Description:
BMS Cruiserath Biologics is seeking to recruit a permanent Senior Specialist EHSS.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
- Work compliantly with Irish and European environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.
- Develop and implement new EHSS procedures and update and improve existing ones
- Develop, create, and maintain, and distribute EHSS reports, and records as assigned.
- Create and maintain a systemic process to ensure workflow timelines for EHSS events and action plans are adhered to including mechanisms for EHSS performance and trend reports.
- Provide client-facing support for day-to-day activities across operational functions on the Cruiserath campus. This may include Commercial and Clinical drug substance manufacturing in support of Site Engineering (Maintenance and Critical Utility activities), Supply Chain/Warehouse, and Laboratories (Quality Control and Process Development).
- Key contact for internal customers, researchers, facilities, management, and other cross functional groups, building strong relationships by handling EHSS inquiries.
- Participate in promoting EHSS culture at the site which partners with operational teams to drive ownership and accountability for safety performance, modeling what 'good' looks like.
- Support the training program by assisting in the development and delivery of EHSS specific training topics.
- Participates in EHSS operational and tier meetings, EHSS committees and teams; and EHSS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
- Undertake risk and hazard assessments throughout the campus. This includes involvement in PHA's and HAZOP's for Process Safety.
- Challenges the norms and brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes -demonstrating a growth mindset to learning and applying new concepts).
- Ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues through thorough investigation, corrective measures and escalation, where required.
- Other duties as assigned from time to time, to support business needs.
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills Required
- Proficient with Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point).
- Experience with incidents and/or learning systems database (e.g., Enablon, Success Factors, etc.) preferred
- Familiarity with related Irish and European safety and environmental regulations (EPA, HSA, Irish Water) preferred.
- 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 judgment, quality, and detail in an urgent manner.
- Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset that takes a proactive, solution-oriented approach to identifying issues and developing innovative and effective solutions to improve operations
- Competency in decision-making and escalation judgment where required to guide assigned projects to successful conclusions.
- Ability to handle confidential information and sensitive matters in a professional manner to ensure integrity and confidentiality.
- Excellent transparent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a bias for partnership and collaboration with peers, management, cross-functional teams at site and above-site.
- A recognized qualification in Environmental studies or Health & Safety and Minimum experience of 2 years in an EHS role required.