Sr. Director Environmental Health & Safety

At Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where your unique viewpoint matters, harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement to turn ideas into impact at the speed of life.

Our team is united by a commitment to collaboration and scientific excellence, building on a strong foundation of innovation, expertise, and reliability. Guided by our vision to help researchers rapidly move from the lab to life-changing advances, we work closely with global partners to accelerate progress and genomics breakthroughs across fields like cancer, infectious disease, rare genetic disorders, and more.

About the role

The Senior Director, Environmental Health & Services is responsible for planning, directing, and implementing environmental, health and safety (EH&S) programs to ensure compliance, reduce risk, and identify and resolve EH&S program gaps and deficiencies. This role has global responsibility for developing EH&S and environmental sustainability management strategies and directing EH&S resources across IDT. The scope covers Manufacturing Sites (Coralville, IA; San Diego, CA; Raleigh, NC; Boulder, CO; Fargo, ND; Madison, WI; Leuven, Belgium and Singapore), Regional Sales, Research, Service & Warehouse facilities.

This position reports to the Vice President, Global Operations and is part of the Operations Department located in Coralville, IA; San Diego, CA; Raleigh, NC; Boulder, CO; Fargo, ND; or Madison, WI. The role is on-site and can be based at any of these locations.

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, and implements an EH&S and environmental sustainability management strategy, programs, policies, and procedures for IDT globally.
• Ensures the company’s full compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and customer requirements through the implementation of compliance programs and standard work for the management and preparation and submission of environmental reports.
• Leads a global, facility EH&S review process to help management detect accident/health hazards and determine corrective or preventative measures, following up to ensure measures have been implemented and are producing the desired results.
• Ensures that the EH&S team globally remains up-to-date and conversant with relevant laws, regulations, and other statutory requirements that impact EH&S across their local areas of responsibility.
• Leads and coordinates all OpCo, Danaher, and external EH&S audits of IDT globally (e.g., FM Global), develops action plans to resolve findings, and implements countermeasures promptly and effectively.
• Serves as the IDT Global contact for relevant government agencies, the Danaher point of contact for IDT, and the IDT representative on the Danaher EH&S Operations Leadership Council (“EH&SOLC”).
• Provides leadership on EH&S issues, assists IDT top management in understanding business impacts of EH&S issues, enabling prudent allocation of resources and decision-making, and helps implement corrective measures to improve each site’s EH&S performance against goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Proven track record of driving the EH&S agenda in a multi-site, global manufacturing organization.
• Ability to engage the workforce at all levels in building a strong EH&S culture and a collaborative team-oriented approach to EH&S management across the business.
• Broad EH&S experience, including working-level subject matter expertise, project/process leadership, and department or functional area management.
• Must reside in the U.S. with frequent travel to Coralville; relocation to Iowa preferred.
• Travel estimated at 40-50%, including 10% global travel.
• Ability to view issues in a systematic and logical way.

Preferred Qualifications

• EH&S-related licenses, certifications, and/or membership in EH&S professional associations.
• Experience with Mergers and Acquisitions (due diligence and integration) and risk and liability management.
• Demonstrated experience leading Business Continuity Planning and supervision of BCP team and activities.

Benefits

IDT, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives, including health care programs and paid time off. Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan for eligible employees.

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $170,000–$240,000. This range may be modified in the future. The role is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.