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10/06/2026
Associate Director – ESH
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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.
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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
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Job Details
India | Dombivli
Full time
10/06/2026
ESSHQ
R51736
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