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Associate Director, Safety & Incident Management, Safety Center of Excellence
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The Associate Director will advocate, coach, coordinate, implement, assess, and improve safety outcomes using global and local regulations and consensus guides, BMS management systems, policies and procedures, to promote compliant, forward-leaning culture and preserve BMS’ reputation while driving shared Company objectives.
The primary focus of this role will be to support BMS as a crucial member of the Safety Center of Excellence (COE) within the Corporate Department of Environment, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EOHSS).
This position 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: EHS programs considered 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.
Manages the global incident investigation and learning process and ensures consistent and quality investigations and effective corrective actions.
Ensures consistency in the determination of recordable injuries and classification.
This position significantly supports aligning corporate policies/procedures by championing collaboration with local development of site-based programs. This position must foster a proactive and integrated EOHSS culture that promotes a positive, proactive approach throughout areas of responsibility.
Promote compliant, forward-leaning culture and preserve BMS’ reputation while driving shared Company objectives at the direction of the Safety COE Lead. This position will be expected to approach the coordination of these tasks in alignment with the BMS values of integrity, inclusion, passion, innovation, urgency, and accountability.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
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.
Proactively collaborates at both the site and above-site level.
Skills/Knowledge Required:
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.
Broad knowledge of Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology EHS challenges in Manufacturing and R&D environments.
Demonstrates ability to interpret EHS incidents within the Enablon system to develop incident trending and analysis that supports focused program enhancements.
Brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes and learns and applies new concepts.
Use of logic and reasoning in problem solving to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions.
Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs, with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of stakeholder trust, confidence, and ability to manage client expectations.
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively and succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Proven ability to work well with international cultures and diversity.
Ability to build trust and relationships and create a collaborative environment.
Demonstrates ability to interact with executive level management requiring negotiations of extremely difficult matters to influence policy making bodies both internally and externally.
Ability to work effectively and in a collaborative team environment where results are achieved through influence and the incorporation of multiple points of view.
Ability to influence and drive change.
Flexible, with an ability to work effectively in an environment of shifting issues and priorities.
Ability to forge cross functional partnerships and strategies.
Strategic thinker who can balance near term objectives with long term goals and outcomes, evaluate risk and develop effective solutions through an integrated multi-disciplined decision-making approach.
Exercise sound judgment in making compliant decisions and recommendations.
Ability to attend to multiple high priority items simultaneously and think creatively, critically, and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with both urgency and agility, calmly.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Works independently against established objectives and goals.
Education and Experience
Bachelor of Science degree in science or engineering
Minimum 7-10+ years of experience in EHS systems and manufacturing within the pharmaceutical or other related industry.
Professional license or certification in appropriate discipline desired.
Travel
Ability to travel up to 20%
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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
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.
COVID-19 Information
To protect the safety of our workforce, customers, patients and communities, the policy of the Company requires all employees and workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have received an exception based on an approved request for a medical or religious reasonable accommodation. Therefore, all BMS applicants seeking a role located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico must confirm that they have already received or are willing to receive the full COVID-19 vaccination by their start date as a qualification of the role and condition of employment. This requirement is subject to state and local law restrictions and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions such as Montana. This requirement is also subject to discussions with collective bargaining representatives in the U.S.
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