Manager, EHS (Onsite)

Role Summary

The primary responsibility of this site-based role is to develop, coordinate, and implement environmental, health, and safety improvement programs, elevating facilities to best practice standards and promoting safety throughout the organization within the scope of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements robust EHS programs, training initiatives, and policies to reduce incidents and ensure compliance with regulations and company requirements.
• Provide EHS leadership and direction for management, professional, technical and support staff in area of responsibility.
• Ensure systems are in place to enable area of responsibility to operate in legal and ethical compliance regarding EHS issues.
• Leads efforts to educate employees on best practices, precautions, and established procedures.
• Provide business perspective, strategic and tactical direction to develop and implement EHS initiatives for the EHS Long range plan.
• Authority to represent AbbVie externally on matters related to EHS with external regulatory agencies and non-government organizations.
• Maintain a broad understanding of local, regional and global EHS regulations and practices for area of responsibility.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulatory requirements including, but not limited to, OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA’s Risk Management Planning (RMP) rule, along with related programs.
• Creates a safety culture by setting directions to reduce or eliminate operations-related injuries or accidents, damage or loss of product or equipment, and unnecessary costs by ensuring that all equipment and facilities are maintained consistently with safety, security, hygiene, and AbbVie standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (EHS-related or Engineering) plus 5–12 years of EHS experience, or Master’s degree (EHS-related or Engineering) plus 5–8 years of EHS experience. EHS experience in manufacturing or laboratory environments is required.
• Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) certification is preferred but not required.
• Experience performing qualitative and quantitative occupational hygiene risk assessment and exposure monitoring, including developing monitoring strategies, issuing technical reports, and generating recommendations to reduce risk.
• Experience implementing EHS regulations, conducting risk assessments, root cause analysis, incident investigations, interacting with regulatory agencies and external organizations, and managing cross-functional teams.
• Development of practical, applicable standards and/or policies that meet business objectives. Technical expertise in EHS functions, as well as technical writing and business communications.
• Ability to actively listen, build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders, and resolve conflicts.
• Ability to successfully manage projects and programs.