Senior Environmental Health & Safety Specialist - Chemical/Laboratory Safety

Work Schedule

Standard Office Hours (40/wk)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Laboratory Setting, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Strong Odors (chemical, lubricants, biological products etc.), Will work with hazardous/toxic materials

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our PPD™ Laboratory services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

What will you do in this role?

• Manage, create, modify, and lead EHS programs and activities, and provides innovative solutions including regulatory expertise, recommendations and guidance to ensure good safe practices and overall compliance.
• Own a few major regulatory programs depending on area of expertise.  Examples include biosafety, radiation safety, chemical safety, waste management, etc.   
• Provides support on visits and requests from regulatory agencies, contractors and clients on audits and projects.
• Provide EHS support for several laboratory departments to meet regulations, PPD GMP Lab, and corporate requirements.
• Provide directions to stakeholders (employees) and lead by example to ensure safe procedures, practices and regulatory compliance are in place. Responds to inquiries and provides follow-up to health, safety, and environmental issues to site management.
• Ensure that licensing, permitting, or other environmental, health or safety requirements are met and take appropriate actions to ensure that any non-compliance issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Develop/Conduct/Coordinate EHS training.
• Develop and update assigned environmental, health and safety related mandated procedures for assigned departments and programs.
• Assist supervisors in conducting work-related injury/illness investigation. Manage incidents, risks, hazards, and escalations through to resolutions.
• Work with a sense of urgency to motivate & drive stakeholders to complete actions within agreed timelines.
• Updates management on new or changed regulations in a timely manner. Makes recommendations on feasible solutions and alternatives for compliance.
• Develop and drive improvement of processes of the EHS system.
• Facilitate and coordinate cross functional projects.
• Additional duties may include leading management of chemical and biological waste streams and processes, Safety committees, supports Radiation Safety Officer, industrial hygiene planning and sampling, coordinate emergency drills and/or work with assigned site staff on regulatory inspections or other internal and external audits.

Qualification requirements:

Education requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health, life science or natural science or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification is required.
• Master’s degree in occupational safety, environmental health, life science or public health preferred.

In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Experience requirements:

• Previous related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).
• 1+ year of leadership responsibility (direct or indirect) is required.
• Subject matter expert in one or more areas: biosafety, waste management, chemical safety, radiation safety, etc.
• Multiple years of Chemical or BioSafety experience highly preferred.
• Experience in laboratories or pharmaceut