material changes or incidents.
• Lead risk-based improvement initiatives using the hierarchy of controls and verify that critical controls are implemented and effective.
• Review risks associated with new business, new site launches, operational changes, increased workload, new equipment, and changes to staffing or processes.
• Ensure pre-start-up safety reviews and operational readiness assessments are completed before new or materially changed operations commence, as applicable.
• Oversee risk controls for material handling equipment, pedestrian and vehicle segregation, dock safety, lifting and movement of heavy equipment or server racks, contractor activities, permit-to-work interfaces, and other high-risk tasks relevant to the operation.
• Conduct and oversee risk-based site visits to verify implementation and effectiveness of controls, and ensure findings are addressed.
• Promote proactive hazard identification, safety observations, near-miss reporting, behavioural safety, safety campaigns, and employee engagement.

Incident Management, Investigation and Escalation

• Ensure incidents, injuries, near misses, high-potential events, property damage, and other reportable Health & Safety events are reported and escalated within DSV and customer timeframes.
• Maintain regional oversight of incident classification, notification, investigation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Lead or oversee significant and high-potential incident investigations, ensuring appropriate participation from operations and relevant subject matter experts.
• Review investigation quality and verify that root causes are identified and corrective and preventive actions are proportionate, assigned, completed, and effective.
• Monitor incident trends, repeat events, and emerging risks; develop and track regional action plans to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure lessons learned are communicated to relevant sites, regional leadership, the Global Head of Safety, and customers where required.
• Support regional response to serious incidents and emergencies, including accurate and timely executive and customer updates.

Audit, Compliance and Assurance

• Develop, manage, and maintain a risk-based regional Health & Safety audit, inspection, and assurance programme aligned with global and customer requirements.
• Conduct or oversee Health & Safety audits, compliance reviews, and management-system assessments across in-scope operations.
• Coordinate regional readiness for customer audits and external regulatory inspections, ensuring findings and commitments are managed effectively.
• Maintain oversight of applicable legal and other compliance obligations, including regional and site compliance registers where required.
• Verify implementation of DSV management-system requirements and customer-mandated standards across all operational locations.
• Monitor corrective-action plans, challenge overdue or ineffective actions, and escalate significant or repeated gaps.
• Identify systemic weaknesses and drive improvements across multiple sites rather than treating findings as isolated local issues.

Customer Health & Safety Management

• Act as the senior regional Health & Safety interface for designated key customers and their regional Health & Safety leadership.