Director, People Operations & Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)

About the Role

This is a hands-on individual contributor role that owns two of the functions our client depends on as it scales: the Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) program across all facilities, and People Operations across the full employee lifecycle.

Operating in a demanding space-systems R&D and manufacturing environment with energetics, cryogenics, high-pressure systems, and reactive metal powders this role sets HSE strategy, builds and matures the management system, and holds accountability for regulatory compliance, workplace risk reduction, and the protection of their people. It also owns how people join, grow, and leave the company: candidate experience, onboarding, culture, motivation and performance, and offboarding.

The person in this role brings the experience to advise senior leadership, drives a proactive safety culture and a fast-moving, innovative working culture in equal measure, and is hands-on enough to be on the floor making sure safety measures are always active and followed.