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Bristol Myers Squibb Senior Manager, EHS in Devens, Massachusetts
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The EHS Senior Manager role at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is a critical leadership position responsible for supporting the Devens Facility's environmental, health, and safety (EHS) efforts. This role aligns with the A1 shift schedule to provide advanced support to manufacturing operations. As the EHS Senior Manager, you will play a key role in driving the company's EHS initiatives within the Devens, MA campus. Primary responsibilities include developing, planning, organizing, and executing advanced EHS programs, policies, procedures, and training. These efforts ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements, maintaining a safe, healthy, and environmentally compliant facility. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and other stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and foster a proactive EHS culture. By aligning corporate and local policies and procedures, you will contribute to the overall success of the organization.
*This is a 12 hour rotating shift (8am-8pm), therefore eligible for a 5% shift differential
Key Responsibilities
Ensure 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 enhance existing ones.
Provide advanced support to clinical and commercial manufacturing operations within the Devens campus, with some overlap with other functions that operate within those spaces, including Site Engineering, Just-In-Time warehousing, and Quality and Biological Development.
Attend governance meetings as needed to support operations, including Operation huddles, Tier meetings, OBEYA reviews, GEMBA walks, and staff meetings.
Develop, manage, and maintain site platforms, databases, and SharePoint for documentation of procedures, forms, SOPs, investigations, reporting, inspections, action items, communications, and other management system platforms.
Conduct hazard/risk/exposure/ergonomic assessments for current and future process introductions, collaborating with external consultants as necessary.
Support process safety management, environmental, and industrial hygiene programs.
Create and distribute EHS reports and records.
Establish a systematic process to ensure adherence to workflow timelines for EHS events and action plans, including mechanisms for EHS performance and trend reports.
Actively engage in EHS training programs and contribute to the development of curricula.
Support local committees, including safety committees.
Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for key EHS contact for clinical and commercial manufacturing operations, and cross-functional groups, addressing EHS inquiries and building strong relationships.
Demonstrate leadership in fostering an EHS culture at the site, partnering with operational teams to ensure accountability for EHS culture and performance.
Collaborate proactively at site and above-site levels.
Participate in EHS operational and tier discussions, EHS committees and teams, and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
Challenge the status quo and introduce new approaches to continuously improve workflow effectiveness and processes.
Review and ensure timely resolution of issues, escalating concerns, resource constraints, and needs to appropriate leaders in the organization.
Qualifications & Experience
Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with a natural inclination for partnership and collaboration with peers, all levels of management, and cross-functional teams at the site and EHS teams above site.
Bachelor's degree in environmental science, health and safety, engineering, or equivalent is required. Master's degree in a related discipline is preferred.
Preferably 10 or more years of experience in the EHS field, specifically in a manufacturing or R&D environment within the biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
Proficient in Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Experience with incidents and/or learning systems databases (e.g., Enablon, Success Factors, etc.) is preferred.
Strong experience with federal and state EHS regulations (EPA, MassDEP, OSHA, etc.).
Strong experience with EHS management systems such as VPP, OHSAS 18001/ISO 45001, ISO 14001, or similar.
Ability to take initiative, adapt to changing priorities, and think creatively, critically, and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with urgency, agility, and composure.
Strong prioritization skills, independent thinking, and the ability to analyze and solve complex problems with excellent judgment, attention to detail, and a sense of urgency.
Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset, proactively identifying issues, and developing innovative and effective solutions to improve operations.
Strong decision-making capability to guide assigned projects to successful conclusions.
Experience handling confidential information and sensitive issues with diplomacy, ensuring integrity and confidentiality.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with transparency.
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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as Transforming patients' lives through science™ , every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com . Visit careers.bms.com/ eeo -accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.
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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Req Number: R1582872
Updated: 2024-06-30 03:46:44.971 UTC
Location: Devens-MA
Bristol Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.