Manager, Environment, Health & Safety

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Environment, Health & Safety provides compliant EHS programs across all departments, integrating EHS into daily operations to ensure regulatory compliance and continuous performance improvement. Partners with operations to align objectives with site goals and values, providing technical leadership for biosafety programs and managing day-to-day EHS incident management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the site subject matter expert regarding general safety, chemical hygiene, biosafety (BSL 2), and environmental management.
• Implements and improves EHS programs to ensure compliance with federal, state, local environmental, safety, medical surveillance, and sustainability laws and standards.
• Provides and executes programs, policies, procedures, and trainings as the site SME for high-risk work programs including working from heights, electrical safety, hot work, confined space entry, lockout/tagout, and contractor safety.
• Completes hazard assessments, coordinates IH monitoring, process hazard analysis, life safety reviews, incident investigations, environmental reports, and permit applications as needed.
• Participates in EHS operational and tier discussions, safety committees and teams, self-assessments, and audits.
• Reviews processes, facilities, procedures, and management of change documents to ensure conformance to EHS regulations and standards.
• Provides support to staff in injury/illness investigations, additional training, data analysis, and addresses concerns.
• Participates in regulatory inspections and assists in addressing concerns and citations.
• Reviews site data for the EHS reporting system (Enablon); manages user permissions; identifies data gaps; generates reports and dashboards; tracks EHS scorecard metrics.
• Performs miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Travel

• May require up to 5% domestic travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor‚Äôs degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Chemical Engineering, Process Safety Management, or related technical discipline required.
• Minimum 8 years relevant EHS work experience required.
• Technical working knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations as well as CDC, NIH, BMBL guidelines, and other regulations and standards required.

Preferred Qualifications

• RBP, CBSP, CIH, and/or CSP certification preferred.
• Working knowledge of six-sigma and operational excellence a plus.
• Experience with GMP environments and biotechnology processes preferred.
• Ability to interpret complex regulatory issues and provide recommended action.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate clearly to all levels of the organization.
• Self-motivated, flexible, creative, able to prioritize, and work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Teams, Enablon, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship management, and organizational skills.

Education

• Relevant degree as listed in Required Education.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to wear clean room attire and PPE (scrubs, gowning coverall, masks, gloves, etc.).
• Must meet requirements to wear a half-face respirator.
• Stand/walk ~90%, sit ~10% of a 10-hour day; may involve climbing ladders or steps.
• Capable of crouching, bending, twisting, reaching, and repetitive motions.
• Must be able to lift and carry objects weighing up to 45 pounds.

Additional Requirements

• Reasonable accommodations may be made upon request to enable essential functions.

Work Environment

• Office and manufacturing lab settings; lab exposures to chemicals/biochemicals; cleanroom with biohazards and chemicals; potential exposure to noise and equipment hazards and strong odors.