EHS Business Partner

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At Exact Sciences, we’re helping change how the world prevents, detects and guides treatment for cancer. We give patients and clinicians the clarity needed to make confident decisions when they matter most. Join our team to find a purpose-driven career, an inclusive culture, and robust benefits to support your life while you’re working to help others.

Position Overview

The EHS Business Partner will support site-wide EHS initiatives, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. This role involves EHS reporting, tracking key metrics, and communicating safety standards to employees. The EHS Business Partner will work with leadership to minimize risks, protect employees, and drive proactive safety measures. Additionally, the position includes crisis management, ensuring effective responses to emergencies, and fostering a strong EHS culture through employee engagement in training, safety programs, and team participation.

Essential Duties

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (HR, Operations, Quality) to integrate EHS initiatives into daily operations and help achieve site EHS goals and objectives.
• Foster an engaged workforce that actively participates in safety and environmental initiatives, taking ownership of EHS performance.
• Provide actionable insights on EHS best practices, regulations, and risk management, supporting supervisors and managers in decision-making.
• Analyze data from safety incidents, audits, inspections, and employee feedback to identify trends, root causes, and areas for improvement, supporting corrective actions and monitoring safety performance.
• Ensure EHS performance metrics are tracked, goals are met or exceeded, and best practices are implemented.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations (e.g., OSHA, EPA, DNR, CDC, DOH) and assist with preparation for regulatory inspections and audits. Participate in regulatory reporting, including OSHA logs and environmental compliance documentation.
• Conduct regular site inspections and audits to ensure adherence to safety and environmental standards, addressing hazards and implementing corrective actions in a timely manner.
• Investigate workplace incidents, identify root causes and ensure corrective actions are taken.
• Provide timely support to managers and supervisors on health and environmental concerns.
• Support the annual update and implementation of risk assessments, job hazard assessments, and required internal and regulatory audits.
• Provide safety training to staff, including new hire orientation and ongoing safety programs.
• Support sustainability initiatives focused on waste reduction, energy efficiency, and water conservation.
• Assist with testing and maintaining emergency response plans and procedures.
• Respond in real-time to emergencies, ensuring effective communication and coordination with internal teams and external agencies.
• Support EHS engagement through teams and committees to accomplish annual goals.
• Oversee hazardous and infectious waste disposal program.
• Work across disciplines with EHS team members to oversee the safety activities of all laboratories, laboratory personnel, contractors, and support staff; communicate to appropriate Management when risks are observed, corrected, or in need of further management emphasis.
• Maintain proficiency in regulations, standards, guidelines, and trends in laboratory safety and environmental health and safety. Anticipate and evaluate their impact and communicate requirements to employees and management.
• Assist in air quality, noise, biological, toxic, and other hazard sampling.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and group situations.
• Effective time management skills.
• Ability to react to issues in a positive, productive way and successfully deal with work delegation in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to influence cross-functional partners, lead organizational change, develop cross-functional internal sponsors, and build alignment to achieve desired outcomes.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision.
• Adaptable, open to change, and able to work in ambiguous situations and respond to new information and unexpected circumstances.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Ability to lift up to 40 pounds for approximately 5% o