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Bristol Myers Squibb Associate Director, EHS, Safety CoE in New Brunswick, New Jersey
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The Associate Director, EHS, Safety & Incident Management position will advocate, coach, coordinate, implement, assess, and improve safety outcomes using global and local regulations and consensus guides, BMS management systems, policies and procedures. The primary focus of this role will be to support BMS as a crucial member of the Safety Center of Excellence (COE) within the Environment, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EOHSS) Department.
The Associate Director is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Environment Health & Safety (EHS) programs pertaining to Safety. This includes but is not limited to the following areas: High Risk Work, safety culture development and enhancement, incident management, incident investigation, electronic collection database updates (Enablon System), incident trending and development of graphical analysis of incidents from a global network perspective.
Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
Competency with global federal, state, and local safety regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.
Proactively collaborates and supports Environment, Occupational Health, and Sustainability programs by removing obstacles to shared goals.
Develops and implements new global EOHSS programs, policies, and procedures and updates and improves existing ones.
Demonstrates applicable regulatory and technical expertise as the SME for Safety programs including but not limited; Confined Space Entry, Hot Work, Control of Hazardous Energy, Excavation and Trenching, Fall Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Machine Guarding, and Incident Management.
Provide practical guidance and support execution of global programs, policies, procedures, & trainings.
Manages the Corporate Facility Self-Assessment Program, supporting facilities efforts for compliance with our internal EOHSS requirements.
Conducts incident reviews and investigates causes of events to develop practical solutions that can be leveraged across the network that minimize and/or prevent risk.
Proven experience with key investigation techniques that support identification of all causes and supports the development of corrective actions.
Lead or assist incident investigations to ensure root cause analysis is completed and causes are identified with proper corrective actions.
Review enterprise wide EOHSS incidents for potential serious injury and fatality (SIF) events and escalate as necessary.
Lead the SIF investigation and review process, develop lessons learned and safety alerts to provide network wide communication.
Demonstrates human factor investigation techniques to understand human motivations during non-compliance events.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
Minimum education of a Bachelor’s degree in environmental, industrial hygiene, physical sciences, or engineering. Advanced degree preferred. Prefer certification through an accredited organization.
Minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) plus years of experience in EHS systems and manufacturing within the pharmaceutical or related industry.
Expert knowledge of Environmental, Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and Emergency Response best practices in office, manufacturing, and research and development (R&D) environments.
Demonstrates knowledge in OSHA Recordkeeping requirements, ability to determine OSHA recordability of injuries and electronic OSHA log reporting.
Proven experience of international and regional/country EHS regulations and best practices.
Demonstrates ability to interpret EHS incidents within the management system to develop incident trending and analysis that supports focused program enhancements.
Demonstrates ability to interact with executive level management requiring negotiations of extremely difficult matters to influence policy making bodies both internally and externally.
Travel
- Ability to travel up to 20%
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On-site Protocol
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.
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BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.
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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Req Number: R1578116
Updated: 2024-04-26 01:25:12.003 UTC
Location: New Brunswick-NJ
Bristol Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.