Senior SHE Professional

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The Position

Are you passionate about creating safe, healthy, and environmentally responsible workplaces? As a Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Business Partner at Roche, you'll play a critical role in shaping and sustaining a culture of safety and compliance across diverse business functions—from Manufacturing and R&D to Supply Chain and Facilities. This dynamic position combines strategic program leadership with hands-on technical expertise, allowing you to influence SHE outcomes at a site-wide level while collaborating across teams and guiding initiatives that drive continuous improvement and regulatory excellence.

The Opportunity

Functions as a Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Business Partner for assigned functional and business areas (e.g. Manufacturing, Facilities, R&D, Supply Chain, etc.). In addition, will fulfill site-wide responsibilities for assigned areas of specific program ownership. 

The position will evaluate, develop, implement, and maintain SHE policies, procedures, and programs to ensure compliance with all local, city, state, and federal laws and regulations and with company SHE guidelines, requirements, and initiatives within assigned areas of accountability.

Duties are diverse and complex often involving research, analysis and solution development. Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge of a particular field or business function. Plans, conducts and oversees work involving large and important/complex projects. Does not supervise but provides direction to the team on projects and assignments. May provide direction and guidance to more junior SHE staff along with contract resources. Reviews progress with management.

May serve as a resource to all levels of personnel across our business area, including other Roche locations and assist external customers as needed. Works with considerable independence to provide direction and guidance on issues related to areas of expertise to department leadership, business functions and /or SHE staff members.

Who you are

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, develops, implements, and maintains SHE policies, procedures, and programs for regulatory compliance, company-related Directives and Standards, Bay Area sites’ goals, and other company initiatives and requirements within assigned areas of responsibility. Bay Area program management responsibilities may include (but are not limited to) Lockout/Tagout, Confined Space Entry, Fire Protection Systems, Hot Work,  Refrigerant Management, and Electrical Safety. Site program management responsibilities will include a variety of other physical safety, environmental and health programs.

• Facilitates across multiple business functions, units, and/or business areas in order to help management establish objectives and plan SHE compliance and sustainability programs to achieve objectives.

• Serves as the subject matter expert in the implementation of one or more program areas. Leads the identification of programs that need improvement. Creates and leads teams to address deficiencies.

• Provides expertise to both management and lower-level positions. Assists management and staff in resolving difficult technical problems, interpreting laws, regulations and Roche Directives and Standards.

• Assist management with new staff orientation and training as well as developing staffs’ ability to achieve total impact recognition.

• Conducts analysis of key program areas or as assigned by management. Analyzes trends, makes monthly, quarterly and annual comparisons. Works with vendors, staff and applicable business functions to identify opportunities, implement initiatives, and maintain program execution. Establish/improve the company’s ability to track, measure, and report on assigned activities.

• Identifies opportunities for improvements in current systems, works with area management for change, implements changes, monitors progress and refines systems.

• Proactively inspects and conducts hazard evaluations of work areas related to subject matter expertise. Assesses impacts associated with equipment, materials, processes, and facilities, in order to identify and control hazardous conditions or