Global Technology & Innovation Safety Lead

The Role 

Entegris is currently seeking a Global Technology & Innovation  Safety Lead to join our Materials Solutions Technology & Innovation Operations team. This position will be based in our Aurora, IL facility. 

In this role, you will strengthen the T&I organization’s ability to prevent incidents, eliminate repeat events, and build a “safety always” culture by driving rigorous root cause analysis (RCA), 8D execution, and global lessons learned implementation. This role plays a critical part in safety by ensuring that incidents, near misses, and observations are systematically analyzed, translated into high quality corrective actions, and embedded across the global T&I network. 

This role owns T&I safety metrics and leadership reporting, ensuring clear visibility into risks, trends, and performance. By proactively identifying systemic gaps, driving disciplined corrective action, and enabling digital and AI driven improvements to safety practices, the role ensures T&I teams operate safely, consistently, and with a strong learning mindset across all sites. 

What You’ll Do:

Drive RCA and 8D Excellence and Global Learning (Rigor and Accountability) 

• Standardize and coordinate RCA, 8D, and lessons learned activities for T&I safety incidents, near misses, and key observations across the global T&I organization. 

• Establish and enforce expectations for depth of analysis to ensure true root causes are identified and not symptoms. 

• Translate findings into scalable lessons learned and ensure they are effectively communicated and adopted across sites. 

• Ensure root cause analysis outputs are systematically linked to updates in SOPs, training materials, and onboarding practices to prevent recurrence. 

Ensure High Quality Corrective Action Implementation (Prevention and Impact) 

• Track and drive closure of corrective and preventive actions globally, maintaining clear accountability and visibility. 

• Challenge low impact or administrative corrective actions and elevate action quality by promoting stronger, more effective measures that address system level risks through engineering and systemic controls. 

• Ensure corrective actions are implemented effectively, validated, and sustained over time. 

• Ensure actions related to human factors, training gaps, or procedural weaknesses are incorporated into training programs, onboarding, and competency requirements. 

Own Safety Metrics and Leadership Reporting (Clarity and Transparency) 

• Own T&I safety metrics, dashboards, and reporting processes for leadership updates. 

• Develop clear, audit ready views of incident trends, repeat events, corrective action effectiveness, and leading indicators. 

• Provide regular insights to T&I and site leadership to enable proactive decision making and risk mitigation. 

• Ensure alignment of T&I metrics with broader EHS frameworks while maintaining focus on T&I specific risks. 

Own T&I Safety Training, Competency, and Onboarding Systems (Capability and Sustainability) 

• Define and maintain a global T&I safety training and competency matrix aligned to role, hazard exposure, and work activities, ensuring clear requirements for all personnel, contractors, and visitors. 

• Establish standardized processes to assess training effectiveness, identify skill gaps, and drive targeted upskilling across the T&I organization. 

• Reinvigorate T&I safety onboarding programs to ensure new employees are fully prepared to operate safely, with emphasis on hazard recognition, safe work practices, and site-specific risks prior to independent work. 

• Implement mechanisms to verify competency and understanding, not just training completion, particularly for high-risk activities and environments. 

Enable a “Safety Always” Culture (Engagement and Influence) 

• Promote an environment where incident reporting, near miss identification, and learning are expected and reinforced. 

• Drive adoption of lessons learned to prevent recurrence of similar events across sites and programs. 

• Reinforce accountability, transparency, and continuous learning following safety events. 

• Drives the organization’s safety culture by embedding continuous improvement, encouraging learning from experience, and driving ongoing enhancement of safety practices. 

Leverage Digital and AI Enabled Safety Innovation (Forward Looking and Scalable) 

• Identify and deploy opportunities to integrate AI and digital tools into laboratory and work area safety routines. 

• Enhance how safety data is captured, analyzed, and acted upon through automation and advanced analytics. 

• Partner with digital, IT, and EHS teams to scale solutions that improve hazard identification, trend analysis, and decision support. 

• Drive continuous improvement in safety systems and workflows through technology enablement. 

Operate Across a Global, Cross Functional Environment 

• Serve as a central coordination point across T&I, EHS, Quality, Operations, and site leadership. 

• Align closely with global EHS partners to ensure consistency, compliance, and shared best practices. 

• Work across regions and time zones to ensure consistent expectations and execution globally. 

• Facilitate alignment on priorities, ownership, and timelines for corrective actions and lessons learned. 

Share and Scale Best Practices Across the Enterprise 

• Identify, document, and disseminate safety best practices across T&I and into the broader enterprise. 

• Enable cross site and cross functional learning to accelerate adoption of proven safety improvements. 

• Act as a connector between sites to ensure learnings are not isolated and are broadly leveraged. 

What We Seek: 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry, or a related technical field with 5 or more years of experience in an industrial environment 

• Demonstrated experience with RCA, 8D, or structured problem-solving methodologies. 

• Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting safety data and translating into actions. 

• Proven ability to influence without authority in a global, cross-functional environment. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including leadership level reporting. 

• High attention to detail with a focus on data integrity and audit ready outputs. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in T&I, laboratory, or technical operations environments. 

• Core safety knowledge in chemical laboratories and manufacturing environments. 

• Experience owning metrics, dashboards, and executive level reporting. 

• Exposure to digital or AI enabled solutions in safety or operational environments. 

• Track record of reducing repeat incidents or improving safety performance at scale. 

• Experience working across global teams and regulatory environments. 

Success Measures (What Good Looks Like) 

• RCA and 8D outputs consistently identify true root causes and drive meaningful, sustainable improvements. 

• Corrective actions are high quality, implemented on time, and effective in preventing recurrence. 

• Clear reduction in repeat incidents and recurring failure modes across T&I sites. 

• T&I safety metrics are accurate, transparent, and enable proactive leadership decisions. 

• Lessons learned are consistently adopted across sites and embedded into ways of working. 

• AI and digital tools are successfully integrated to improve safety insight, speed, and scalability. 

• Strong alignment with EHS and effective sharing of best practices across the enterprise. 

• T&I teams demonstrate strong ownership of safety, learning, and follow through. 

Why Work at Entegris 

Lead. Inspire. Innovate. Define Your Future. 

Not everyone who works for a global company shares the same background, experiences and perspectives. We leverage the differences of our employees to bring new ideas to the table. Every employee throughout the company is encouraged to share input on projects and initiatives.

Our decision-making process is truly a collaborative effort as we realize there are leaders at every level of the organization. We put our values at the core of how we operate as an organization — not just when it’s convenient, but in a lasting and meaningful way.

We want the time and energy you spend here to have a positive impact on your life inside and outside of the office. 

What We Offer:

Our total rewards package goes above and beyond just a paycheck. Whether you’re looking to build your career, improve your health, or protect your wealth, we offer generous benefits to help you achieve your goals. 

• Compensation: $118,000 - $150,000 per year range with actual pay dependent on candidate overall skills for the role
• Annual bonus eligibility
• Progressive paid time off policy that empowers you to take the time you need to recharge
• Generous 401(K) plan with an impressive employer match with no delayed vesting 
• Excellent health, dental and vision insurance packages to fit your needs
• Education assistance to support your learning journey
• A values-driven culture with colleagues that rally around People, Accountability, Creativity and Excellence

Entegris does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need Entegris immigration sponsorship (e.g., H1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) now or in the future. 

At Entegris we are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants. Our policy is to recruit, hire, train, and reward employees for their individual abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, marital or military status. 

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