Location: 100% onsite (Philadelphia, PA)
Salary: $86k - $96k
Shift: Friday - Monday 8am - 7pm
Responsible for supporting compliant EHS programs to all departments at the facility. Integrates EHS programs into daily operations to assure regulatory compliance, achieves continuous performance improvement, meeting EHS performance objectives. Partners with operations to develop objectives to achieve these goals in alignment with site business goals and values. Provides technical leadership to ensures the biological safety programs adhere to federal, state, and local EHS regulations. Manages the day-to-day requirements and activities of the EHS incident management and reporting system.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Provides support to the site to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environment and safety, laws, regulations, codes, and consensus standards as well as internal policies and procedures.
- Provides input to policies and procedures and assists with the development delivery of associated training presentations.
- Completes job hazard analysis (JHAs) and safety inspections; assists with IH monitoring, incident investigations and environmental reporting and permit compliance.
- Responsible for hazardous and biohazardous waste management including the proper handling, documentation, inspection, and transportation of regulated wastes.
- Participates in and supports EHS operational and tier discussions, safety committees and teams, self-assessments, and audits.
- Reviews processes, facilities, procedures, and management of change documents to assure conformance to recognized EHS regulations, standards, and guidelines.
- Provides support to staff in completing injury/illness investigations, additional training, data analysis, and addresses specific concerns as they are raised.
- Participates in regulatory inspections and assists in addressing noted concerns and citations.
- Reviews site data for the EHS reporting system (Enablon); identifies data gaps and other concerns; generates output reports and dashboards using the appropriate BI tools.
- Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.
Travel
- May require travel based on business needs.
Required Education, Skills, and Knowledge
- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Chemical Engineering, Process Safety Management, or a related technical discipline required.
- Minimum 3-5 years direct occupational safety work experience required.
- Technical working knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations as well as CDC, NIH, BMBL guidelines, and other regulations and consensus standards required.
Preferred Education, Skills, and Knowledge
- CIH, and/or CSP certification desirable.
- First Aid, EMT or Paramedic certification desirable.
- Working knowledge of six-sigma and operational excellence a plus.
- Experience with GMP environments and biotechnology processes preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly interpret complex regulatory issues and provide recommended course of action.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly to all levels of the organization.
- Self-motivated, flexible, creative, able to prioritize, and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively deal with conflicting and changing priorities.
- Strong working knowledge of computers and programs including Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Teams, Enablon, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship management, and organizational skills.