Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Director Environmental Health Safety and Security today with HealthTrust Supply Chain.

Job Summary And Qualifications

The DC EHSS Director is responsible for leading safety, security, and asset protection initiatives for the distribution center network. Key duties include risk mitigation, incident response, loss control, and compliance with OSHA and other regulations. Candidates should have a background in safety or occupational health, with prior experience in distribution centers. Key duties include risk mitigation, incident response, loss control, and compliance with OSHA and other regulations. The role requires strong leadership, problem-solving skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. Certifications such as Associate Safety Professional, Wicklander-Zulawski, Six Sigma, or LPQ/LPC are highly desirable. The position involves collaboration with leadership, conducting audits, and maintaining compliance with environmental and safety programs. The Director of Environmental, Health, Safety & Security (EHSS) is an integral part of the leadership team and is responsible for leading efforts that ensure the safety and security of the workplace for colleagues, visitors and vendors.  The EHSS Director is responsible for risk mitigation, planning for and providing real-time support and communication should there be a security breach or any other critical safety event at any distribution center.  The EHSS Director is accountable for reducing TM injury rates, security, shrink/damage control and helping improve the inventory accuracy of the DC network.  This position requires the ability to influence, teach, coach and train others. In addition, the EHSS Director is responsible for ensuring operational and procedural compliance, auditing, hazmat compliance, conducting investigations, managing and proposing solutions to mitigate injuries/losses as well as presenting key findings to leadership. Core duties and responsibilities of the position are outlined below; however, duties may change at any time to support the needs of the business.

What you will do:

Maintain and develop partnerships with DC leadership, CSC and cross functional teams
Develop site specific loss control strategies to prevent and reduce hazards and losses for DC enterprise.
Investigate the cause of incidents, including injuries, shrink/inventory concerns, security threats, powered industrial truck incidents, and near misses, and partner with DC leadership to develop corrective measures and controls.
Assist with property protection controls, including fire protection standards & controls, disaster and continuity plans and training along with coordinating external fire & risk inspections.
Actively support, coordinate and promote the company’s safety, ethics and integrity programs.
Prepare and present training courses and educate team on safety, shrink, inventory control along with how to prepare and respond to critical incidents – Hazmat, Weather, Active Shooter, Civil Unrest, etc.
Help maintain current required OSHA programs and provide management with this information for dissemination.

What you will need:

Bachelor’s degree in safety, occupational health or equivalent experience required
3-5 years related work in EHSS required
Knowledge of OSHA, DOT, and Hazardous Materials regulations required
Bi-lingual Spanish preferred
Associate Safety Professional preferred
Lean Six Sigma/LPQualified (LPQ)/LPCertified (LPC) preferred

Benefits

HealthTrust Supply Chain, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HealthTrust Supply Chain is a critical part of HCA Healthcare's strategy. Our focus is to improve performance and reduce costs. We do this by joining non-clinical and administrative functions. HealthTrust Supply Chain best practice methodologies. We develop, apply and monitor cost-efficient initiatives and programs for HCA Healthcare. By improving facility efficiency, medical professionals can focus on our mission - patient care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Director Environmental Health Safety and Security opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

HCA Healthcare

Latest Jobs

Director Environmental Health Safety and Security