Director, Environmental Health & Safety

About the role

CACI is hiring a Director, Manufacturing Environmental Health & Safety, a full-time enterprise-level executive responsible for safety and environmental performance across its manufacturing sites. The role owns the strategy, governance and leadership engagement model that drives a world-class safety culture, with site and manufacturing leadership visibly owning safety outcomes. It is based in Rochester and requires up to 10% local travel.

Key responsibilities

• Build a leadership engagement model that puts plant managers, operations directors and front-line supervisors in the safety loop, and develop behavior-based safety programs and observation systems.
• Own the enterprise EHS management system, set up a maturity model and site assessments, and align the system with ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and applicable OSHA/EPA and state regulations.
• Drive hazard identification and risk reduction, own environmental compliance (permitting, waste, emissions, reporting), and ensure industrial hygiene programs meet regulatory requirements.
• Lead incident investigations (root cause analysis), maintain a consistent incident classification and reporting standard, and serve as the escalation point for serious injuries, releases and high-potential near-misses.
• Own site- and enterprise-level EHS scorecards and report safety performance, culture maturity and improvement roadmaps to executive leadership and the Board.
• Build and lead the manufacturing EHS organization, including site EHS leaders, industrial hygienists, safety engineers and environmental compliance specialists, and partner with HR and Manufacturing Excellence on leader onboarding, performance management and succession planning.

Required profile

• At least 12 years of related experience, including a minimum of 10 years of progressive EHS leadership in manufacturing, with five years in aerospace and defense or a comparably regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Proven track record of improving safety KPIs across a multi-site manufacturing network.
• Experience designing a leadership engagement model that makes plant managers and supervisors personally own safety.
• Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering or a related field; CSP, CIH or equivalent certification strongly preferred.
• Ability to lead through urgency and engage personally on the floor during serious safety events.

Required skills

• Deep knowledge of OSHA, EPA and state EHS regulations for manufacturing.
• Experience with ISO 45001 and/or ISO 14001 management systems.
• Incident investigation and corrective action leadership, including regulator engagement.
• Desired: experience with behavior-based safety programs, AS9100/NADCAP environments, and benchmarking EHS organization design.

What we offer

• Proposed pay range of $114,500-$251,900, depending on location, contract category, experience, skills and education.
• Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time-off benefits.
• Flexible time off benefit and access to learning resources.