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The primary focus of this role is to support Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) as the Associate Director, EHSS, Occupational Health & Safety for the Summit, NJ facility within the Department of Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) and is part of the Cell Therapy organization. The individual in this role will be responsible for leading the site’s occupational health and safety efforts to drive long-term company and stakeholder value. The position will develop, plan, organize, and execute EHSS programs, policies, procedures, and training to maintain a safe, health, and environmental compliant facility. This individual should possess a strong background on technical safety issues pertaining to laboratory and cleanroom type environments.  This position plays a key role in aligning corporate and local policies and procedures and will enable and foster a proactive and integrated EHSS culture that promotes a positive, proactive approach throughout all operations. 

Shifts Available:

Monday – Friday, Standard Working Hours

Responsibilities:

The Associate Director will advocate, coach, coordinate, implement, assess, and improve environmental, safety, occupational health, and sustainability outcomes using global and local regulations and consensus guides, BMS management systems, policies and procedures, and promote compliant, forward-leaning culture and preserve BMS’ reputation while driving shared Company objectives.

The primary responsibility is to lead the site industrial hygiene program and safety programs across all functions.Partner with leadership teams to integrate safety and environmental management systems into operations, as measured by performance metrics.Develop productive working relationships with federal, state and local authorities, technical and industrial groups and consultants to keep abreast of pending requirements and interpretations of existing rules.Lead site and/or local area audits related to safety programs for compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.Translate Corporate and Divisional standards and guides into appropriate site procedures.Track and report safety metrics.Maintain liaison with outside organizations, peer companies and agencies as necessary to assure compliance and communication.Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local safety and medical surveillance laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.Develop and implement new EHSS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.Provide applicable regulatory and technical practical guidance and execute programs, policies, procedures, and trainings for industrial hygiene, biological safety, laboratory safety, and chemical safety.Execute Management of Change (MOC) program for EHSS to include EHSS Impact Assessments and Change Requests.Participates in EHSS operational and tier discussions, EHSS committees and teams; and EHSS 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.Stops operations and activities that could harm the environment, workforce, or facilities.Utilize and manage site platforms for investigations, reporting, inspection, and other management system platforms and their outcomes.Deliver, develop and oversee trainings as needed, ensuring the upkeep of curricula.Have a proven competency in completing biological risk assessments and participation/ managing an Institutional Biosafety Committee.Proactively collaborates at site and above-site levels.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 EOHSS 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 EHSS Team members during day-to-day operations.Investigates causes of industrial accidents and/or injuries to develop systemic solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.

Knowledge and Skills:

Professional license or certification; RBP (Registered Biosafety Professional), CBP (Certified Biosafety Professional), desired.Proven experience in leading a site industrial hygiene program.Proven experience in biosafety, such as review of research protocols, development of a biosafety manual, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBC), and Institutional Research Boards (IRB) to ensure compliance with the National Institute of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and other standards for recombinant DNA and vaccine research, desired.Six Sigma Certification (Green belt or above) desired.Ability to influence and drive a sustainable EHSS culture.Highly skilled in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and EHS systems like ENABLON (or similar).Excellent verbal and written communication skills.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.Ability to work within a matrix environment achieve high performance standards

Basic Requirements:

Bachelor of Science degree in science or engineering.A Master’s / Graduate degree in a relevant discipline is desired.CIH (Certified Industrial Hygienist) or CSP (Certified Safety Professional), required.A minimum of 15 years of previous Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) experience in a research or manufacturing facility.A minimum of 5 years leadership with direct reports.Previous experience in chemical or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

Working Conditions:

Typical daily activities are within the office environment.The incumbent may be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as, but not limited to clean room gowning , lab coats, safety glasses, hearing protection, and face shields.The incumbent will be required to walk for extended periods of time, up to 2 hours per day.The incumbent must be able to travel for business up to 5% of the time.

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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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