Purpose

The primary responsibility of this site-based role is to develop, coordinate, and implement environmental, health, and safety improvement programs, elevating facilities to best practice standards, and promoting safety throughout the organization within the scope of responsibility.

The ideal candidate will have solid EHS or Engineering technical background and/or pharmaceutical plant experiences. 

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement robust EHS programs and systems, training initiatives, and policies to reduce incidents and ensure compliance with regulations and company requirements.
• Conduct incident investigations, identify root causes, and implement improvement/action plans to prevent similar incidents from occurring.
• Participate and/or lead PHA, RA, and JSA programs to determine safety controls in order to prevent incidents and work with cross functional stakeholders to ensure they are implemented.
• Implement Process Safety elements as per project development stages for both Engineering and Maintenance capital projects.
• Monitor regulatory requirements/trends, conduct impact analysis, and implement programs to ensure compliance with both regulatory and internal standards.
• Actively identify and promote process improvements or new processes that strengthen the EHS function and the overall organization and minimizes/eliminates risks.
• Communicate compliance status, key performance Indicators, trends, priority issues and business impact to key stakeholders.
• Lead and/or participate in cross functional teams to represent EHS objectives related to the subject matter and meet the team’s overall objectives and deliverables.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulatory requirements which include but are not limited to OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119) and EPA's Risk Management Planning (RMP) rule (40 CFR 68), Mechanical Integrity programs, PCI, DOT, EPA etc.