At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves. For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials. Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers.

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team.

+ Strategic Mindset – anticipates future trends and implications accurately

+ Decision Quality – relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment when making decisions

+ Customer Focus – identifies opportunities that benefit the business

+ Business Insight – keeps up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends in the organization, function, and in the marketplace

+ Plans and Aligns – breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions

+ Optimizes Work Processes – seeks ways to improve processes, from small tweaks to complete reengineering

+ Ensures Accountability – establishes clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results

+ Collaborates – works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives

+ Develops Talent – develops others through coaching, feedback, exposure, and stretch assignments

+ Builds Effective Teams – forms teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience

+ Drives Vision and Purpose – talks about future possibilities in a positive way

+ Courage – faces difficult issues and supports others who do the same

Reporting to our VP, EHS, this position will lead and be responsible for all aspects of our safety, health, and environmental programs. As such, this role will lead a direct and matrixed team responsible for all aspects of our safety and health programs to develop, promote, monitor and manage a proactive safety culture throughout our organization. Critical aspects include managing compliance and directing the development, deployment, and most importantly, the continuous improvement of our safety and health management systems.

This role will work with our directly engaged Board of Directors, CEO, Executive Leadership, and team members throughout our organization to be a safety change agent in our growing business. Therefore a demonstrated leadership presence and the ability to build strong relationships throughout the entire organization is an absolute must.

Duties & Responsibilities

+ Responsible for developing, promoting, and implementing a proactive, positive safety culture throughout our organization through listening, partnership, engagement, and leadership

+ Drive awareness and accountability for Safety and Health performance through all levels of our organization. Provide support across responsible functional teams, including our Safety Manager and matrixed Regional Safety Coordinators to assure compliance with internal and external requirements

+ Develop, strengthen, and sustain productive and collaborative working relationships at all levels of the organization in an effort to promote proactive and consistent use of the Safety Organization.

+ Establish and implement Global Safety and Health goals and objectives aligned with company and operational goals and objectives

+ Partner with internal and external resources to identify and implement improvements to our manufacturing and logistics equipment and processes to reduce risk of injury through integration of safety and ergonomic improvements into equipment design.

+ Drive continuous improvement in the implementation of systems to collect, monitor, analyze, and evaluate predictive and lagging indicators that measure and report on the effectiveness of our programs and reduce process variance. Facilitate consistent real time reporting and sharing of safety matters, tools, etc.

+ Collaborate with site leadership and risk management to manage the reporting and investigation of all accidents/incidents and ensure effective corrective measures are implemented

+ Lead our company’s environmental management programs, processes, and compliance

+ Ensure regulatory compliance with country, state, and local regulations by staying current on potential impact of proposed legislation and develop plans for compliance

+ Design and monitor effective safety training for existing and new hire employees

The Qualifications

+ Ten to fifteen (10 - 15) years of progressively responsible safety and health experience at both a site and enterprise level.

+ Experience in the design, management, and administration of safety and health programs resulting in a transformed safety culture

+ Possesses relentless passion and tenacity on proactive safety culture with the ability to constructively and accountably translate into behavioral and procedural improvement, engagement, and results throughout an organization

+ Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to identify, monitor, and respond to developing internal and external trends across a broad array of safety, health, and environmental programs.

+ Comprehensive knowledge of Federal and State regulations impacting safety and health programs.

+ Tactical expertise and knowledge of safety program systems, processes and tools, gained through a career of increasing responsibility in safety.

+ Superior organizational, project/process management, kaizen, six sigma, root cause analysis and technical skills as demonstrated by an ability to manage multiple detailed projects and drive towards deadlines.

+ Related licenses, certifications, and/or memberships in professional associations preferred

+ Bachelor’s degree in related field is required.

+ Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

The Person (Highest Priority)

The successful candidate must bring high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values that complement the team

A collaborative leader who is confident and assertive in style, but respectful of others. Team-oriented with the ability to build deep relationships and earn the respect of others

+ A critical thinker with a continuous improvement approach to completing work

+ Possesses strong technical, project & time management, and analytical skills

+ Ability to foster strong team morale and brings fun to the workplace; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue

+ Models our ADS Leadership Attributes:

Sets our Agenda

+ Develops distinctive and vivid strategies and goals

+ Translates and communicates strategy into simple, actionable plans, priorities, and trade-offs

+ Anticipates and foresees obstacles and opportunities

+ Aligns the organization by establishing a compelling sense of purpose and mission

+ Conveys an unwavering firmness and consistency in actions

+ Maintains a long-term global view while managing day-to-day issues

Raises the Bar

+ Sets high expectations for the business, people, and self

+ Communicates expectations directly, openly, and timely

+ Drives accountability for continuous improvement

+ Measures and monitors progress and results

+ Quickly makes hard choices and difficult decisions

+ Develops teams of high caliber people with diverse capabilities

+ Coaches team and people how to stretch and excel

Inspires Others

+ Creates a confident, innovative, and winning atmosphere

+ Visible and out-front with leadership presence

+ Energizes and excites the team through listening and showing a genuine caring for the team and team members

+ Takes work seriously but not themselves – knows how to have fun

+ Empowers people with the opportunity and latitude to grow, take risks, make mistakes, contribute and learn

+ Recognize and reward individuals along the way and celebrates milestones

Finds a Way

+ Relentless, resilient, and fierce in approach to winning

+ Breaks down barriers and removes bureaucracy

+ Focuses on solutions not problems

+ Makes immediate decisions when sufficient but not all information is available

+ Faces reality head-on and rapidly makes adjustments to deliver commitments

+ Operates with a boundary-less attitude

+ Integrates efforts across units and functions

Enable our ADS Core Values

+ Consistently models our expressed expectations and standards

+ Builds relevancy and impact of our core values in actions and activities

+ Engages and listens to the team to identify and remedy gaps

+ Earns the trust and respect of all ADS stakeholders

Delivers Results

+ Reliably meets or exceeds commitments

+ Is accountable for outcomes and doesn’t rationalize shortfalls

+ Has explicit contingencies in place for underperformance

+ Maximizes the leverage from unanticipated opportunities

+ Delivers quality performance that appropriately balances short and long term stakeholder interests

+ Demonstrates strong operational and executional skills

ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

Requisition ID: 2023-15585

External Company Name: Advanced Drainage Systems

External Company URL: http://www.ads-pipe.com/en/

Street: 4640 Trueman Blvd