Manager, Environmental Health & Safety- Select Agents and Toxins Biosafety/ Biosecurity - AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Responsibilities:

Approval as ARO through Federal Select Agent Program. Support ARO team and RO ensuring compliance with US 42 CRF Part 73.

Working independently or with general guidance from supervisor:

• Develop and maintain EHS standards, policies, systems and programs applicable to area of responsibility to ensure systems are in place to enable operating in legal and ethical compliance with regard to EHS issues.
• Provide EHS leadership and direction for management, professional, technical and support staff in area of responsibility, including biosafety and biosecurity.
• Provide business perspective, strategic and tactical direction to develop and implement EHS initiatives for the EHS Long range plans focused on AbbVie’s toxin programs
• 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 federal EHS regulations and practices for area of responsibility

• Monitor regulatory requirements/trends, conduct impact analyses, and implement programs to ensure compliance with both regulatory and internal standards.
• Coordinate EHS-SAT activities across organizational boundaries, including GEMBA walks, inventory checks, electronic inventory control, and drills.  Advise site management on the status of EHS systems.
• Track, manage and communicate compliance status, key performance indicators, trends, priority issues and business impact to key stakeholders. Create plans to address issues identified.
• Conduct incident investigations, identify root causes, and implement improvement/action plans to prevent similar incidents from occurring; manage incident responses and CAPA’s.
• Participate and/or lead cross functional teams to represent EHS-SAT objectives related to the subject matter and meet the team’s overall objectives and expectations. Develop and conduct training course material to meet the needs of the learner or business.
• Identify and promote process improvements that strengthen the EHS-SAT functions and the overall organization and minimizes/eliminates risk.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (EHS related, biology, chemistry, Engineering) plus 5+ years of EHS related experience
• or Master’s Degree (EHS related, biology, chemistry, Engineering) plus 3 years of EHS related experience.
• EHS (CBSP, RBP, CSP, CIH) or Engineering professional certification is preferred, but not required.
• Working experience with Federal Select Agent Program desired and with implementing EHS regulations, conducting incident investigations, and managing cross functional teams in R&D or manufacturing.
• Laboratory experience working with biological agents.
• Ability to establish measurable project goals and implementation plans, balance conflicting work demands, and develop action plans.
• Ability to develop standards and/or policies that meet business objectives.
• Ability to actively listen, build, and maintain effective working relationships with internal/ external colleagues and stakeholders and resolve conflict constructively.  Working experience in implementing EHS regulations, biosafety programs, conducting incident investigations and interacting with regulatory agencies.
• Ability to successfully manage projects, programs, training, drills, and electronic document administration

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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