Director Environment Health Safety

Professional Recruiter with Insight Global

Job Description:

• Insight Global is looking to hire a Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) SME to sit in a hybrid environment in Frederick or Gaithersburg, MD. This individual will be responsible for providing expert EHS leadership during the earliest phases of capital project development. This role ensures that safety, health, and environmental requirements are embedded into business cases, front-end loading (FEL) deliverables, and concept design packages to prevent late-stage rework, reduce lifecycle risk, and enable compliant, operable, and maintainable facilities.
• Key Responsibilities Include:
• EHS Integration:
  Define SHE requirements for concept/FEL studies, basis of design, and user specs to ensure safety, operability, and maintainability.
• Risk Assessment:
  Plan and lead early risk reviews (HAZID, HAZOP, battery limits, LOPA); translate outcomes into design requirements and risk registers.
• Regulatory Compliance:
  Identify applicable regulations and codes (OSHA, EPA, NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, local/state rules); align designs with permitting pathways.
• Design Criteria:
  Author EHS design standards for life safety, egress, hazardous area classification, ventilation, effluent segregation, flammable storage, cryogen and pressure systems, waste handling.
• Process Safety:
  Promote inherently safer design (elimination, minimization, segregation); address containment strategies and utilities resilience.
• Environmental Design:
  Integrate controls for emissions, wastewater, stormwater, waste minimization, energy/water efficiency, and sustainability goals.
• Human Factors:
  Embed ergonomics, access/egress, material handling, and maintainability to reduce operational risk and injuries.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Real Estate, and PM; present SHE requirements and risk mitigations to governance.
• Documentation:
  Deliver concept-phase SHE outputs (Basis of Design, risk assessments, deviation logs, permitting strategy, emergency response concepts).
• Cost &
  
  Schedule:
  
  Provide SHE input to cost models and schedules; identify compliance-driven contingencies and constructability impacts.
• Vendor Review:
  Evaluate technologies and layouts for SHE compliance; set acceptance criteria for packages (skids, HVAC, utilities, storage, effluent treatment).
• Change Control:
  Maintain Management of Change discipline for SHE impacts of scope/design changes.
• Readiness & Handover:
  Define SHE readiness for design progression; hand over requirements and risk actions to downstream teams.
• Audit & Lessons Learned:
  Capture lessons from prior projects; conduct concept-stage reviews; improve standards continuously.

• Mid-Senior level

• Contract

• Quality Assurance
• Industries:
  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing