Manager, Environment, Health & Safety

Manager, Environment, Health & Safety

The Senior Manager, Environment, Health & Safety role is responsible for providing compliant EHS programs to all departments at the IOVA-A facility. Integrates EHS programs into daily operations to assure regulatory compliance, achieves continuous performance improvement, meeting EHS performance objectives. Partners with operations to develop objectives to achieve these goals in alignment with site business goals and values. Provides technical leadership to ensures the biological safety programs adhere to federal, state, and local EHS regulations. Manages the day-to-day requirements and activities of the EHS incident management and reporting system.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Serves as the site subject matter expert regarding general safety, chemical hygiene, biosafety (BSL 2), and environmental management.
• Implements new and improves existing EHS programs to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus standards.
• Provides and executes programs, policies, procedures, and trainings as the site SME for high-risk work programs including but not limited to working from heights, electrical safety, hot work, confined space entry, lockout tagout, and contractor safety.
• Completes hazard assessments, coordinates IH monitoring, process hazard analysis, life safety reviews, incident investigations, environmental reports, and permit applications as needed.
• Participates in and supports EHS operational and tier discussions, safety committees and teams, self-assessments, and audits.
• Reviews processes, facilities, procedures, and management of change documents to assure conformance to recognized EHS regulations, standards, and guidelines.
• Provides support to staff in completing injury / illness investigations, additional training, data analysis, and addresses specific concerns as they are raised.
• Participates in regulatory inspections and assists in addressing noted concerns and citations.
• Reviews site data for the EHS reporting system (Enablon); manages user permissions; identifies data gaps and other concerns; generates output reports and dashboards using the appropriate BI tools; tracks and communicates EHS score card metrics.
• Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Travel

Required Education, Skills, and Knowledge

Preferred Education, Skills, and Knowledge

Physical Demands and Activities Required :

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made upon request to enable individuals to perform essential functions. Please contact Human Resources to request an accommodation.

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