Manager, EMU, Construction and Contractor Safety

Use Your Power for Purpose

Pfizer’s Environmental, Health and Safety team is critical to ensuring the highest safety standards are met for 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 more efficiently, and safer, than ever before.

What You Will Achieve

The Manager, EMU, Construction and Contractor Safety is responsible for representing Pfizer in the effective execution of the contractor and construction safety management processes.

This is a key role in ensuring the delivery of consistent, high-quality communications from the EHS department to the wider Kalamazoo site while being responsible for monitoring and/or auditing third-party contractor and/or construction activities for compliance with contract requirements. Manager will also support the Engineering, Maintenance and Utilities (EMU) departments as a safety liaison.

Oversee multi-disciplinary Construction and Contractor Safety team ensuring:

• Safe and effective delivery of services within established schedule

• ISNetworld and PROCORE qualification and safety requirements are met.

• Appropriate project documentation is maintained.

• Oversee and support day-to-day operations as the EMU Safety Liaison
  
  How You Will Achieve It

• Promote and exemplify Pfizer Core Values of Courage, Excellence, Equity and Joy to ensure they are effectively incorporated into our contractor's on-site programs and activities.

• Ability to refine, lead and execute Pfizer’s vision of an Incident & Injury Free Workplace.

• This role will further develop, maintain, and oversee the construction safety contractor management program.

• Ensure project delivery follows all contract documentation, applicable standards, guidelines, laws, regulations, codes, policies and Pfizer standards and recommended practices.

• Participate in pre-construction project planning as needed.

• Manage development and preparation of detailed project status reporting, presentations, and updates to related systems.

• Ensure effective communication on project status and timely resolution of issues.

• Conducts safety inspections, documents results, and corrective action of field assessments and audits of contractor and construction projects.

• Works closely with construction business units' staff, contracts, legal, consultants, contractors, and other stakeholders.

• Mentors EHS staff in all aspects of EMU, construction and contractor management

• Assist in conducting area safety meetings and EHS committee meeting.

• Support incident investigations to ensure timely identification of root cause and the implementation of effective CAPAs to reduce risk.

• Ensure senior management / leadership is informed of EHS incidents in a timely manner.

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience; OR a PhD with 0+ years of experience; OR as associate's degree with 8 years
  of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 10 years of relevant experience

• Experience successfully deploying safety culture improvement programs across a large organization.

• Experience effectively consulting and communicating at all levels of a large multidisciplinary campus.

• Field experience in construction safety with a solid understanding of the areas of Hazard Communication, LOTO, Machine Guarding, Ergonomics, Incident Investigation, and Safety Training along with regulatory coordination and report preparation.

• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.

• Proficiency at project management and internal customer management.

• Success building effective working relationships with departmental leaders such as engineering, manufacturing and quality.

• Strong understanding of safety regulatory requirements, specifically OSHA/NFPA standards and conducting regulatory compliance audits.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to use mathematics (including basic algebra and sta