Director, EHS (Environmental, Health and Safety)

Use Your Power for Purpose

Pfizer’s Environmental, Health and Safety team is critical to ensuring the highest safety standards are met patients and our colleagues. You will be part of an innovative community dedicated to delivering excellence which enables Pfizer to get our medicines in the hands of the people who need them most more efficiently, and safer, than ever before.

What You Will Achieve

In this role you will:

You will be part of a key member of the McPherson Site Leadership Team, driving a proactive Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) culture enabling Pfizer’s Purpose; Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Leading the site's EHS team, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to share the long-term site EHS strategy at a large and critical manufacturing site, working closely with site leaders to grow programs that deliver proactive improvements.  

It is your hard work and leadership that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe. 

In this role, you will work collaboratively with all functions within the site, establishing strategic direction for EHS programs to ensure the world class production of medicines.

• Sets strategic direction for EHS at the site . Partners with site leadership in establishing short and long term EHS objectives for the site. Establishes site EHS metrics, drives action plans and regularly publishes status updates.
• Leads the EHS program at the site to minimize impact of operations on the environment, assure the health, and safety, of company employees, contractors, and visitors, and to assure effective incident response, including Emergency Preparedness & Response and Investigation.
• Builds a culture of EHS excellence. Champions and drives cultural change within the site to enhance site safety culture and a ‘zero-incident’ mindset. 
• Ensures mechanisms are established to identify and manage EHS regulatory requirements that apply to site operations including preparation of impact assessments, permit applications, registrations, and certifications; preparation and review of routine and special reports; and oversight of routine inspections.  Acts as the primary point of EHS contact for external / regulatory bodies.
• Ensures implementation and maintenance of EHS management systems that meet contemporary external and Pfizer internal EHS standards and enhance and continuously improve the EHS program at the site.
• Establishes and maintains self-assessment systems that periodically evaluate the effectiveness of the site EHS management system.
• Integrates EHS risk assessment within business operations thereby assuring all initiatives at the site are conducted in a safe manner and in full compliance with all applicable regulating bodies or Global EHS standards.
• Manages, executes the site EHS budget.
• Ensures all EHS functions are adequately resourced and managed to maintain compliance with all applicable Company policies and government regulations and to meet contemporary standards. 
• Develops and enhances the EHS team through effective organizational design, selection, development, training, and performance management of all colleagues. 
• Ensures delivery of in-sourced and outsourced EHS services at the site, including selection and management of properly licensed wastefirms.
• Partners with Engineering to develop and drive Environmental Sustainability plans, including waste, water and Greenhouse Gas reduction roadmaps for the site.
• Ensures effective processes are established to ensure EHS review of capital projects; such that risk reduction controls are included within the design and project execution.
• Develops relationships with above site stakeholders including Global EHS, Business Continuity management, Global Colleague Wellness and EHS professionals within the Pfizer Community of Practice (COP), to ensure program alignment and leverage network resources.
• Leads Crisis Management Team when events arise.

Here is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Bachelor's Degree is required, discipline in EHS related field, Engineering, Sciences or a similar technical discipline
• 8+ years of related post-graduate EHS experience in a manufacturing environment in a regulated industry
• Extensive experience managing and implementing EHS programs
• 5+ years of managerial and leadership experience in directing staff professionals, preferably within EHS
• Thorough knowledge of federal EHS regulations and guidelines; maintains that knowledge to stay contemporary
• Proven track record of safety and environmental accomplishments and the ability to successfully drive and manage change
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent project management and