Health, Safety and Environment Manager

Job title: Health, Safety and Environment Manager

Location: Waltham, MA

About the job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world

Job Summary:

This position will be responsible for the Health, Safety and Environmental programs at the Waltham R&D Campus. This position is accountable and responsible for ensuring the site HSE Management System is in place with appropriate HSE support and for advancing the HSE Culture of a growing and dynamic site. This position is highly visible and requires proven ability to interact with and influence senior management and all levels of the organization in order to identify, assess and reduce risks associated with changing technologies involved in the drug discovery and development process as well as those associated with major construction projects.

This position may also lead or participate in programs and networks across all of the NA Sanofi sites to share specific expertise from the candidate.

The position reports into the Director WX NA HSE.

About Sanofi

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main Responsibilities:

This position provides strong safety leadership and is accountable and responsible for HSE programs, ensuring the HSE Management System is established and implemented through interaction and influence of site management to assure compliance with company and legal requirements and to support the site in achieving continuous improvement in health, safety and environmental performance and culture.

• Leads the implementation and maintenance of comprehensive risk identification and management processes to address risks associated with chemical compound handling, use of biological materials and large-scale operations. Ensures processes are in place for communicating risks to the business unit management and stakeholders (risk map).

• Works with site management to develop and track HSE performance improvement plans based on risks, compliance and audit histories and corporate initiatives.

• Chairs/Co-Chair the HSE Committee and oversees the site emergency response efforts to ensure a good quality emergency and crisis management system for the site.

• Manages compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements which include Global HSE reporting and HSE related permitting and regulatory submissions.

• Responsible for working directly with site Occupational Health, Facilities Management and other appropriate personnel to maintain HSE program documentation, evaluate the impact of new regulations and company standards on the site, ensure implementation of the programs as applicable to the site, track specific regulations that affect the site, perform periodic regulatory and company standard compliance assessments of the programs at the site, submit timely documentation and input as required and be part of sub-teams as requested to assist in providing best practices across the sites.

• Ensures HSE exposure and risk assessments are performed for all relevant research, development and operations activities. Ensures report results are communicated to all affected personnel and implements corrective action plans as applicable to reduce exposures.

• Follow up on all corrective action plans to ensure completion and provide document control. Manages the site environmental programs by actively coordinating and interacting with the NA HSE Workplace Experience Environmental and Sustainability lead. The major environmental management responsibilities of this position include:

  • Hazardous Chemical Waste and Biological Waste Management

  • Recycling

  • Water and Air Permitting

  • SARA Right to Know

  • Ozone Depleting Substances

  • Global environment reporting (SHERPA)

  • Environmental Risk Assessment

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