Senior Specialist Safety & Environment PSM

Job Description

Basic Functions and Responsibility:

Provides technical direction and program leadership for Process Safety Management (PSM), EHS Management of Change (MOC), and Loss Prevention across West Point, North Wales, and Springhouse Innovation Park, supporting Vaccines Manufacturing, Research & Development, and site support functions. Partners with operations, engineering, maintenance, project teams, and global experts to integrate process safety into design, startup, and operations. Applies company standards and regulatory and engineering requirements, field verification, event learning, and program data to close safeguard gaps, prevent incidents and asset losses, and sustain risk reduction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as site PSM subject matter expert and GSE advisor for the PSM standard; align priorities, accountabilities, and implementation with system owners, divisional PSM leads, and process owners.
• Maintain PSM procedures, tools, templates, and role-specific training; translate standard changes and audit and event lessons into practical requirements and guidance.
• Oversee potentially hazardous process inventories, process-owner assignments, and PHA revalidation schedules; guide applicability decisions and risk reviews for hazards outside formal PSM coverage.
• Provide technical leadership for Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), including HAZOP, What-If, and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA); support qualified facilitator selection, assess analysis quality, and approve reports and revalidations within assigned authority.
• Coordinate As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) reviews with process owners, engineering, management, and global experts; document technical rationale, approvals, risk-reduction commitments, and timelines.
• Partner with process owners and engineering to maintain process descriptions, safe operating limits, and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs); verify documented safeguards against installed conditions through field walkdowns.
• Support capital projects from design through turnover, including PHA planning, design and change reviews, and startup-critical action closure; promote inherently safer design and transfer process safety information and open actions to site owners.
• Lead EHS MOC procedures, assessment checklists, action guidance, training, and digital workflows; review changes and participate in Pre-Start-Up Safety and Environmental Reviews (PSSERs) and approvals within assigned authority.
• Partner with mechanical integrity, pressure relief, automation, and maintenance specialists to document and field-verify safety-critical safeguards and link them to inspection, testing, maintenance, and change-control requirements.
• Support process safety investigations and potential high-severity event reviews; coordinate evidence-based classification and escalation, identify systemic causes and safeguard gaps, and verify corrective and preventive action effectiveness.
• Coordinate Loss Prevention with facilities, engineering, operations, insurers, and global specialists; organize risk surveys, communicate findings, and track maintenance and capital improvements for fire protection, storage, and asset protection.
• Conduct self-assessments, field verifications, and audit support; assign action owners and deadlines, verify documented closure, and report program health, emerging risks, overdue actions, and resource needs to site leadership and EHS councils.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Occupational Safety, or a related technical field.

Required Experience and Skills:

• At least 5 years of process safety, engineering, or technical EHS experience in manufacturing, pilot plant, research, or similarly complex settings, including direct process safety program implementation.
• Experience conducting or supporting PHAs using HAZOP and What-If, applying LOPA, and developing actionable risk-reduction recommendations.
• Working knowledge of EHS MOC, pre-startup reviews, process safety information, mechanical integrity interfaces, and hazardous-process lifecycle management.
• Ability to interpret P&IDs, process descriptions, operating limits, and technical records; assess safeguards and recognize when specialized engineering or global expertise is needed.
• Ability to apply company standards, regulations, engineering codes, and recognized good engineering practices to design, equipment changes, field conditions, and capital projects.
• Strong risk assessment, investigation, problem-solving, project coordination, and action-verification skills; ability to prioritize and escalate significant risks.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams, deliver training, and explain technical risks to operations and leaders; proficiency with Microsoft Office and digital risk, MOC, and action-management systems.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, or other highly regulated manufacturing or research environments.

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