Evonik

Global specialty chemicals manufacturer and supplier

Associate Director - Environment, Safety & Health

Environmental Health & SafetyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeDombivli, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Safety, Health & Environment, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or an equivalent discipline.
10–12 years of relevant Environment, Health & Safety experience, including sound knowledge of safety, health, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
In-depth understanding of EHS regulations, compliance requirements, and industry best practices.
Experience implementing and monitoring safety, health, and environmental management systems.
Proven ability to liaise and coordinate with government authorities, regulatory bodies, and external agencies.
Knowledge of risk assessment, incident investigation, audit management, and compliance reporting.
Strong organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
Ability to work independently and manage priorities in a self-organized manner.
Experience collaborating effectively with remote and cross-functional teams.
Ability to influence stakeholders and drive EHS initiatives across the organization.

Responsibilities

Standardize ESH practices at ECI and develop, implement, and drive strategic and operational ESHQ leadership.
Set the direction for the ESHQ program by improving or introducing policies, quality standards, procedures, practices, and parameters, and manage their execution.
Maintain a safe working environment at the site.
Implement Evonik’s Safety, Health & Environment Policy and plan, establish, implement, and maintain occupational health, safety, and environmental programs to assure the highest possible degree of safety for employees.
Develop, implement, and maintain the organization’s Quality Management System and Environment Management System.
Direct environmental compliance programs related to hazardous wastes, air permitting, and water pollution control.
Design and impart training to nurture an injury-free organization.
Lead and support safety initiatives and processes to drive toward zero recordable injuries.
Ensure effective implementation of QMS as per ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 to achieve set objectives.
Assist with new employee occupational health, safety, and environmental orientation and ensure periodic employee health checkups.
Conduct Safety Committee meetings and lead and support safety initiatives and processes to drive toward zero recordable injuries.
Act as a core Emergency Response Team member to handle emergencies.
Implement and maintain the environmental management system.
Continuously follow up on and enhance the S.A.F.E. score.
Ensure that the workplace remains continually safe.
Interview employees to obtain information about work environments and workplace incidents.
Prepare and monitor the EHSQ budget.
Monitor, support, and guide the timely completion of all EHS activities.
Promote customer focus within the department, as applicable.
Ensure compliance with workplace safety standards, including PPE requirements in the working environment.
Handle ESHQ audits and coordinate other site audits.
Coordinate with statutory authorities on regulatory topics.
Manage site security topics.
Standardize practices at the site as Catalysts India ESH Coordinator.
Develop and monitor ESH objectives and targets.
Support ESH due diligence for the site.
Investigate major incidents at the company and report them to management.
Support APS and corporate ESH in executing the ESTER project at the site.
Follow up on audit observations and recommendations.
Establish ESH communication within the site to share best practices and lessons learned.
Drive implementation of the Safety at Evonik – Basic Principles of Safe Behavior program at the site.
Ensure the Emergency Communication team is established at the site and knows the press communication tools; support the team during emergency situations.

Desired Qualifications

Hands-on experience in a chemical, manufacturing, or process industry environment.
Strong regulatory and statutory compliance exposure.
Demonstrated success managing multiple stakeholders, including government and regulatory authorities.
Ability to drive a strong safety culture within the organization.

What we offer

At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.

Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!

Find out more about the many benefits we offer:

https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html

Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik:

https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html

Job Title : Associate Director – ESH

Reporting to : Head of Operations

Entity : Evonik Catalysts India Pvt. Ltd.

Work location : Dombivli

Purpose of the position :

To standardize ESH practices at ECI.
To develop, implement, and drive strategic and operational ESHQ leadership.
The incumbent sets the direction for the ESHQ program to improve or introduce new policies, set quality standards, procedures, practices, parameters and manages its execution.

Key Responsibilities:

Maintain a safe working environment at site.
Implementation of Evonik’s Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Policy. Planning, establishing, implementing, and maintaining a variety of Occupational health, safety, environmental programs to assure the highest possible degree of safety for employees.
Responsible for overall development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization’s Quality Management System (QMS) & Environment Management System (EMS).
Direct environmental compliance programs related to hazardous wastes, air permitting, and water pollution control.
Design & impart training to nurture an Injury free Organization.
Lead and support safety initiatives and processes to drive towards zero recordable injuries.
Ensure effective implementation of QMS as per ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 to achieve set objectives.
Assist in new employee occupational health, safety and environmental orientation. Ensure periodical health checkup of employees.
Conduct Safety Committee meetings. Lead and support safety initiatives and processes to drive towards zero recordable injuries.
Act as a core Emergency Response Team member to handle emergency.
Implementation and maintenance of the environmental management system.
Continuous follow up and enhancing the S.A.F.E. score.
Practice of ensuring that a workplace is continually safe.
Interview employees to obtain information about work environments and workplace incidents.
EHSQ budget preparation and monitoring.
Monitoring, supporting, guiding for meeting timeline of all the EHS activities.
Ensure promotion of customer focus within the department, as applicable.
Ensure compliance of Safety standards at workplace including PPE’s in working environment.
Responsible for handling ESHQ audit and coordinating other site audits.
Coordination with statutory authorities for regulatory topics.
Manage the site security topics

Catalysts India ESH Coordinator-

Standardize practices at site.
Develop and monitor ESH objectives and targets.
Support ESH due diligence for the site.
Investigate major incidents at Company and report to management.
Supporting APS and corporate ESH for execution of ESTER project at site.
Follow-up on audit observations and recommendations.
Establish ESH communication within site to share best practices and lesson learned.
Drive ‘Safety at Evonik- Basic Principles of Safe Behavior’ program implementation at site.
Ensure ‘Emergency Communication’ team established at site and known of press communication tools. Provide support to team in case of emergency situations.

Education & Experience Required

Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Health & Environment (SHE), Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or an equivalent discipline.
10-12 years of relevant experience in Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), including sound knowledge of safety, health, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Technical & Functional Expertise

In-depth understanding of EHS regulations, compliance requirements, and industry best practices.
Experience in implementing and monitoring safety, health, and environmental management systems.
Proven ability to liaise and coordinate with government authorities, regulatory bodies, and external agencies.
Knowledge of risk assessment, incident investigation, audit management, and compliance reporting.

Additional Skills & Competencies

Strong organizational, planning, and coordination skills.
Ability to work independently and manage priorities in a self-organized manner.
Experience collaborating effectively with remote and cross-functional teams.
Strong team player with excellent communication and relationship management skills.
Ability to influence stakeholders and drive EHS initiatives across the organization.

Preferred Candidate Profile

Hands-on experience in a chemical, manufacturing, or process industry environment.
Strong regulatory and statutory compliance exposure.
Demonstrated success in managing multiple stakeholders, including government and regulatory authorities.
Proactive, solution-oriented, and capable of driving a strong safety culture within the organization.

Your Application

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager:

Sagar Khedekar

Company is

Evonik Catalysts Ind

About the Company

Evonik

Global specialty chemicals manufacturer and supplier

Evonik is a global specialty chemicals company that makes high-value ingredients used in everyday products, such as cars, footwear, and animal feed. Its products are designed to enhance performance by providing tailored chemical solutions across multiple industries and applications. Evonik operates in more than 100 countries, producing specialty chemicals through advanced formulations and manufacturing processes that meet specific customer needs. The company differentiates itself by its focused strategy on high-margin specialty chemicals after restructuring, its large, multinational manufacturing footprint, and ongoing efficiency-improvement efforts that paused major acquisitions through 2027 to prioritize internal transformation. The goal is to strengthen its leadership in specialty chemicals and sustain profitable growth by delivering specialized ingredients and performance materials while improving operational efficiency.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Essen, Germany
Founded: 2007

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