EHS Process Safety Advisor

Are you energized by an opportunity to improve delivery of safety strategies and services across businesses, geographically and enterprise wide?  If so, this role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

As an Environmental Health & Safety Process Safety Advisor, you will serve as a full member of the EHS R&D team which includes providing EHS business partner support to R&D and be part of the site emergency response team. This position partners with the Process Safety Manager to ensure equipment and systems with major accident hazard potential are identified and the relevant process safety reviews are completed. Ensure EHS considerations are incorporated into relevant capital and site minor works projects. You will be responsible to ensure all workplace transport requirements are implemented at the Upper Merion and Upper Providence Sites.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Ability to perform gas calculations for both asphyxiation and toxic gases to ensure the proper engineering controls are in place.
• Ensures high risk work activities to the business are effectively identified and managed by the provision of industry leading technical innovation and support.
• Partners with the Process Safety Manager to ensure that the Process Safety Program delivers value to the business via increased workplace safety, reduced environmental impact and increased regulatory compliance.
• Represent the interests of GSK in key external policy forums.
• Champion the interests of stakeholders within the business (RDES, R&D and PDH) in GSK EHS policy and strategy development
• Shaping change in the external environment is a key job factor.  Ability to manage complexity and uncertainty in rapidly changing situations is required.  Autonomous decision making is often essential.
• The breadth and number of activities directed by this position necessitates strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage tasks concurrently.  Many of these tasks are initiated by the job holder; others come from internal customers and other stakeholders external to GSK. Deadlines are negotiable, but the job holder is required to make independent decisions as necessary.
• Position interfaces on a regular basis with all GSK business sectors.
• Prepare, plan and deliver environment awareness and promotion events.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 1+ years of experience in Environmental Health & Safety
• Knowledge of core Health and Safety Principles and regulations
• Experience working on a COMAH facility
• Working knowledge of emergency and change management procedures

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Post Graduate Degree
• Experience in pharmaceutical research or manufacturing where compliance to defined level of standards is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with continuous improvement initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in line and matrix teams
• Experience working in positions requiring strong customer focus

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and