Technical Director, H&S Standards

We are searching for a Technical Consultant to join our UPS Dedicated Team. The position may be located in any city with a major hub airport such as Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, NYC, or Boston. In this role you will work shoulder-to-shoulder with UPS Global CoE Health & Safety (Center of Excellence) to develop safety standards, procedures, and processes to reduce/eliminate risk. The right candidate for this role will bring strong relationship-building skills, service management skills, acute customer focus, and a passion for quality execution and the requisite technical skills and experience. Due to the dedicated aspect of the account, the role is fully remote but does requires travel to different customer locations.

• Directly responsible for development, implementation, and direction of the UPS H&S Standards. Primary duties include strategic planning, advancement of technical capabilities, talent development, and relationship management. Enhances UPS technical thought leadership and overall strategy improvement.

• Translates emerging risks, technology, and industry best practices for field application to advance the discipline impacting current and future business objectives.

• Develops talent strategy for discipline to develop skill and transfer knowledge in partnership with H&S Leadership.

• Assumes project and change management responsibilities for UPS H&S Standards Development, Standard Governance, and Strategy Initiatives.

• Advanced knowledge, skills and experience in strategy planning and delivery, risk assessment, risk analysis, regulatory compliance, technology solutions management, and progress measurement.

• Leadership: Having the ability to collaborate, innovate, influence, and inspire those around them to meet a common goal. This includes mentoring and coaching, owning personal and career growth aspirations, and becoming a leader in their field.

• Continuous Improvement: Having a growth mindset that allows for continuous improvement of work product and service delivery in a collaborative way that provides consistent innovation.

• Relationship Building: Ability to form and sustain relationships with formal and informal leaders of the organization and become a trusted influencer to impact business objectives.

• Required: Strong leadership and managerial skills to manage and develop projects from beginning through implementation and ensures on-going financial objectives.

• Required: Exceptional communication skills to market and execute strategy with internal stakeholders

• Required: Proven collaborator and the ability to deal with varying organizational levels and structures.

• Required: Successful demonstration of technical skills in areas of strategy planning and delivery, risk assessment, risk analysis, regulatory compliance, technology solutions management, and progress measurement.

• Required: Advanced degree in related field or equivalent

• Required: A minimum of 10 years of progressively more responsible related work experience which includes at least 5 years of management/supervisory experience

• Preferred: Candidates are typically working towards (or obtained) an advanced degree and/or professional certification in one or more of the following areas: CSP, ARM, CRM, CPCU, CIH, CPE, or NEBOSH Certification.

• Preferred: Experience in ISO management systems.

• Preferred: International Health & Safety Experience and proficient in multiple languages.

• Bachelor’s degree with coursework in math, engineering or related areas (or equivalent) and at least 10 years of directly related consulting experience in loss prevention or progressive safety/heath field. Candidates are typically working towards (or obtained) an advanced degree and/or professional certification in one or more of the following areas: CSP, ARM, CRM, CPCU, CIH, or CPE. Advanced knowledge, skills and experience in a specialized field, service planning and delivery, risk assessment, risk analysis, solutions management and progress measurement.
• Fully effective interpersonal, writing and other communication skills, required to develop and maintain relationships with customers, peers, and industry contacts.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills.
• Demonstrated ability to retrieve and enter information using various proprietary software applications and create/modify documents and complex spreadsheets using Microsoft Office suite.
• Position requires regular travel.