Careers

Description:

The primary focus of the Associate Director, EHS role is to support Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) at the Bothell facility within the Department of Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHS). The individual in this role will be responsible for leading the company’s environmental, occupational health, safety, and sustainability (EHS) efforts to drive long-term company and stakeholder value.

The position will develop, plan, organize, and execute EHS programs, policies, procedures, and training to maintain a safe, health, and environmental compliant facility. This position plays a key role in aligning corporate and local policies and procedures and will enable and foster a proactive and integrated EHS culture that promotes a positive, proactive approach throughout all operations. 

Duties/Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership teams to integrate safety and environmental management systems into operations, as measured by performance metrics.
• 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.
• Translate Corporate and Divisional standards and guides into appropriate site procedures. Lead site and/or local area audits for compliance with applicable regulatory requirements (i.e., OSHA, EPA, WA L&I, etc.).
• Track and report safety and environmental metrics.
• Provide applicable regulatory and technical practical guidance and execute programs, policies, procedures, and trainings including but not limited to,  biological safety (BLS-1 and BSL-2), laboratory safety, chemical safety, environmental management, industrial hygiene, industrial wastewater discharge, and high risk work activities related to construction, maintenance, electrical safety, work from heights, excavation and trenching, machine guarding and safe work permits.
• Execute Management of Change (MOC) program for EHS to include EHS Impact Assessments and Change Requests.
• Investigates causes of industrial accidents and/or injuries to develop solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.
• Participates in EHS operational and tier discussions, EHS committees and teams; and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
• Utilize and manage site platforms for investigations, reporting, inspection, and other management system platforms and their outcomes.
• Conducts Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) reviews against BMS standards and applicable compliance standards, identifies gaps, and completed actions against gaps identified in a systemic fashion using appropriate quality and EHS system tools for documentation and CAPA tracking purposes.  
• Helps to coach and mentor EHS Team members during day-to-day operations.
• Brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes and learn and apply new concepts.

Skills/Eligibility:

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in science or engineering.
• A minimum of 7-10 years of previous experience in a manufacturing or research/laboratory setting in an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) role.
• Ability to influence and drive a sustainable EHS culture.
• Experience managing people
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to attend to multiple high priority items simultaneously and think creatively, critically, and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with both urgency and agility, calmly.
• Proclivity for partnership and cross-team collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master’s / Graduate degree in a relevant discipline is desired
• Previous experience in chemical or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Professional license or certification; RBP (Registered Biosafety Professional), CBP (Certified Biosafety Professional, CSP (Certified Safety Professional), CIH (Certified Industrial Hygienist), desired.
• Six Sigma Certification (Green belt or above) desired.