Description

Occupational Health and Safety Manager

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.  

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: 
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.  We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

Develops and implements safety plans to close any potential gaps in the controls  With the Executive Director, Safety, Security and Business Resiliency, develops effective working relationships and documented safety plans in conjunction with all functional business areas to develop and maintain a corporate wide safety program that addresses business recovery and emergency response management  Partners with Senior Management and Operations through the facilitation of safety risk assessments  Collects, trends and reports key metrics for measuring Occupational Health and Safety  Provides advice and services to managers and employees on questions related to the interpretation and application of policies, programs, and procedures within their expertise Mobilizes and empowers managers and employees at the level of good practices in health and safety  Ensures compliance with the rules, standards based on the legislation and practice of the company health and safety Responsible for investigation of incidents and/or accidents as well as preventive audits and inspections Identifies training needs in health and safety in each site and support needs as they are raised by local request Leads the Health and Safety Committees at their respective site, provides global guidance for sites that do not have onsite Occupational Health and Safety support Ensures the supply and control of Occupational Health and Safety equipment as identified by regulation, best practice, or Syneos Health Policy

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Administrative/Business Management or a Health and Safety specific degree.  Strong understanding and experience in Occupational Health and Safety  Excellent verbal and written communication skills  Strong organizational skills and a track record of leading a range of tasks and issues simultaneously to a positive outcome and on time  Strong ability to ascertain and understand all relevant facts and business processes to support analysis of issues    Excellent proficiency with MS Office Suite, including PowerPoint   Self-starter with the ability to work with a great degree of autonomy   Ability to remain calm during a crisis event  Requires robust knowledge of leading practices in Occupational Health and Safety.  Requires strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, and requires robust knowledge of leading practices in policies, procedures, and real world Health and Safety implementation. 

Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities.  Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.