Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Career Category

Corporate Services

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.

Environmental Health and Safety Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. We are looking for a highly experienced Environment Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) Manager to drive world class EHSS performance in a Research and Development laboratory environment. Role is focused on Industrial Safety, Chemical Safety, Risk Assessment and EHS Regulatory Compliance.

In depth understanding of chemistry and biology laboratory operations is required to ensure EHSS requirements are met. The candidate is expected to have strong leadership skills to affect change and influence R&D leadership to achieve and drive significant change and improvement through proactive process improvements by:

• Delivers results through influence and communicating effectively with clients and through practical integration of EHS processes with business practices.
• Independently take action to drive improvement in EHS performance in key program areas.
• Manage complex problems and coordinate the implementation of innovative solutions.
• Change agent who drives improvement in a matrixed environment.

Functions (Duties/Accountabilities):

• Provide Client support (EHSS advance culture change, training, risk reviews, incident investigations, lab specific change controls, etc.) to research and development departments.
• Conduct laboratory-based risk assessment, ensure employees are trained and appropriate engineering controls are in place to minimize employee risk.
• Serves as program owner and subject matter expert for industrial safety compliance (LOTO, Hot Work, Machine Guarding, Dock Safety) and change control programs.
• Conducts analyses of incident causes and associated hazards to be used to target specific prevention strategies in laboratory environments.
• Lead or support Human Performance (HOP), Incident Investigation and/or Root Cause Analysis, for particularly technically complex or high hazard incidents.
• Makes recommendations to management regarding potential environmental, health, and safety business impacts.
• Ensure hazards are identified and risks are proactively assessed.
• Establish safe work procedures for hazardous work being performed in chemical and biological laboratories.
• Analyze metrics and establish action plans to drive continuous improvement.
• Participate on the Emergency Response Teams and address emergency response cases at the site.

Liaisons:

• Reports to Site EHSS Director
• Participate in EHSS Global Network Teams
• Frequently interacts with Engineering, Project Managers, Business Continuity, and Facilities.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a collaborative partner with these qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree OR
• Master’s degree and 2 years of experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 8 years of experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in, chemical engineering, engineering, chemistry, biology or other science areas, or environmental, safety, or industrial hygiene.
• Experience in Risk Management, including developing and implementing EHS risk management programs in Chemical and Biological laboratory operations.
• Strong understanding of Chemical and Biological laboratory operations.
• Proven success in managing industrial safety and change control programs.
• Familiarity with risks and controls around high potency compounds and explosive atmospheres.
• Applied knowledge and understanding of EHS principles and practices, regulatory standards, and requirements in context of business activities.
• Well-developed skills in leadership, communication, program development and project management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Smartsheets, Teams, AI, and other computer software systems.

What you can expect from us

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