Environmental, Health and Safety Senior Specialist

Onsite at Devens, MA facility

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8AM - 4:30PM EST


Duties and Responsibilities:

*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.

*Develop, create, maintain, and distribute EOHSS reports, and records as assigned.

*Create and maintain a systemic process to ensure workflow timelines for EOHSS events and action plans are adhered to including mechanisms for EOHSS performance and trend reports.

*Using a client representation model, support day-to-day activities in one or more operational functions across the Devens campus. This may include Commercial and/or Clinical drug substance manufacturing, support of Site Engineering (Maintenance and Metrology activities), Supply Chain/Warehouse, Laboratories (Quality Control and Process Development), or Cell Therapy Manufacturing.

*Key contact for internal customers, researchers, facilities, management, and other cross functional groups, building strong relationships by handling EOHSS inquiries.

*Participate in and show leadership in an EOHSS culture at the site that partners with operational teams to ensure all are accountable for EOHSS culture and performance, modeling what good looks like.

*Proactively collaborates at site and above-site levels.

*Support the training program by assisting in the development and delivery of EOHSS committees and teams; and EOHSS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.

*Perform risk and hazard assessments throughout the campus. This includes involvement in PHAs for Process Safety.

*Challenges the status quo and brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes (Learn and apply new concepts).

*Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalate concerns, resource constraints, needs, with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.


Required Education and Experience:

*B.S. Degree in environmental studies, health & safety, science or engineering.

*Minimum 4 - 6 years of prior EHS Experience

*Proficient with MS Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point)

*Minimum 4 years experience with incidents and/or learning systems databases (e.g., Enablon, Success Factors, etc)

*Minimum 4 years experience related to the EOHSS federal and state regulations (EPA, MassDEP, OSHA, etc)

*Ability to take initiative and adapt to frequently changing priorities simultaneously and think creatively, critically, and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with urgency, agility, and calm.

*Prioritizes work and thinks independently, analyzes, and solves complex problems with excellent judgement, quality, and detail in an urgent manner.

*Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset that take a proactive, solution oriented approach to 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 in a diplomatic manner to ensure integrity and confidentiality.

*Excellent transparent verbal and written communication skills

*Strong interpersonal skills with a proclivity for partnership and collaboration with peers, all levels of management, cross-functional teams at site and EOHSS above site teams.


These daily activities are within the office environment. However, responsibilities will be conducted within the manufacturing facilities as needed, and outdoor at time