Specialist, EOHSS

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Summary:

The primary focus of this role is to support Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) as the Specialist of EOHSS for the Devens Facility within the Department of Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EOHSS).   As the Specialist you will play an active role in supporting the company’s environmental, occupational health, safety, and sustainability (EOHSS) efforts within the Devens Facility to drive long-term company and stakeholder value.  The individual in this role will be responsible for providing administrative support and developing, planning, organization, and executing EOHSS programs, policies, procedures, and training to ensure that the site maintains a safe, healthy, and environmentally compliant facility in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.  This position plays a key role in aligning corporate and local policies and procedures and will enable and foster a proactive and integrated EOHSS culture that promotes a positive, proactive approach throughout all operations.  

Responsibilities:

• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides. 

• Develop and implement new EOHSS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.

• Manage a wide range of communications and preparation / distribution of EOHSS communications.

• Develop, create, and manage site platforms, databases, and SharePoint for documentation of procedures, forms, SOPs, investigations, reporting, inspections, action items, communications, and other management system platforms and their outcomes in line with quality and EOHSS requirements.

• Develop, create, and maintain, and distribute EOHSS reports, and records as assigned.

• Create and maintain a systemic process to ensure workflow timelines for EOHSS events and action plans are adhered to including mechanisms for EOHSS performance and trend reports.

• Manage the EOHSS training process for the site. Including collaboratively working with trainers to develop new and revised training, accurately assigning training based on guidelines, and supporting training records requests.

• Executes, tracks, and manages P.O.s, check requests, financial reports, expenses, correspondences, and meetings.

• Key contact for internal customers, researchers, facilities, management, and other cross functional groups, building strong relationships by handling EOHSS inquiries.

• Participate in and show leadership in an EOHSS culture at the site that partners with operational teams to ensure all are accountable for EOHSS culture and performance, modeling what good looks like.

• Proactively collaborates at site and above-site levels.

• Participates in EOHSS operational and tier discussions, EOHSS committees and teams; and EOHSS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.

• Challenges the status quo and brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes (learn and apply new concepts).

• Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalates concerns, resource constraints, needs, with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.

Qualifications:

• B.S. degree environmental, science preferred.

• Prior EHS Incident and/or Project Coordinator experience required.

• Proficient with Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point).

• Experie