Environmental, Health, and Safety Senior Specialist (EHS Senior Specialist)
Position Summary
This position is responsible for supporting the administration of various EHS programs and initiatives. This includes overseeing Contractor Safety programs, managing Safe Work Permits, and supporting the training of programs such as confined space entry, lockout tagout, and work at height. This supplemental role ensures compliance with environmental, safety, medical surveillance, and sustainability laws and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels. The position will also involve participation in self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, hazard assessments, and audits. Overall, this position plays a crucial role in supporting the site EHS team and promoting a safe and compliant work environment.
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 adheredto 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 theDevens 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, buildingstrong relationships by handling EHS inquiries.
Participate in and show leadership in an EHS culture at the site that partners with operational teams to ensure allare 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 EHSself-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
Perform risk and hazard assessments throughout the campus. This includes involvement in PHAs for ProcessSafety.
Challenges the status quo and brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows andprocesses (Learn and apply new concepts).
Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalate concerns, resourceconstraints, needs, with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.
Qualifications & Experience
Required B.S. Degree in environmental studies, health & safety, science or engineeringMinimum 4 - 6 years of prior EHS ExperienceProficient 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 identifyingissues and developing innovative and effective solutions to improve operations.
Strong decision-making capability to guide assigned projects to successful conclusionsExperience handling confidential information and sensitive issues in a diplomatic manner to ensure integrity andconfidentiality.
Excellent transparent verbal and written communication skillsStrong 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.
