Director of Environment, Health and Safety

Career Category

Safety

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Director, Environmental Health & Safety - Manufacturing and Clinical Supply (MCS)

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is searching for a Director, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) within the Manufacturing and Clinical Supply (MCS) in Thousand Oaks, CA to drive safe, compliant, and sustainable operations. Director EHS is an excellent opportunity for a creative problem solver to craft EHS processes within MCS for years to come. This role will provide the candidate with opportunities to collaborate with staff and leaders in EHS, Manufacturing, Facilities and Engineering, Process Development, Quality, and Clinical Supply as well as the MFG EHS network. The successful candidate will contribute to broader EHS initiatives as a member of the EHS Global Leadership Network as well as deliver results through influence and communicating effectively with clients.

In this vital role, you will direct a team of EHS professionals to implement the overall EHS management program, promote and sustain a culture of safety and interact with MCS leadership to:

• Integrate the EHS management system and Active Caring principles into biomanufacturing processes, operating practices, and leadership routines.
• Develop and lead a multi-year EHS strategy, translating priorities into measurable goals, performance objectives, and implementation plans.
• Establish and mature EHS governance with MCS leadership to strengthen accountability, review performance, and advance continuous improvement.
• Build an organization-wide Active Caring culture by engaging leaders and employees in proactive risk awareness, peer-to-peer care, and shared responsibility for safety.
• Create a data-driven, science-based framework to identify, assess, prioritize, recommend, and implement EHS performance improvements.
• Provide strategic oversight of EHS programs, requirements, practices, and processes to ensure standards are met, sustained, and continually improved.
• Influence and support line management in owning EHS performance, integrating risk management into operational decisions, and delivering measurable results.
• Maintain audit readiness and ensure compliance with applicable EHS regulations and requirements through effective controls, documentation, and assurance processes.
• Maintain a purposeful, visible presence on the manufacturing floor to engage employees and leaders, understand work as performed, identify emerging risks, and reinforce safe practices.
• Scale EHS systems, capabilities, and change-management practices to support organizational growth and an accelerating pace of work, ensuring safety risks are assessed and managed as processes, technologies, and responsibilities evolve.
• Advance the adoption of digital technologies and data analytics to strengthen EHS insights, identify emerging risks proactively, and use leading indicators to guide timely interventions and prevent incidents.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The EHS professional we seek is a self-starter leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of EHSS experience OR
• Master’s degree and 8 years of EHSS experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of EHSS experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in environment, safety, industrial hygiene, technical, scientific, or engineering or equivalent experience
• Advanced degree strongly preferred
• 12+ years of experience developing and implementing EHS programs within a biotechnology/pharmaceutical company

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