Global Health Manager

Job Description:

Global Health Manager – EHS Center of Excellence

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As a Global Health Manager – EHS Center of Excellence, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by being primarily responsible for implementing the global health strategy and leading a team of health subject matter experts to support facilities around the world.  In addition, you will be responsible to:

• Provide leadership and strategic direction for health topics (e.g. industrial hygiene, ergonomics, radiation protection) to achieve sustained performance improvements globally.
• Improve and refine health standards including training, tools, communication and audit requirements for topics including, but not limited to, noise/hearing conservation, PPE, ventilation, thermal stress, and radiation management and provide guidance to implement health strategies and expectations.
• Lead and define requirements to facilitate health improvements, based on a history of improvement methodology, through exposure risk assessment, management and control.
• Review and approve technology to mitigate exposure risks in partnership with engineering and manufacturing technology leadership and develop a program to conduct EHS reviews and scope approval for health-related CAPEX projects (e.g. ventilation, noise exposure, ergonomics, etc).
• Lead incident investigations, as required, and review root cause for all health incidents and near misses.  Ensure action items are complete, documented and learnings are replicated to other applicable facilities to prevent future incidents.
• Lead health networks to connect and coach SMEs globally and facilitate new leader reviews to ensure operations, engineering and site leaders fully understand potential health impacts and risks in line with their role and responsibility.
• Collaborate across global EHS, area EHS teams, operations, engineering, R&D, legal affairs, occupational medicine, and external stakeholders to drive EHS performance excellence and recognize and replicate EHS best practices.
• Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, attention to detail, and standard work to realize a working environment of open communications, project management and prioritization, and a full entitlement mindset toward compliance and risk reduction.
• Lead external benchmarking and trade association engagement to ensure the identification and integration of novel techniques and technologies to improve and sustain EHS performance.
• Lead and/or participate on global EHS audits.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in an engineering or science discipline (completed and verified prior to start)
• Ten (10) years of relevant health experience (e.g. industrial hygiene, ergonomics and radiation protection) in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Ten (10) years combined supervisory and/or management experience.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Health expertise in exposure assessment and controls with experience in a wide variety of chemicals and manufacturing/R&D environments, as well as expertise in ergonomics and radiation protection. 
• Experience implementing AI-based health solutions is a plus.
• Experience with global, regional (US, Asia, etc.), and/or state EHS regulations and risk reduction strategies for manufacturing facilities.
• Strategic thinker, high attention to detail, process-oriented, ability to develop and maintain good working relations with clients, ability to communicate (multi-lingual a plus) broadly, clear/concise writing ability and data documentation style, self-starter with the ability to multi-task.
• Strong demonstration of project management skills and ability to manage activities and resources to achieve targets and objectives.
• Previous experience in R&am