Director Health Safety

The Director, Health & Safety is Tredegar’s senior enterprise leader for health and safety strategy, governance, management systems, and performance across all manufacturing businesses, support functions, and operating locations.

This position establishes the enterprise vision, risk-reduction strategy, policies, standards, assurance processes, and performance expectations required to prevent serious injuries and fatalities, protect workforce health, and maintain regulatory compliance. The Director converts enterprise priorities into a disciplined operating system with clear accountability from executive leadership through frontline execution.

The Director serves as a strategic advisor to executive and business leadership and partners with Operations, Plant Management, Human Resources, Engineering, Environmental Leadership, Maintenance, Legal, and Finance. The role provides enterprise direction for workers’ compensation and injury care management in partnership with Human Resources, Legal, Finance, and site leadership, coordinating injury response, claims management, and return-to-work processes. The role influences capital priorities, operating decisions, talent capability, and resource allocation where material health and safety risk is present.

This role leads health and safety across Tredegar’s manufacturing footprint, including Bonnell and High-Performance Films operations, and builds a sustainable culture through visible leadership, employee ownership, disciplined execution, organizational learning, and continuous improvement. Environmental technical ownership remains a separate function, with this role providing coordination and integrated EHS governance where appropriate.

A. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise Health & Safety Strategy and Management System: 15%

Set the enterprise health and safety vision and multi-year strategy. Own Tredegar’s Health & Safety Management System, including governance, standards, policies, assurance, audits, management review, and accountability. Secure executive alignment and ensure consistent deployment across all businesses and sites.
 

Enterprise Risk Reduction and SIF Prevention: 15%

Lead the enterprise risk portfolio with priority on serious injury and fatality prevention, critical-risk controls, high-risk work, process and equipment hazards, contractor risk, and risk elimination through engineering and capital investment. Escalate material exposures and drive timely closure.
 

Executive Leadership and Safety Culture: 10%

Advise and challenge senior leaders on health and safety performance, risk, and accountability. Establish expectations for visible leadership, employee engagement, stop-work authority, learning, and ownership. Sponsor enterprise culture initiatives and measure their effectiveness.

Occupational Health, Workers’ Compensation and Injury Care Management: 10%

Provide enterprise direction for occupational health, industrial hygiene, medical surveillance, ergonomics, and workforce wellbeing. Lead workers’ compensation and injury care management in partnership with Human Resources, Legal, Finance, and site leadership, including timely injury reporting, claims oversight, coordination with insurers, claims administrators, and care providers, and medically appropriate return-to-work programs. Monitor claim trends, duration, and costs to improve care coordination and reduce recurrence while protecting employee medical confidentiality.

Compliance, Assurance and Board-Level Reporting: 10%

Maintain enterprise oversight of OSHA and other applicable requirements. Establish compliance assurance, audit protocols, corrective-action governance, and management review. Deliver concise executive and Board-level reporting on performance, critical risks, trends, and required interventions.

Incident Governance and Organizational Learning: 10%

Set enterprise requirements for reporting, classification, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and learning. Personally oversee governance for fatalities, serious injuries, high-potential events, and significant compliance matters, ensuring lessons are replicated across the enterprise.

Talent, Organization and Capability Leadership: 10%

Define the health and safety organization, competency model, staffing expectations, career paths, and succession needs. Coach business and site leaders, develop health and safety professionals, and establish leadership training and qualification expectations for critical roles.

Performance Management and Executive Governance: 10%

Own standardized scorecards, leading and lagging indicators, targets, data quality, and governance reviews. Translate performance data into enterprise priorities, intervention plans, resource decisions, and accountability actions.

Enterprise Partnership and Integrated Governance: 5%

Partner with Environmental, Operations, Engineering, Human Resources, Legal, and Finance leaders to integrate health and safety requirements into business planning, capital projects, acquisitions, change management, contractor management, and operating processes while maintaining separate environmental technical ownership.

External Benchmarking and Continuous Improvement: 5% 

Benchmark leading manufacturing practices, maintain awareness of emerging risks and regulatory developments, and institutionalize improvements across facilities. Represent Tredegar with regulators, industry groups, insurers, and external partners when appropriate.

B. TOOLS / SYSTEMS / METHODOLOGIES

Safety Management Systems

• ISO 45001
• OSHA Standards
• Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) Prevention
• Behavior-Based Safety
• Risk Assessment & Hazard Analysis
• Job Safety Analysis (JSA)
• Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
• Contractor Safety Management
• Management of Change (MOC)
• Safety Observation Programs

Health & Occupational Programs

• Industrial Hygiene
• Ergonomics
• Occupational Health, Workers’ Compensation & Injury Care Management
• Medical Surveillance Programs
• Wellness Programs

Enterprise Systems

• EHS Management Systems
• Incident Reporting Platforms
• Learning Management Systems
• Business Intelligence Platforms
• Risk Management Systems

Microsoft Applications

• Copilot
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Teams
• Power BI

C. PERSONAL PROFILE

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Education
Bachelor’s degree in; Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Environmental Health & Safety, Operations Management, or a related technical discipline preferred; candidates actively pursuing a degree in one of these disciplines, or with equivalent progressive safety leadership experience, may be considered.

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of progressive health and safety leadership experience in manufacturing, including significant enterprise or business-level responsibility.
• Preferred 3 years leading multi-site health and safety programs, with demonstrated responsibility for strategy, governance, talent, and performance across a complex organization.
• Demonstrated success designing, deploying, governing, and sustaining enterprise health and safety management systems.
• Proven success improving safety performance and safety culture across multiple manufacturing locations.
• Experience leading OSHA compliance programs and regulatory audits.
• Strong understanding of risk management and serious injury prevention methodologies.
• Proven ability to advise, influence, and hold senior operational leaders accountable within a matrix organization.
• Experience leading enterprise cultural transformation and translating strategy into measurable, sustained operating results.
• Experience developing executive and Board-level health and safety reporting and recommendations.
• Demonstrated judgment in managing significant incidents, regulatory matters, and high-consequence operational risk, including experience overseeing workers’ compensation claims, injury care coordination, and return-to-work programs in partnership with Human Resources and site leadership.
• Experience building and developing a distributed team of health and safety professionals and strengthening succession pipelines.
• Ability to integrate health and safety risk into capital planning, acquisition due diligence, operational change, and business decision-making.

Critical Leadership Competencies

• Safety Leadership
• Strategic Thinking
• Organizational Influence
• Executive Presence
• Change Leadership
• Talent Development
• Risk Management
• Communication Excellence
• Employee Engagement
• Systems Thinking
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Team Leadership

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Certifications

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
• Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH)
• OSHA Authorized Trainer
• ISO 45001 Lead Auditor

Experience

• Enterprise-wide EHS leadership.
• Global manufacturing operations.
• Aluminum extrusion, films, packaging, engineered materials, or related industries.
• Safety culture transformation programs.
• World-class safety management systems deployment.

D. KEY RESULT AREAS
Safety Performance

• Sustained reduction in TRIR and DART, supported by improved exposure-based leading indicators.
• Reduced DART rate.
• Elimination of fatalities and sustained reduction of serious injuries and high-potential events.
• Verified closure of critical risks and high-priority corrective actions within defined timeframes.
• Improved near-miss reporting participation.

Employee Health

• Reduced occupational health exposure through effective industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and medical surveillance controls.
• Reduced ergonomic injury risk.
• Enhanced employee wellbeing engagement.
• Strengthened industrial hygiene performance.
• Effective workers’ compensation and injury care management, demonstrated by timely reporting and claims coordination, medically appropriate return to work, and improved claim duration and cost outcomes without compromising quality of care.

Organizational Capability

• Consistent executive, business, and site leadership engagement with clear accountability for results.
• Improved safety competency across the enterprise.
• Expanded employee participation in safety activities.
• Strong enterprise and site health and safety talent pipeline, capability, and succession coverage.

Compliance & Governance

• Strong compliance assurance results with no repeat significant findings and effective closure of identified gaps.
• Improved corrective action closure effectiveness.
• Consistent, verified deployment of enterprise standards across all businesses and sites.
• Reduced compliance risk exposure.

Culture & Engagement
Measurable improvement in employee ownership, risk reporting, stop-work use, and participation in preventive activities.
Improved safety perception survey results.
Strong safety observation participation.
Improved cross-site learning and best-practice sharing.

ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT
The Director, Health & Safety serves as Tredegar’s enterprise authority and principal advisor for workforce health and safety, accountable for the strategy, governance, organizational capability, and management system required to control material risk across the company.

The role is expected to influence enterprise priorities and operating decisions, strengthen leadership accountability, build a high-performing health and safety organization, and deliver sustained improvement in serious-risk prevention, compliance, workforce health, and safety culture.

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