Posting Period
From October 28, 2026
to November 30, 2026
Country or region
United States
Location
May vary
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Pembroke, New Hampshire
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Wahpeton, North Dakota
Business Unit
Baking
Department
Production / Operations
Entry date
As soon as possible
Job Status
Permanent - Full time
Minimal required work experience
5 years
Minimal education level required
Bachelor's Degree
Salary
To be determined
Benefits
Competitive social benefits
DIRECTOR, HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT
Main Functions
The Director, Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) provides strategic and functional leadership for occupational health, workplace safety, and environmental stewardship across North American Baking.
The role establishes the NAB HSE vision, governance framework, standards, and performance expectations; enables site leadership to meet applicable legal and company requirements; and drives a proactive culture focused on preventing injuries, occupational illnesses, environmental incidents, and operational disruption.
The Director serves as the senior NAB resource for HSE risk, compliance, management systems, incident escalation, environmental performance, and continuous improvement across manufacturing and supporting operations in the United States and Canada.
Direct Reporting
Reports to: VP Operations, North American Baking.
Provides functional leadership and direction to site HSE personnel and designated environmental resources. Final direct-report structure is determined by NAB organizational design.
Essential Functions
HSE Strategy and Governance: Develop and maintain a multi-year NAB HSE strategy, annual priorities, policies, standards, and minimum operating requirements aligned with business objectives and company expectations. Translate strategy into measurable site plans and clear accountability.
Leadership and Culture: Partner with executives, Directors, Plant Managers, functional leaders, and employees to strengthen visible leadership, employee engagement, reporting, learning, and safe and environmentally responsible behaviors. Coach site leaders and HSE professionals.
Regulatory Compliance: Establish processes to identify, interpret, and comply with applicable federal, state, provincial, and local occupational health, safety, and environmental requirements. Maintain oversight of permits, required records, regulatory submissions, monitoring, inspections, and corrective actions.
Risk Assessment and Critical Controls: Direct enterprise and site-level risk assessment processes for occupational hazards, process and chemical risks, environmental aspects, waste, emissions, wastewater and effluent, spill prevention, emergency conditions, and contractor activities. Ensure critical controls are defined, verified, and sustained.
Environmental Management and Stewardship: Lead NAB environmental programs and improvement plans, including environmental compliance, ISO 14001 principles, water and effluent management, waste minimization, chemical handling and storage, spill prevention and response, land application where applicable, and environmental monitoring.
Incident Management and Learning: Define requirements for reporting, escalation, investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and organizational learning for injuries, near misses, occupational illnesses, environmental deviations, spills, releases, and regulatory events. Lead or oversee investigations of significant events.
Management Systems, Audits and Assurance: Develop and maintain an integrated HSE management system within the NAB Business Management System. Establish audit and assurance programs, evaluate site performance, verify closure and effectiveness of corrective actions, and report material gaps to leadership.
Performance Measurement and Executive Reporting: Define leading and lagging indicators, normalize and analyze HSE data, identify trends and systemic risks, and provide concise performance reporting and recommendations to NAB leadership. Facilitate periodic management reviews.
Capability, Training and Communication: Establish the NAB HSE competency and training framework. Ensure role-specific training, emergency preparedness, regulatory awareness, and leader capability are effectively implemented and periodically evaluated.
Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Support: Set expectations for emergency response, business continuity interfaces, drills, and communication. Provide senior HSE support during significant incidents and coordinate with internal stakeholders, regulators, responders, and technical experts as appropriate.
Capital Projects and Management of Change: Embed HSE and environmental requirements into engineering design, capital approval, equipment installation, process changes, acquisitions, and facility modifications. Ensure appropriate risk reviews, permitting, commissioning controls, and pre-startup readiness.
Budget and Resource Management: Develop and manage the NAB HSE budget and recommend priorities for compliance, risk reduction, training, monitoring, and capital investment. Provide functional direction to site HSE resources and external consultants.
External and Regulatory Representation: Serve as a senior NAB contact for HSE matters and, when designated, represent the business with regulatory authorities, auditors, insurers, industry groups, and external technical partners.
Continuous Improvement: Benchmark performance, share best practices across sites, and sponsor improvement initiatives that reduce risk, strengthen compliance, improve waste and resource efficiency, and support reliable plant operation without compromising HSE standards.
Scope and Key Relationships
Business scope: North American Baking manufacturing sites and designated supporting operations in the United States and Canada.
Primary relationships: VP Operations, NAB leadership team, Directors, Plant Managers, Engineering, Human Resources, Quality, Maintenance, Operations, site HSE resources, employees, and external agencies or technical partners.
Environmental Requirements
Work is performed in office, manufacturing, utility, warehousing, wastewater, outdoor, and other operational environments associated with yeast and baking-ingredient production.
Plant work may require hearing protection and other personal protective equipment.
Work may involve exposure to seasonal weather, production odors, noise, uneven surfaces, chemicals, wastewater or effluent areas, and active industrial operations, with controls and PPE applied as required.
Frequent travel between NAB locations is required.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described are representative of those required to perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing this role, the employee is:
frequently required to sit, talk, hear, and use a computer;
regularly required to walk through manufacturing and outdoor operational areas and occasionally stand for extended periods;
regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle objects, tools, controls, and personal protective equipment;
occasionally required to climb stairs or access operational areas, subject to site requirements;
occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds;
required to use close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Role Success Measures
Consistent implementation of NAB HSE standards and timely closure of material compliance and audit findings.
Reduction in serious injury and environmental risk through verified critical controls and effective corrective actions.
Reliable regulatory compliance, permit management, environmental monitoring, and recordkeeping.
Improved quality and use of leading indicators, trend analysis, management reviews, and site accountability.
Increased leadership engagement, workforce participation, HSE capability, and cross-site sharing of effective practices.
Technical skills
Required
Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety, environmental science or engineering, industrial hygiene, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive HSE experience in manufacturing or a comparable industrial environment, including multi-site responsibility, preferred.
Minimum of five (5) years leading HSE professionals, programs, or cross-functional teams, preferred.
Experience supporting operations in both the United States and Canada is preferred.
Relevant professional certification such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, CRSP, NEBOSH, or an equivalent recognized credential is preferred.
Lead auditor or implementation experience with ISO 14001 and/or ISO 45001 is preferred.
Comprehensive knowledge of occupational health and safety programs, hazard identification, risk control strategies, incident investigation, emergency management, and applicable U.S. and Canadian regulatory frameworks.
Strong knowledge of environmental management, environmental legislation, permitting, monitoring, wastewater and effluent controls, waste management, chemical handling and storage, spill prevention, and ISO 14001 principles.
Demonstrated ability to build governance systems, define standards, lead audits, manage corrective actions, and drive sustainable continuous improvement.
Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills for diverse audiences, including employees, site leaders, executives, regulators, and external partners.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and relevant HSE reporting, document-control, and data-management systems.
Personal abilities
Required
Strategic leadership capability with the judgment to balance legal compliance, risk reduction, operational continuity, and business priorities.
Ability to influence across multiple sites and organizational levels without relying solely on direct authority.
Ability to analyze complex data, identify trends and systemic risks, and convert findings into practical actions and executive-level recommendations.
Strong organizational, prioritization, delegation, decision-making, and project-management skills. Able to work independently and lead cross-functional teams.
High professional integrity, discretion, accountability, and attention to detail.
General criteria
Required
Location and travel: Approximately 60–70% travel to designated NAB sites, including locations identified by the business in the United States and Canada.
Organization
Lallemand is a privately held Canadian company founded in the late 19th century, which develops, produces, and markets microorganisms for various markets. The administrative offices of the parent company are in Montreal, Canada. Today, Lallemand employs more than 6,500 people working in more than 45 countries on 5 continents.
Lallemand Baking offers a range of superior quality baker's yeast – both fresh and dry varieties – and specialty ingredients to meet bakers' needs across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Baking cultures and dough conditioners round out our impressive product range.
The Lallemand baking team's many branches collaborate closely to provide innovative products and efficient services, backed by a skilled technical support team in each region of operations.
Please take note that accommodations will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
The posting lists Baltimore, Memphis, Pembroke (New Hampshire), Rhinelander (Wisconsin) and Wahpeton (North Dakota) as possible locations. Approximately 60–70% travel to designated North American Baking sites in the United States and Canada; no unrestricted remote arrangement is stated.
