EHS Site Manager

Pay Range: $55.00hr - $65.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, helping millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. This mission bonds a diverse workforce across nearly 60 countries. The organization is a leading manufacturer of generic medicines and a producer of many products on the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of the organization's medicines every single day. The candidate will join a team dedicated to making a difference in global health.

The Opportunity:

The organization is searching for a Manager of EHS to join the team at the North Wales and New Britain, PA sites. The office location for this position is in North Wales, PA. In this role, the successful candidate will champion a sustainable EHS culture ensuring employee Safety & Health, Environmental protection, and enabling compliant operations and business effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

The candidate supports two nearby distribution centers in North Wales and New Britain, Pennsylvania. The North Wales facility is the more active location, featuring forklifts, conveyors, sorters, moving equipment, pallet and material-handling activity, and carriers and trucks entering and exiting the facility. New Britain is a quieter, more traditional distribution center with racking and pallet movement. Safety is the number-one priority, followed by compliance.

• Provide guidance to site managers and employees, conduct internal, and support external, audits to ensure compliance with all applicable EHS requirements and design/recommend corrective and preventative action plans.
• Develop and conduct EHS awareness and safety programs for the sites.
• Identify EHS risks and define/recommend proactive mitigations.
• Ensure that site investment and changes in processes, equipment and systems are carried out in accordance with all relevant EHS and GMP requirements.
• Create, implement, monitor and update the site EHS plan in collaboration with the site leadership team.
• Provide necessary information and data to site managers and supervisors, Global EHS and other internal and external stakeholders, to support the achievement of EHS objectives and enhance the organization's reputation.
• Provide site leadership with analyses of incidents and investigation reports to identify significant or notable trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Support site leadership to create and maintain an EHS culture throughout the sites that inspires a proactive attitude towards employee safety.
• Help site leadership create an environment where people can speak openly and are encouraged to present new ideas about EHS stewardship.
• Develop and implement training programs, provide coaching, expertise and guidance to managers and employees at the sites.
• Lead continuous improvement in EHS using Operational Excellence (OPEX) principles and visible leadership to achieve goals and to enable compliant operations and business effectiveness.
• Support the site leadership team, impacting decision making and taking an active role in promoting cross-site initiatives, teamwork and collaboration across site functions.
• Bring global best practices into the site and actively share site perspective, knowledge and lessons learned to contribute and support a best-in class professional level of EHS globally.
• Develop trusted and proactive relationships with regulatory agencies, local community and external suppliers to promote compliance and social responsibility, in the organization's business interest.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering or other relevant discipline required.
• Professional certifications such as: CSP, CIH preferred.
• 5+ years of EHS experience including management and technical knowledge (such as: waste, water, air emissions, audit and inspection, industrial hygiene, hazard communication, ergonomics, and EHS management systems).
• Basic knowledge of local current and upcoming legislation and current best EHS practices.
• Experience in a distribution environment a plus.
• Project management knowledge and experience working within matrixed environments and knowledge of OPEX principles and tools.