Regional EHS Director Americas (Mebane, NC)

About the role

At JTI we celebrate differences, and everyone truly belongs. 46,000 people from all over the world are continuously building their unique success story with us. 83% of employees feel happy working at JTI. To make a difference with us, all you need to do is bring your human best. What will your story be?

This position is established to lead EHS at Regional level, a member of the Regional Supply Chain leadership team, contributing to the Regional GSC strategy development and thought leadership, being accountable for setting and driving execution of the Environmental and H&S strategies within the regional manufacturing sites and warehouses, delivering on MGSM commitments (RIR

Responsibilities

• Establish regional GSC EHS startegy implementation roadmap in collaboration with Regional Supply Chain leadership team and factory EHS Leads to drive year over year performance improvement.
• Implement regional and site specific strategic KPI's and processes to determine performance and capabilities.
• Partner with GSC Health & Safety and GSC Environmental Sustainability functions to contribute to GSC EHS global strategy;
• Drive the Regional EHS PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) drumbeat with site EHS Leads to drive effective execution of global EHS Pillar tools and work processes, track regional performance, identify improvement opportunities and correct possible deviations.
• Ensure all site EHS leads with the region, their teams and DMSO’s (Daily Management System Owners) are qualified;
• Establish and maintain a strong safety culture within the region, engaging leaders to role model Safety and constantly send a clear message that safety is not negotiable.
• Ensure safety is visible at all times, promoting open communication about safety concerns, and recognizing and rewarding safe behaviors;
• Execute a proactive accident prevention program that includes risk management (identification, assessment and control), inspections, audits, and emergency planning.
• Lead incident investigation program at regional level to eliminate incidents.
• Review incident reports, driving to root cause and evaluating the need for potential changes to current global policies and procedures.
• Ensure learnings from all incidents are reapplied in relevant factories in a timely manner;
• Deploy global safety training matrix to all sites and people within the region and ensure proper qualification.
• Challenge, coach and support Factory and EHS site Leads across the region and establish regular visit to sites (at least once per year) for better capability tracking, support and calibration;