Corporate Director, Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)
BUILD THE SYSTEM. DEVELOP THE PEOPLE. RAISE THE STANDARD.
Enterprise EHS strategy, governance, compliance assurance, and risk reduction across a multi-site manufacturing organization
This is an opportunity to shape how EHS works across an entire manufacturing organization—not simply maintain a program that already exists.
Flow Control Holdings (FCH) is seeking an enterprise-minded EHS leader who can translate regulatory requirements and operational risk into clear standards, reliable systems, and practical action. As Corporate Director of EHS, you will partner with executives, site leaders, and cross-functional teams to prevent serious incidents, strengthen environmental compliance, and make EHS accountability part of everyday operational decision-making.
The right candidate combines deep manufacturing EHS expertise with the judgment and influence to challenge leaders constructively, develop site capability, and escalate material risk when necessary. You will serve as FCH's primary EHS technical resource while creating the governance, data, auditing, and corrective-action systems needed for consistent execution across locations.
Why Flow Control Holdings
FCH provides sanitary flow components and engineered solutions used in data center cooling, food and beverage processing, and pharmaceutical applications. Our operating divisions help bring the bytes, bites, sips, and doses of everyday living to life. We differentiate ourselves through superior service, technical expertise, and a commitment to simplicity in demanding environments.
Our values—Integrity, Trust, Creativity and Courage, Teamwork, and Excellence—shape how we work. We are looking for an EHS leader who listens respectfully, protects confidentiality, collaborates across functions, and has the courage to raise concerns and drive meaningful improvement.
Learn more about FCH at www.fchinc.com.
What You Will Lead
- Enterprise strategy and governance: Develop the company-wide EHS strategy and establish corporate policies, standards, decision rights, and accountability across manufacturing locations.
- Compliance assurance: Build and maintain a risk-based system that includes site-specific regulatory registers, compliance calendars, self-assessments, corporate audits, corrective-action tracking, due-date escalation, effectiveness verification, and management review.
- Regulatory leadership: Interpret evolving federal, state, and local requirements; guide permitting, reporting, agency inspections, regulatory correspondence, and recordkeeping; and communicate business impacts to leaders and site teams.
- Critical-risk reduction: Lead risk assessments and oversee investigations of injuries, illnesses, near misses, and environmental events to identify root causes, systemic risk, and lessons that can be applied across the organization.
- Management of change: Establish EHS review requirements for new equipment, chemicals, processes, construction, facility modifications, and capital projects before startup or implementation.
- Emergency preparedness: Set and periodically test company requirements for fire and life safety, spills or releases, severe events, evacuation, and coordination with emergency responders.
- Leadership and capability building: Coach site EHS professionals through a dotted-line relationship, strengthen leadership and employee capability, and provide governance for effective site safety committees.
- Performance and systems: Own EHS data governance, KPIs, dashboards, reporting protocols, document control, and EHS information-management tools so leaders can act on accurate, timely information.
- Resource stewardship: Prioritize EHS budgets, capital needs, vendors, safety equipment standards, and improvement initiatives in partnership with Operations, Engineering, Facilities, HR, and site leadership.
What Success Looks Like
- Leaders understand their EHS responsibilities, material risks are visible, and accountability is clear at every location.
- Corporate standards and site-level requirements are implemented consistently without losing practical fit for local operations.
- Compliance obligations, permits, inspections, filings, renewals, and corrective actions are tracked and completed on time.
- Serious-injury and environmental risks are identified early, addressed at the right level, and escalated when unresolved.
- Executives receive trusted EHS data, clear trend analysis, and actionable priorities—not simply activity reports.
- Site EHS professionals and operational leaders become more capable, engaged, and consistent in execution.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, engineering, science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive EHS experience in manufacturing, including demonstrated leadership across multiple sites.
- Hands-on expertise interpreting and implementing OSHA requirements and recordkeeping, environmental permitting and compliance, hazardous waste, air, water and stormwater requirements, chemical reporting, and DOT hazardous-material requirements, as applicable.
- Demonstrated success with EHS audits and compliance assurance, incident investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective-action systems, regulatory submissions, agency inspections, and EHS metrics and data governance.
- Strong systems thinking, regulatory judgment, data-analysis capability, and attention to detail.
- The communication and leadership presence to influence executives, operational leaders, site teams, and indirect reports while addressing difficult issues with clarity and respect.
- Ability to travel approximately 25% by air and car; a valid driver's license is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in a relevant field.
- CSP, CIH, CHMM, PE, or another recognized EHS professional certification.
- Experience selecting, implementing, or administering EHS information-management software.
- Experience supporting Continuous Improvement, Lean, and 5S initiatives.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements
This role works in a fast-paced manufacturing environment that may include exposure to noise and varying temperatures. It requires the ability to safely navigate manufacturing facilities; frequently stand and walk; occasionally bend, stoop, push, pull, and lift up to 25 pounds; and spend extended periods using a computer and office equipment. Regular, consistent attendance is required. Reasonable accommodations may be requested by qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the role.
Ready to Make an Enterprise Impact?
If you are a strategic EHS leader who can build scalable systems, earn trust on the manufacturing floor, and help leaders act decisively on risk, we would like to hear from you.
