Director, Safety, Health & Environment

Director, Safety, Health & Environment 

The Director of Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) will be responsible for implementing and delivering the SHE strategy including environmental sustainability and resilience across Boston Site Operations including Waltham and Cambridge MA.   
 

Essential Job Functions: 

• Lead, develop and execute the SHE strategy for Boston sites. 

• Drive KPIs in line with business expectations and monitor KPIs, goals, objectives, and targets for SHE and environmental sustainability management.  

• Lead the implementation of the SHE Management system. 

• Define and agree with the SHE principles and ways of working in leased facilities. 

• Develop and lead a team of diverse and experienced SHE professionals to provide governance, advice, and support to the sites. 

• Deliver communication and training strategies to promote awareness of SHE and environmental sustainability initiatives, performance, and design amongst cross-functional organizations.  

• Provide knowledge and capability to obtain, maintain and assure licenses or permits to operate and adhere to local city, state, and AZ SHE policies, and procedures. 

• Provide local delivery of Global SHE standards and principles including sustainability and business continuity. 

• Lead the interface with relevant external regulatory bodies to ensure license to operate. 

• Lead, develop and deliver new initiatives and improvement programs in SHE and Facilities Management strategically aligned with business and functional needs. 

• Partner with outsourced providers on the development and maintenance of Health and Wellbeing services for the sites. 

• Be the 'Point of Contact' (PoC) for Global SHE for Boston sites. 

• Establish and maintain high quality relationships with all science customers, site and departmental leaders, existing customers and external regulatory agencies across the Boston portfolio. 

• Participates in global R&D SHE networks with Heads of SHE across the globe. 

• Ensures the team works with third-party architects and engineers in pursuit to achieve LEED Platinum certification and qualify building systems in alignment with AstraZeneca’s Ambition Zero Carbon for the new Cambridge, MA building. 

• Ensures the team works with third-party architects and engineers in pursuit of achieving WELL V2.0 Certificate level design with the intent to obtain rating status currently.  

• Lead implementation efforts for environmental sustainability, including Ambition Zero Carbon strategy, into a playbook. 

• Ensure appropriate internal controls and measurement systems are developed and implemented to assess environmental and sustainability performance across sites.