Associate Director Environmental Health and Safety

Bristol Myers Squibb • Bothell, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Director, EHS role at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) in Bothell supports the Department of Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHS). This individual will lead the company’s EHS efforts to drive long-term company and stakeholder value by developing, planning, organizing, and executing EHS programs, policies, procedures, and training to ensure a safe, healthy, and environmentally compliant facility. The position is crucial for aligning corporate and local policies and procedures, fostering a proactive and integrated EHS culture across all operations.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in science or engineering.
• A minimum of 7-10 years of previous experience in a manufacturing or research/laboratory setting in an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) role.
• Ability to influence and drive a sustainable EHS culture.
• Experience managing people.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 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.
• Proclivity for partnership and cross-team collaboration.

Nice To Haves

• A Master’s / Graduate degree in a relevant discipline is desired.
• Previous experience in chemical or pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Professional license or certification; RBP (Registered Biosafety Professional), CBP (Certified Biosafety Professional, CSP (Certified Safety Professional), CIH (Certified Industrial Hygienist), desired.
• Six Sigma Certification (Green belt or above) desired.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership teams to integrate safety and environmental management systems into operations, as measured by performance metrics.
• Ensures 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 update and improve existing ones.
• Translate Corporate and Divisional standards and guides into appropriate site procedures.
• Lead site and/or local area audits for compliance with applicable regulatory requirements (i.e., OSHA, EPA, WA L&I, etc.).
• Track and report safety and environmental metrics.
• Provide applicable regulatory and technical practical guidance and execute programs, policies, procedures, and trainings including but not limited to, biological safety (BLS-1 and BSL-2), laboratory safety, chemical safety, environmental management, industrial hygiene, industrial wastewater discharge, and high risk work activities related to construction, maintenance, electrical safety, work from heights, excavation and trenching, machine guarding and safe work permits.
• Execute Management of Change (MOC) program for EHS to include EHS Impact Assessments and Change Requests.
• Investigates causes of industrial accidents and/or injuries to develop solutions to minimize or prevent recurrence.
• Participates in EHS operational and tier discussions, EHS committees and teams; and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
• Utilize and manage site platforms for investigations, reporting, inspection, and other management system platforms and their outcomes.
• Conducts Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) reviews against BMS standards and applicable compliance standards, identifies gaps, and completed actions against gaps identified in a systemic fashion using appropriate quality and EHS system tools for documentation and CAPA tracking purposes.
• Helps to coach and mentor EHS Team members during day-to-day operations.
• Brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes and learn and apply new concepts.

Benefits

• Health Coverage: Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision care.
• Wellbeing Support: Programs such as BMS Well-Being Account, BMS Living Life Better, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Financial Well-being and Protection: 401(k) plan, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, accident insurance, supplemental health insurance, business travel protection, personal liability protection, identity theft benefit, legal support, and survivor support.
• Paid Time Off US Exempt Employees: flexible time off (unlimited, with manager approval, 11 paid national holidays).
• Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico and Rayzebio Exempt, Non-Exempt, Hourly Employees: 160 hours annual paid vacation for new hires with manager approval, 11 national holidays, and 3 optional holidays.
• Additional time off for employees may include unlimited paid sick time, up to 2 paid volunteer days per year, summer hours flexibility, leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs and an annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day.
• All global employees full and part-time who are actively employed at and paid directly by BMS at the end of the calendar year are eligible to take advantage of the Global Shutdown.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees