Senior Manager, EHSS and DEA Regulatory

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

The Senior Manager, EHSS and DEA Regulatory provides strategic and operational leadership for Environmental Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHSS), emergency preparedness, DEA-regulated programs, and laboratory compliance supporting research and development operations. This role serves as a senior subject matter expert for laboratory safety, environmental compliance, controlled substances, DEA List I chemicals, hazardous materials, contractor safety, ergonomics, emergency response, and risk management.

The role partners closely with Research, Facilities, Occupational Health, Security, Procurement, external agencies, and service providers to enable safe, compliant, and efficient operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Laboratory, Research, Facilities, and Operational Safety

• Provide EHSS support for laboratories, scientific operations, facilities projects, space planning, ventilation, flammable storage, laboratory occupancy, startup readiness, and operational risk.
• Perform safety reviews, hazard assessments, flammable materials reviews, hazardous occupancy assessments, design reviews, compliance inspections, and evaluations of laboratory infrastructure, chemical storage, life-safety systems, equipment, and research processes.
• Advise researchers on chemical, biological, cryogenic, radiological, sharps, and other lab hazards; establish safe work practices, effective operating controls, and risk-reduction measures for high-risk activities.

DEA, Controlled Substances, Listed Chemicals, and Regulatory Compliance

• Serve as site program owner and subject matter expert for DEA-regulated research involving controlled substances and DEA List I chemicals, ensuring compliance with federal DEA regulations, Commonwealth of Massachusetts requirements, and company policies.
• Manage lifecycle controls for acquisition, receipt, storage, security, inventory, transfer, use, return, disposal, procurement governance, chain of custody, record retention, reporting, reconciliation, inspection preparation, and electronic tracking systems.
• Coordinate inspections, audits, corrective actions, documentation, training, audit readiness, agency interactions, and regulatory guidance in partnership with Research, Security, Procurement, and Facilities.

Environmental, Hazardous Materials, Waste, and Contractor Safety

• Manage environmental programs for hazardous waste, wastewater, stormwater, air emissions, chemical storage, permits, reporting, inspections, corrective actions, and audit-ready records.
• Maintain compliance with EPA, RCRA, DOT, IATA, NFPA, Massachusetts Fire Code, MassDEP, MWRA, hazardous materials transportation, and applicable federal, state, local, and permit requirements.
• Develop contractor safety requirements, procedures, orientations, and refresher training; review contractor activities and partner with Facilities and IFM teams on construction, maintenance, preconstruction reviews, higher-risk work, incident investigations, and corrective-action follow-up.

Ergonomics and Workplace Accommodations

• Conduct ergonomic and workstation assessments; support workplace accommodations related to ergonomic concerns and documented restrictions.
• Coordinate with Occupational Health, Facilities, Human Resources, and workplace services to implement accommodations and maintain ergonomic resources.
• Provide consultation on office, laboratory, and task-specific ergonomic risks.

Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Incident Management

• Serve as an EHSS emergency response leader and alternate emergency coordinator; participate in emergency planning, drills, incident response, spill management, and medical response coordination.
• Maintain emergency action plans, spill response plans, hazardous waste contingency plans, and related documentation.
• Lead or support investigations involving injuries, spills, environmental events, near misses, property damage, and operational disruptions; facilitate root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, OSHA recordkeeping assessments, lessons learned, and effectiveness reviews.

EHSS Program Governance, Training, Systems, and Safety Culture

• Author, revise, and maintain EHSS procedures, standards, plans, resources, SharePoint content, employee communications, training content, onboarding materials, compliance programs, and program governance.

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