Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety

Moderna • Norwood, MA

9d • $142,500 - $256,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director, Global EHS will serve as a key implementation and site-support resource within Moderna’s Corporate EHS organization. This role will support the development, deployment, and standardization of global EHS programs, standards, and initiatives across Moderna’s manufacturing, laboratory, and operational sites, while also providing direct onsite EHS support at the Norwood campus. In this role, you will work closely with Corporate EHS leaders, site EHS teams, and cross-functional business partners to translate global EHS strategy into practical, effective, and sustainable site-level execution. You will help ensure that global EHS programs are not only developed, but successfully implemented, embedded, measured, and continuously improved across the network.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Life Sciences, or a related technical discipline required.
• Significant EHS experience in a manufacturing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, laboratory, life sciences, or similarly regulated technical environment.
• Experience supporting or implementing EHS programs across multiple sites, regions, or business units.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement EHS programs, standards, procedures, tools, training materials, and governance processes that are practical, scalable, and sustainable.
• Strong technical understanding of core EHS disciplines, which may include occupational safety, environmental compliance, industrial hygiene, biosafety, hazardous materials, hazardous waste, process safety, contractor safety, emergency preparedness, ergonomics, machine safety, LOTO, confined space, fall protection, and incident investigation.
• Working knowledge of EHS regulatory frameworks and management system principles, including ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.
• Ability to interpret regulatory, corporate, and industry requirements and convert them into clear site-level expectations, implementation plans, and actionable deliverables.
• Strong project management and execution skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, define scope, align stakeholders, track actions, escalate barriers, and drive work to completion.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and work effectively with site leaders, technical teams, frontline employees, corporate functions, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience conducting or supporting risk assessments, gap assessments, audits, inspections, incident investigations, corrective actions, and management reviews.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes, simplify complex issues, develop practical solutions, and support consistent execution across diverse operating environments.
• Ability to balance global standardization with local implementation needs, including regional regulatory requirements, site maturity, operational complexity, and business priorities.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to write clear standards and guidance documents, create implementation tools, deliver training, and communicate technical expectations to non-EHS audiences.
• Comfortable working onsite in Norwood and serving as both a local site-support resource and a corporate EHS implementation partner for global initiatives.
• Ability to travel periodically to support site implementation, audits, assessments, program deployment, or operational readiness activities across Moderna’s global network.
• Experience in a GxP, GMP, biopharmaceutical, or highly regulated manufacturing environment preferred.
• Demonstrated commitment to proactive risk reduction, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and building strong, sustainable EHS culture.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled tools to improve EHS program execution, including development of practical use cases, prompt design, workflow creation, knowledge management, inspection readiness, event learning, risk assessment support, and generation of scalable implementation materials.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy, completeness, usability, and alignment with regulatory, corporate, and site-specific EHS requirements, with sound judgment to ensure AI is used responsibly as a decision-support tool rather than a substitute for technical expertise.
• Experience partnering with Digital, IT, Data Analytics, Quality, Manufacturing, and site stakeholders to translate EHS needs into AI-enabled solutions, define functional requirements, support testing and adoption, and embed tools into routine EHS and business processes.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Global or multi-site EHS experience strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting management system implementation, certification, or sustainment preferred.
• Professional certification such as CSP, CIH, CHMM, ASP, NEBOSH, or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, implementation, and sustainment of global EHS initiatives, programs, standards, procedures, tools, and governance processes across Moderna’s global site network.
• Partner with Corporate EHS leaders to translate global EHS strategy, regulatory expectations, and business needs into practical implementation plans, tools, training materials, and site-ready solutions.
• Serve as a tactical deployment leader for global EHS programs, helping sites understand requirements, assess gaps, define implementation actions, and execute against agreed timelines.
• Provide onsite EHS support to the Norwood campus, including technical guidance, program implementation support, risk assessment, incident/event support, inspection readiness, and coaching for site stakeholders.
• Act as a subject matter expert on assigned EHS topics, providing practical guidance to site teams and business partners on risk management, regulatory compliance, EHS program expectations, and implementation requirements.
• Support the standardization of EHS programs and ways of working across sites, helping establish consistent expectations, tools, metrics, and governance while allowing for appropriate local regulatory and operational adaptation.
• Lead or support the creation of corporate EHS standards, procedures, work instructions, guidance documents, templates, training content, and implementation toolkits.
• Partner with site EHS teams to drive implementation of corporate EHS requirements, including gap assessments, action planning, performance tracking, corrective actions, and escalation of barriers or overdue deliverables.
• Support global EHS performance improvement by identifying trends, recurring gaps, implementation challenges, and opportunities to simplify, standardize, or strengthen existing programs.
• Provide EHS support for global and site-level operational initiatives, including management of change, capital projects, new process introductions, technology transfers, audit readiness, regulatory readiness, and operational risk reduction activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Manufacturing, Quality, Facilities and Engineering, Technical Development, MS&T, Supply Chain, Capital Projects, and site leadership to ensure EHS requirements are effectively integrated into business processes.
• Support development and deployment of EHS metrics, dashboards, governance routines, and management review content to monitor implementation progress, program effectiveness, and risk reduction outcomes.
• Coach and influence site stakeholders, frontline leaders, and functional partners to strengthen EHS ownership, improve risk recognition, and embed EHS expectations into daily operations.
• Participate in internal audits, regulatory inspections, management system activities, and program reviews, supporting action closure and continuous improvement.
• Help build scalable EHS solutions that are globally consistent, operationally practical, and aligned with Moderna’s evolving business, manufacturing, laboratory, and site expansion needs.
• Experience using or implementing digital, data, automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve EHS program performance, compliance management, risk assessment, event learning, inspections, training, or operational decision-making.
• Ability to partner with technical, digital, and business teams to define EHS AI use cases, translate functional requirements into practical workflows, evaluate outputs for accuracy and usability, and support responsible adoption across diverse site environments.

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support
• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savings and investments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level