Jeannine Du Chateau has more than 15 years of experience as a Senior Manager in enterprise-wide EHS governance, facilities operations, and risk management across multinational, highly regulated environments. She focuses on aligning Environment, Health, Safety, and Quality strategies with organizational goals while maintaining strong operational oversight. During her career, she has led global teams, managed complex facilities, and supported high-risk operations across sectors such as manufacturing, food production, energy, chemicals, and medical devices.

Her experience includes strengthening and managing ISO Management Systems while coordinating operational support across both light and heavy manufacturing sectors. These environments include PCB and electronics production, automotive manufacturing, chemical operations, plastics processing, and beverage manufacturing. Jeannine worked directly with several departments, including manufacturing shop floors, operations teams, engineering groups, supply chain units, procurement departments, warehousing operations, and maintenance functions. Through this work, she helped deliver measurable improvements in operational costs, energy use, and sustainability outcomes.

Professional Highlights

She served as the lead auditor for Emergency Preparedness and Response plans connected to the Deep-Water Horizon explosion. While working remotely from the BP Houston, Texas, location, she monitored remaining oil rig piping and underwater systems related to the operation. As part of the same effort at the BP training site in Mobile, Alabama, she reviewed emergency response documentation. She observed the preparation of fishermen’s vessels equipped to assist in cleaning up raw crude oil from the former Deepwater rig area.

Du Chateau's work also included projects in the mining industry, where she conducted training sessions at several FCX and Rio Tinto mining locations. These programs were delivered at sites across the United States and internationally. They included operations located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, as well as other global locations where she supported multiple safety and environmental training initiatives.

She was also responsible for auditing NASA facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Houston, Texas, for compliance with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. She directed and implemented processes that helped sites in Florida and California achieve ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certification. She also supported the certification of multiple Rockwell locations to ISO 14001, including facilities across several states in the United States and Mexico, totaling 50 sites within Motion Control operations.

She also completed audits at several Food and Beverage production sites across multiple Coca-Cola facilities located in the United States.

Professional Background: Strategic Leadership

Her Role at LRQA

Jeannine currently serves as Global Account Manager and Lead Auditor for LRQA, a London-based assurance and risk management organization that provides certification, inspection, and advisory services to many Fortune 500 companies worldwide. In this role, she manages EHS, quality, and risk management solutions for multinational client accounts. Her work focuses on aligning regulatory compliance with operational performance and governance strategies. She reports to the Vice President of Sales for North America and works with cross-functional teams that include both internal professionals and client representatives.

Over the past four years, she has managed a portfolio of 20 multinational enterprise accounts across sectors such as Automotive, PCB and SMT Manufacturing, Chemical Production, Heavy Manufacturing, and Energy. Through this work, she helped deliver integrated management system certification and compliance solutions on a global scale.

Her work contributed to improved organizational performance, including 26 percent revenue growth and 30 percent sales growth through strategic account development, cross-selling initiatives, and service expansion. She also supported client organizations by delivering advisory services on ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, SQF, and FSSC 2200 standards, as well as by developing cybersecurity and ESG certification frameworks.

Jeannine Du Chateau also worked closely with executive leadership teams, assisted with product development initiatives, and collaborated with accreditation bodies to manage certification processes, audit remediation, suspension recovery, and compliance continuity. In addition, she helped strengthen the visibility of LRQA OCS Europe and Blue accreditation programs.

She previously worked with the same organization from 2017 to 2020 as Senior QEHS and Sustainability Customer Manager and Lead Auditor, before returning in 2022 to assume her current position.

Her Work at Thales Avionics

For two years, Du Chateau worked as a Senior Maintenance, Facilities, QEHS, and Security Manager at Thales Avionics, an organization active in the aerospace, defense, and digital technology sectors. In this position, she oversaw QEHS governance across several regulated manufacturing and airport-based environments. Reporting to the Director of Operations while coordinating with site Plant Managers, she supervised cross-functional teams, managed a $300,000 operational budget, and supported operational continuity and regulatory compliance across six sites in the United States.

Her responsibilities included directing environmental health and safety programs, supervising facilities operations, managing security procedures, and supporting sustainability initiatives. She also led training programs for EHS professionals within the business unit and personally recruited team members to strengthen expertise at the site level.

Jeannine conducted incident investigations, implemented corrective and preventive actions, developed key performance indicators, and prepared executive reports. She also incorporated Kaizen principles into construction and expansion projects, improving safety and security procedures by 25 percent. In addition, she coordinated regulatory inspections and ISO audits, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and AS9100. She also managed aviation compliance submissions and implemented enterprise-wide COVID-19 safety procedures to protect employees while maintaining uninterrupted operations.

Earlier in her career, she worked for 8 years as a Global Key Customer Project Manager at Det Norske Veritas in Norway, an organization known for risk management and assurance services operating in more than 100 countries. In that role, she guided global EHS and quality governance activities for complex enterprises while advising leadership teams on regulatory exposure, crisis response planning, and compliance strategies. She reported to the Vice President of North American Operations and supervised six-member auditor teams.

Before that role, Du Chateau served as Quality, Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager at General Dynamics in Tallahassee, Florida. There, she managed QEHS governance and regulatory strategy across advanced manufacturing operations while supporting proactive risk management and environmental responsibility within aerospace and defense manufacturing systems.

Professional Recognition

During her career, she received several professional awards, including the Crystal Award for Environmental Excellence on multiple occasions, the Governor’s Hazardous Waste Reduction Award, and the Values in Action Award for Customer Service.

Professional Affiliations

Jeannine actively participates in professional organizations connected to environmental management, safety, and quality improvement. These include the Orlando Chapter of the American Society for Quality, the Technical Advisory Group for updates to ISO 14001, the Technical Advisory Group for OCS Blue’s transition to an ISO standard, the Local Emergency Planning Commission, and the Technical Advisory Group of the International Organization for Standardization.

Education

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. She continued graduate studies in Corporate Finance at Capella University.

She also maintains multiple professional certifications, including First Aid, CPR, and AED, as well as Emergency Response certification through the State of Florida Local Emergency Planning Commission. She is also certified by Exemplar Global as a Lead Environmental Auditor, Lead Health and Safety Auditor, and Lead Quality Auditor.

A Life of Giving Back

Du Chateau maintains a strong commitment to community involvement and volunteer work. Her volunteer activities include supporting Habitat for Humanity and assisting patients recovering from hip and knee surgeries at Viera Hospital. She also served as a United Way representative while working with Rockwell, General Dynamics, and Thales.

She also supported several American Cancer Society events for 10 years, including the Cattle Baron’s Ball, Light up the Night Races, and Relay for Life. She volunteered and donated to the Alzheimer Society of Miami’s annual galas in Palm Beach and Wellington, Florida, and supported church Christmas drives that assisted families in Clewiston, Florida.

She is the mother of two children and participates in their activities by coaching flag football and serving as a dugout parent in several youth leagues. Through her professional leadership and dedication to service, Jeannine Du Chateau continues to support responsible governance, safety leadership, and community engagement.