EHS and Business Continuity Lead

Use Your Power for Purpose

Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients.  Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.

What You Will Achieve

This opportunity plays an influential role as a key member of the Site Leadership Team in driving a proactive Environmental, Health and Safety culture enabling Pfizer’s Purpose; Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.  This role affords an unparalleled opportunity for the candidate to share the long-term site EHS strategy at a key manufacturing site working closely with site leaders to grow programs that deliver proactive improvements. 

This role will work collaboratively with all functions within the site, establishing strategic direction for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS)/Business Continuity Management (BCM) programs to ensure the world class production of medicines. This role will:

• Build a strong EHS team and grow and develop the team.

• Ensure site programs fully comply with EHS/BCM company policies and Global EHS standards.  Regularly review and update site EHS/BCM programs.

• Establish and maintain site Risk Register and implement risk reduction strategies and actions.

• Establish mechanisms to ensure proactive EHS assessment of the impact of changes.

• Oversee EHS operational duties including regulatory permitting and reporting.

• Set and deliver on EHS metrics and commitments (internal and external).

• Partner with all operations to proactively plan and execute EHS/BCM duties, requirements, risk mitigation, etc. 

• Oversee EHS input into capital projects throughout the lifecycle to ensure alignment with EHS strategic plans.

• Deliver on the EHS budget. 

• As a member of the Site Leadership team participates in leadership events, lead change management initiatives across the site, support site messaging, be active on the production floor, establish relationships with all colleagues, and drive continuous improvement across the site in all areas.

How You Will Achieve It

• Set strategic direction at the site and build a culture of EHS/BCM excellence.

• Functions as member of the Site Leadership Team providing direction and leadership for the site.

• Leads the EHS and BCM programs 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.

• 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/BCM management systems that meet contemporary external and Pfizer internal EHS standards and enhance and continuously improve the program at the site.

• Establishes and maintains self-assessment systems that periodically evaluate the effectiveness of the site EHS/BCM management systems.

• Partners with the site leadership in establishing short and long term EHS/BCM objectives for the site, to ensure safety and minimization of environmental footprint.  Establishes site EHS/BCM metrics, drives action plans and regularly publishes status updates.

• Collaboratively equips the site leadership team in establishing and maintaining an effective operating environment that facilitates EHS cultural growth.

• 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 the site EHS budget.

• Ensures all EHS/BCM functions are adequately resourced and managed to maintain compliance with all applicable Company policies and government re