Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety - Safety Lead

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The primary focus of this role is to support Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) as the Associate Director of Safety for the NBR Facility within the Department of Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EOHSS). The individual in this role will be responsible for leading the company's environmental, occupational health, safety, and sustainability (EHS) efforts within the NBR Facility to drive long-term company and stakeholder value.
The position will develop, plan, organize, and execute EHS programs, policies, procedures, and training to maintain a safe, health, and environmental compliant facility. This position plays a key role in aligning corporate and local policies and procedures and will enable and foster a proactive and integrated EHS culture that promotes a positive, proactive approach throughout all operations.
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 EHS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.
• Provide applicable regulatory and technical practical guidance and execute programs, policies, procedures, and trainings as the subject matter expert for high-risk work programs including but not limited to: working from heights, electrical safety, excavation and trenching, PSM, construction safety, hot work, line breaking, lock out tag out, safe work permits, prestart up safety reviews, process safety management, mechanical integrity, and contractor safety.
• Investigates causes of industrial accidents and/or injuries to develop solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.
• Execute Management of Change (MOC) program for EHS to include EHS Impact Assessments and Change Requests.
• Participates in EHS operational and tier discussions, EHS committees and teams; and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
• Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalates concerns, resource constraints, needs, with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.
• Utilize and manage site platforms for investigations, reporting, inspection, and other management system platforms and their outcomes.
• Participate in and show leadership in an EHS culture at the site that partners with operational teams to ensure all are accountable for EHS culture and performance, modeling what good looks like.
• Conducts Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) reviews against BMS standards and applicable compliance standards, identifies gaps, and completed actions against gaps identified in a systemic fashion using appropriate quality and EHS system tools for documentation and CAPA tracking purposes.
• Brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes and learn and apply new concepts.
• Helps to coach and mentor EHS Team members during day-to-day operations.
• Act as the EHS point-of-contact for one area, facility, or functional group at the facility. Investigates causes of industrial accidents and/or injuries to develop systemic solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.

Qualifications:
Minimum Requirements

• Minimum education of a Bachelor of Science degree in science or engineering. A graduate degree in a relevant discipline and/or Professional license or certification in an appropriate discipline is desired.
• Minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) years of previous experience in a manufacturing an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) role.
• Previous experience in chemical or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Experience managing a team within a matrix organization
• Highly skilled in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and EHS systems like ENABLON (or similar).
• Ability to attend to multiple high priority items simultaneously and think creatively, critically, and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with both urgency and agility, calmly.

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On-site Protocol
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.
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