Director, Global Technology & Innovation Safety
Entegris · Aurora · $175,000–$230,000 (stated in the posting)
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Director, Global Technology & Innovation SafetyJob Description:
The Role
Entegris is seeking a Director, Global Technology & Innovation Safety to lead and advance the safety, risk, and compliance strategy across the global Materials Solutions Technology & Innovation (T&I) organization. This role serves as the functional leader responsible for establishing the vision, governance model, standards, and organizational capabilities required to ensure safe, compliant, and sustainable innovation across all T&I environments globally. The position is part of the T&I Technical Operations organization and serves as the senior safety authority for T&I worldwide while maintaining strong alignment with Corporate EHS.
This position is preferably based in Aurora, Illinois; however, for the right candidate, the role may be based at another major Entegris location or be fully remote within a region where Entegris operates. Given the global scope of responsibility, the Director is expected to travel domestically and internationally as needed to engage with T&I teams, support site initiatives, strengthen organizational capability, and ensure consistent execution of safety programs and standards across regions.
Reporting through the T&I Technical Operations organization, this role will lead a global team of regional safety leaders and serves as the primary safety advisor to T&I leadership. The Director partners closely with Corporate EHS while maintaining responsibility for T&I specific safety strategy, governance, and execution.
The role is accountable for building a world class safety culture that enables innovation while proactively managing risk across laboratories, pilot plants, technical operations, workshops, utility systems, and capital projects throughout the global T&I network. Through strategic leadership, governance, digital transformation, and capability development, this role ensures T&I maintains the highest standards of safety performance, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence globally.
What You’ll Do
Establish the Global T&I Safety Strategy and Governance Model
- Develop and own the multi-year global T&I safety strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned with business objectives.
- Establish the governance framework, standards, processes, and management systems required to drive consistent execution across all global locations.
- Lead the global T&I Safety Council and governance processes to drive accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Help define rigorous annual safety objectives, priorities, metrics, and performance expectations across the T&I organization.
- Partner with T&I and Corporate EHS leadership to align safety initiatives, standards, policies, and strategic investments.
- Serve as the senior safety advisor to T&I leadership on emerging risks, operational readiness, and strategic decisions.
- Influence enterprise safety strategy and contribute T&I best practices to the broader organization.
Own Safety, Risk, and Compliance Across T&I
- Provide strategic leadership for laboratory safety, pilot plant safety, process safety, operational risk management, and regulatory compliance activities across all T&I environments.
- Establish governance processes for high hazard work, chemical risk management, facility risk assessments, emergency preparedness, and operational readiness.
- Ensure consistent application of risk management principles throughout research, development, scale up, and technical operations activities.
- Lead enterprise level assessments of significant operational and safety risks impacting the T&I organization.
- Maintain authority to escalate significant safety concerns and recommend stop work actions when conditions present unacceptable risk.
- Partner closely with Corporate EHS to ensure alignment with corporate standards, regulatory expectations, and enterprise risk management priorities.
Drive Incident Learning, Root Cause Excellence, and Sustainable Risk Reduction
- Establish global standards and governance for incident investigation, root cause analysis (RCA), 8D methodology, corrective action management, and organizational learning across the T&I organization.
- Ensure investigations identify true systemic and organizational root causes, not merely symptoms, and translate findings into actionable lessons learned that are effectively communicated and adopted across sites.
- Drive accountability for timely closure, validation, and long term effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions, with emphasis on eliminating systemic risks through engineering, process, and organizational controls.
- Ensure lessons learned, corrective actions, and identified human, procedural, or training related gaps are systematically incorporated into standards, SOPs, onboarding programs, training curricula, and competency requirements to prevent recurrence and strengthen organizational capability.
- Monitor trends, corrective action effectiveness, and recurring failure modes to drive continuous improvement, risk reduction, and enterprise wide learning.
Build Organizational Safety Capability and Culture
- Establish and lead a global safety competency, onboarding, qualification, and leadership development framework that ensures personnel possess the knowledge, skills, and capabilities necessary to safely execute increasingly complex technical activities.
- Develop long term strategies that strengthen safety leadership, hazard recognition, risk assessment, process safety, and operational discipline across all levels of the organization.
- Foster a "Safety Always" culture where incident reporting, near miss identification, accountability, transparency, and continuous learning are expected, reinforced, and embedded in daily operations.
- Build safety capability and culture as a strategic organizational advantage that enables innovation, operational excellence, workforce engagement, and sustained business success.
Advance Digital and AI Enabled Safety Systems
- Define and execute the digital safety strategy for the global T&I organization.
- Lead deployment of advanced analytics, digital workflows, artificial intelligence, and automation technologies that improve risk identification and decision making.
- Establish safety dashboards, predictive analytics, and leading indicator systems to proactively manage risk.
- Partner with digital, IT, and EHS organizations to scale technology enabled safety solutions globally.
- Drive continuous improvement through innovative approaches that enhance efficiency, visibility, organizational learning, and risk mitigation.
Lead Global Safety Alignment and Enterprise Partnerships
- Lead alignment across T&I, EHS, Quality, Operations, Engineering, and site leadership to drive consistent execution of global safety objectives.
- Partner with Corporate EHS and business leaders to ensure alignment of T&I safety strategy with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, and business priorities.
- Build strong relationships across regions and functions to share best practices, accelerate adoption of improvements, and strengthen organizational learning.
- Facilitate cross functional alignment on strategic priorities, risk mitigation plans, corrective actions, and long term capability investments.
What We Seek
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry, or a related technical field with 12+ or more years of progressive experience in a safety, operations, engineering, technical operations, manufacturing, R&D, or related fields.
- 5+ Years of leadership experience managing managers, regional leaders, or large cross functional organizations.
- Demonstrated experience establishing organizational strategy and driving enterprise level initiatives.
- Deep expertise in risk management, incident investigation, root cause analysis, safety management systems, and regulatory compliance.
- Proven experience leading through influence across complex global organizations.
- Demonstrated success leading distributed global teams and influencing stakeholders across multiple regions, cultures, and regulatory environments.
- Experience presenting to senior leadership and executive audiences.
- Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to balance operational, technical, financial, and organizational priorities.
- Ability and willingness to travel globally as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a technical, engineering, safety, or related discipline.
- Professional certifications such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, Six Sigma Black Belt, or equivalent.
- Experience leading global safety organizations across laboratories, pilot plants, technical operations, and high hazard environments.
- Strong process safety management and high hazard operations experience.
- Experience overseeing capital projects, facility expansions, and operational readiness programs.
- Demonstrated success implementing digital transformation and AI enabled solutions.
- Experience operating within complex global regulatory environments.
- Track record of building organizational capability and developing high performing leadership teams.
- Experience within research, development, advanced materials, semiconductor, chemical processing, or manufacturing organizations.
- Experience in T&I, laboratory, or technical operations environments.
Success Measures (What Good Looks Like)
- Effective implementation of global safety governance and management systems.
- Consistent global adoption of T&I safety standards, governance requirements, and best practices.
- Significant reduction in high risk events, repeat incidents, and systemic safety vulnerabilities across the T&I organization.
- Measurable improvements in operational risk management, compliance readiness, and safety performance.
- Strong safety culture demonstrated through engagement, reporting, ownership, and risk awareness.
- Increased organizational safety capability, competency, and leadership bench strength.
- Successful execution of strategic safety initiatives and risk reduction investments.
- Effective deployment of digital and AI enabled safety capabilities that enhance organizational decision making and risk reduction.
- Strong alignment between T&I Operations and Corporate EHS objectives.
- Development of a sustainable, scalable safety organization capable of supporting future business growth and innovation.
Why Work at Entegris
Lead. Inspire. Innovate. Define Your Future.
Not everyone who works for a global company shares the same background, experiences and perspectives. We leverage the differences of our employees to bring new ideas to the table. Every employee throughout the company is encouraged to share input on projects and initiatives. Our decision-making process is truly a collaborative effort as we realize there are leaders at every level of the organization. We put our values at the core of how we operate as an organization — not just when it’s convenient, but in a lasting and meaningful way. We want the time and energy you spend here to have a positive impact on your life inside and outside of the office.
What We Offer
Our total rewards package goes above and beyond just a paycheck. Whether you’re looking to build your career, improve your health, or protect your wealth, we offer generous benefits to help you achieve your goals.
- Compensation: $175,000 - $230,000 per year range with actual pay dependent on candidate overall skills for the role
- Annual bonus eligibility
- Progressive paid time off policy that empowers you to take the time you need to recharge
- Generous 401(K) plan with an impressive employer match with no delayed vesting
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance packages to fit your needs
- Education assistance to support your learning journey
- A values-driven culture with colleagues that rally around People, Accountability, Creativity and Excellence
Entegris does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need Entegris immigration sponsorship (e.g., H1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) now or in the future.
At Entegris we are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants. Our policy is to recruit, hire, train, and reward employees for their individual abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, marital or military status.
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