Senior Specialist, EHS - Bristol Myers Squibb

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The EHS Specialist position is pivotal in supporting and ensuring compliance with EHS programs and initiatives. This role revolves around engaging end users where they work. The role also encompasses overseeing safety programs, managing permits, and delivering training for various safety procedures. The specialist will also engage in compliance activities, self-assessments, and audits to uphold environmental, safety, and sustainability standards. As a key contact for EHS inquiries, the specialist will collaborate with multiple departments, lead EHS culture initiatives, and support training programs. Additionally, the role involves conducting risk assessments and continuously improving EHS processes and workflows.

*This is a 12-hour rotating night shift position (8pm-8am), therefore eligible for a 20% shift differential

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures compliance with Federal, State, and Local environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.

• Develop and implement new EHS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.

• Develop, create, maintain, and distribute EHS reports, and records as assigned.

• Create and maintain a systemic process to ensure workflow timelines for EHS events and action plans are adhered to including mechanisms for EHS performance and trend reports.

• Using a client representation model, support day-to-day activities in one or more operational functions across the Devens campus. This may include Commercial and/or Clinical drug substance manufacturing, support of Site Engineering (Maintenance and Metrology activities), Supply Chain/Warehouse, Laboratories (Quality Control and Process Development), or Cell Therapy Manufacturing.

• Key contact for internal customers, researchers, facilities, management, and other cross functional groups, building strong relationships by handling EHS inquiries.

• Participate in and show leadership in an EHS culture at the site that partners with operational teams to ensure all are accountable for EHS culture and performance, modeling what good looks like.

• Proactively collaborates at site and above-site levels.

• Support the training program by assisting in the development and delivery of EHS committees and teams; and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.

• Perform risk and hazard assessments throughout the campus. This includes involvement in PHAs for Process Safety.

• Challenges the status quo and brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes (Learn and apply new concepts).

• Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalate concerns, resource constraints, needs, with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.
   

Qualifications & Experience:
 

• B.S. Degree in environmental studies, health & safety, science or engineering

• Minimum 4 - 6 years of prior EHS Experience

• Proficient with MS Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point)

• Minimum 4 years’ experience with incidents and/or learning systems databases (e.g., Enablon, Success Factors, etc.)

• Minimum 4 years’ experience related to the EHS federal and state regulations (EPA, MassDEP, OSHA, etc.)

• Ability to take initiative and adapt to frequently changing priorities simultaneously and think creatively, critically, and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with urgency, agility, and calm.

• Prioritizes work and thinks independently, analyzes, and solves complex problems with excellent judgement, quality, and detail in an urgent manner.

• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset that take a proactive, solution-oriented approach to identifying issues and developing innovative and effective solutions to improve operations.

• Strong decision-making capability to guide assigned projects to successful conclusions.

• Experience handling confidential information and sensitive issues in a diplomatic manner to ensure integrity and confidentiality.

• Excellent transparent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills with a proclivity for partnership and collaboration with peers, all levels of management, cross-functional teams at site and EHS above site teams.

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On-site Protocol

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