Director, Environmental, Health & Safety - New Brunswick Site Lead

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The primary focus of this role is to support Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) as the Director of Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety & Sustainability (EOHSS) for the New Brunswick facility within the Department of EOHSS. The position will direct the development, planning, organization, and execution of strategies to maintain a safe, health, and environmental compliant facility. The Director of EOHSS for the New Brunswick site will advocate, coach, coordinate, implement, assess, and improve environmental, safety, occupational health, sustainability outcomes using global and local regulations and consensus guides, BMS management systems, policies, and procedures to promote compliant, forward-leaning culture and preserve BMS' reputation while driving shared Company objectives.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.

• Develop and implement new EOHSS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.

• Must have a thorough understanding of the research and development pharmaceutical operations with sufficient detail to provide applicable regulatory and technical practical guidance.

• Accountable for EOHSS regulatory preparedness and building rapport and trust through all interactions (external agencies and internal stakeholders)

• Provides technical acumen and oversight to all EOHSS programs and activities on-site

• Participates in EOHSS operational and tier discussions, EOHSS committees and teams; and EOHSS self-assessments and audits.

• Identifies and solutions for network opportunities to eliminate unplanned events including spills, workplace injuries, accidents, and adverse health effects.

• Participates in EOHSS governance structures and forums including incident investigation, compliance, capital reviews, best practice sharing.

• Adept at the use of and aiding with EOHSS platforms including modules for investigation, inspection, compliance, and industrial hygiene

• Proactively collaborates at site and above-site levels

• Maintains current understanding of emerging regulation and policy and the proactive application of such processes and programs.

• Brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes and learn and apply new concepts

• Ability to balance expectations of multiple stakeholders on campus

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum education of a Bachelor's degree in environmental, industrial hygiene, physical sciences, or engineering. Advanced degree preferred. Prefer certification through an accredited organization.

• Minimum of ten (10) years of direct EHS/Occupational Health experience in similar research and development operational pharmaceutical space.

• Strong leadership skills and previous management experience

• Boldly lead and influence direct reports and matrix team members within the EOHSS organization and across the Company enterprise.

• Broad EOHSS campus management or multi-site experience desired

• Extensive knowledge of applicable Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (or equivalent ex-USA, e.g., EU-OSHA, JISHA, HSE Gov't UK, SEVESO).

• Working knowledge and application in industrial hygiene, compound banding, high-risk work operations, and environmental media.

• Demonstrated proficiency for EOHSS specific systems such as ENABLON, Enfos, Enhesa.

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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.

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