R&D Director

Hoya Vision Care is seeking a highly skilled R&D Supervisor and Safety Lead to join our team in Ramsey, MN. As a key member of our R&D team, you will be responsible for driving strategic and technical improvements, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and global standards.

• Leadership and Technical Expertise: Demonstrate strong leadership to drive strategic and technical improvements and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and global standards for the R&D team.
• Team Management: Supervise and manage a team of R&D technicians, providing guidance, support, and performance evaluations.
• Safety and Compliance: Lead safety efforts for the introduction of new chemicals and processes for R&D experimentation, develop and maintain safety protocols, and ensure their adherence within the R&D team.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Stay knowledgeable of REACH and other global regulations and their impact on product development, ensure R&D compliance with EHS regulatory programs from all required governmental agencies.
• Collaboration and Communication: Partner with leadership to implement EHS initiatives, provide guidance and direction, and facilitate EHS discussions, maintain general knowledge of requirements for importing chemicals under the Toxic Substance Control Act, EPA regulations, RCRA standards, Clean Air Act, and state hazardous waste generator requirements.

• Education: Bachelor's Degree, M.S. preferred, in a scientific field required, ideally in Chemistry or a related field.
• Experience: Experience in EHS program development and implementation, extensive knowledge of chemicals and their hazards and handling techniques, experience of leading management and influencing others to embrace and implement continuous safety improvement culture.
• Skills: Ability to manage personnel with strong leadership ability to motivate and coach personnel to accomplish company and global strategic goals, valid driver's license and good driving history, extensive knowledge of OSHA regulatory standards on safety and health, environmental management experience, incident investigation and root cause analysis, decision making, ability to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and interface with all levels of management and employees.