EHS Advisor

Site Name: USA - Maryland - Rockville

Posted Date: Jun 27 2024

GSK is currently looking for an EHS Advisor to join our team in Rockville, MD. The EHS Advisor will be responsible for establishing, implementing, managing, and continuously improving the environment, health and safety programs for the GSK Rockville site. The EHS Advisor will have broad knowledge of EHS compliance programs and EHS specialty areas including Environmental and Safety Engineering, Process and Warehouse Safety, EHS incident RCA, and Risk Management. The EHS advisor will provide guidance in managing budgets to support outside services and operating expenses. The role includes strategic EHS planning as well as a tactical role for site-wide EHS management systems, EHS regulations, and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

The role is responsible for advising the site leadership team on processes to improve EHS management and performance. The role is responsible for driving continuous improvement in site environmental performance and will serve as a site contact with regulatory agencies (e.g., EPA, DOT, OSHA, etc.) and with GSK Corporate EHS Department.

The role will also:

• Develop and maintain environmental compliance systems and programs.

• Conduct, review and track investigations of injuries, illnesses, environmental releases, non-injury accidents and near-misses to ensure that they are effective, and that they identify and resolve root causes.

• Provide timely, high quality EHS technical support.

• Design, conduct and oversee EHS training.

• Develop and manage an internal audit program to assess compliance with legal and company requirements and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Conduct EHS impact assessments to identify the site's key environmental priorities.

• Maintain site EHS policies, procedures, objectives, key performance indicators and targets that reflect local needs and alignment with GSK's long term EHS strategy.

• Review change proposals (including capital projects and new product introductions) to identify potential EHS issues and participate in their resolution.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues and cross functional team members and leaders at Rockville, other GSK sites in North America, and around the world to ensure that EHS best practices and lessons from adverse events are shared effectively.

• Ensure that necessary EHS information is reported to local regulators and to stakeholders within GSK. Facilitate EHS governance meetings as assigned.

• Lead EHS improvement projects as assigned.

• Performs other job duties as assigned.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Minimum bachelor's degree in a Science, Engineering, or EHS discipline

• Minimum of 4 years' experience in environmental management or consulting, or EHS program development and implementation

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience

• Professional certification (e.g., PE, CHMM, CIH, CSP) is preferred. An advanced degree is desirable.

• Thorough understanding of key regulatory requirements (e.g., EPA OSHA, NIOSH, ANSI, and NFPA rules, regulations, and standards) and their application to a manufacturing and laboratory environment, particularly in the following key areas:

• Environment, eg waste management, air emissions, wastewater treatment, energy efficiency, and sustainability

• Hazardous material/dangerous goods transportation

• EHS management systems.

• Demonstrated leadership skills.

• Excellent computer skills primarily with Microsoft Office Suite and Project

• Highly effective written, oral and presentation skills

• Ability to prioritize multiple demands, think strategically and successfully lead multiple simultaneous projects

• Operating at pace and agile decision-making - using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor, and risk.

• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.

• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.

• Sustaining energy and well-being

• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.

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Why GSK?

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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