Senior Manager, EHS

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The EHS Senior Manager role at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is a critical leadership position responsible for supporting the Devens Facility's environmental, health, and safety (EHS) efforts. This role aligns with the A1 shift schedule to provide advanced support to manufacturing operations. As the EHS Senior Manager, you will play a key role in driving the company's EHS initiatives within the Devens, MA campus. Primary responsibilities include developing, planning, organizing, and executing advanced EHS programs, policies, procedures, and training. These efforts ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements, maintaining a safe, healthy, and environmentally compliant facility. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and other stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and foster a proactive EHS culture. By aligning corporate and local policies and procedures, you will contribute to the overall success of the organization.

*This is a 12 hour rotating shift (8am-8pm), therefore eligible for a 5% shift differential

Key Responsibilities

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

• Develop and implement new EHS programs, policies, and procedures, and enhance existing ones.

• Provide advanced support to clinical and commercial manufacturing operations within the Devens campus, with some overlap with other functions that operate within those spaces, including Site Engineering, Just-In-Time warehousing, and Quality and Biological Development.

• Attend governance meetings as needed to support operations, including Operation huddles, Tier meetings, OBEYA reviews, GEMBA walks, and staff meetings.

• Develop, manage, and maintain site platforms, databases, and SharePoint for documentation of procedures, forms, SOPs, investigations, reporting, inspections, action items, communications, and other management system platforms.

• Conduct hazard/risk/exposure/ergonomic assessments for current and future process introductions, collaborating with external consultants as necessary.

• Support process safety management, environmental, and industrial hygiene programs.

• Create and distribute EHS reports and records.

• Establish a systematic process to ensure adherence to workflow timelines for EHS events and action plans, including mechanisms for EHS performance and trend reports.

• Actively engage in EHS training programs and contribute to the development of curricula.

• Support local committees, including safety committees.

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for key EHS contact for clinical and commercial manufacturing operations, and cross-functional groups, addressing EHS inquiries and building strong relationships.

• Demonstrate leadership in fostering an EHS culture at the site, partnering with operational teams to ensure accountability for EHS culture and performance.

• Collaborate proactively at site and above-site levels.

• Participate in EHS operational and tier discussions, EHS committees and teams, and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.

• Challenge the status quo and introduce new approaches to continuously improve workflow effectiveness and processes.

• Review and ensure timely resolution of issues, escalating concerns, resource constraints, and needs to appropriate leaders in the organization.
   

Qualifications & Experience
 

• Strong interpersonal