Material Safety Lead

Roche • Indianapolis, IN

1d • $104,000 - $193,100 • Onsite

About The Position

The Material Safety Lead provides strategic, enterprise-level leadership to ensure the safe procurement, handling, inventory control, and lifecycle management of Roche's clinical diagnostics portfolio and associated laboratory reagents within a warehouse environment. This position champions an agile and highly collaborative approach, focusing on strategic partnership and visibility with stakeholders like Engineering, SHE, and Business Insights to design code-compliant storage infrastructure. The role involves owning the warehouse's hazard containment roadmap, presenting predictive risk models and inventory trends, and cultivating a proactive safety culture. It also includes designing and governing safety architectures, enforcing structural changes or inventory caps (MAQs) as required by code, and optimizing the high-velocity diagnostic supply chain while maintaining strict regulatory compliance. Upon identifying systemic problems, the lead will implement permanent corrective actions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Chemistry, Industrial Hygiene, or a related clinical/scientific discipline.
• 5-7 years of progressive environmental health and safety or process engineering leadership with documented success spanning both analytical laboratory environments and high-density warehouse storage operations.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM)
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO).
• Advanced, demonstrable command of NFPA 30 (Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code) and NFPA 400 (Hazardous Materials Code) within industrial facility architectures.
• Robust understanding of Good Distribution Practices (GDP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) as they apply to medical-grade, climate-controlled environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a compelling safety vision that directly links rigorous hazardous and corrosive material storage to clinical product integrity and uninterrupted patient care.
• Actively monitor and anticipate shifts in global, national, and local environmental, chemical, and building safety frameworks (OSHA, EPA, NFPA) to engineer resilient, future-proof facility controls.
• Partner with key stakeholders to design and implement warehouse storage infrastructures that mitigate chemical reactivity.
• Develop matrix-based safety grids to optimize storage configurations.
• Establish and audit baseline safe storage protocols for non-hazardous and high-density inventory, ensuring structural integrity through proper rack load distribution, pallet overhang compliance, and the strict maintenance of unobstructed longitudinal and transverse flue spaces.
• Collaborate with Data Analytics to architect predictive inventory modeling systems, monitoring total storage volumes against local fire code Maximum Allowable Quantities (MAQs).
• Develop work instructions and education tools to create awareness of best-in-class storage practices for materials.
• Serve as the liaison between Warehouse Logistics, Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Corporate SHE networks to cultivate a unified, site-wide culture of safety.
• Lead the technical evaluation and risk mitigation strategies required during the integration of new storage automation, digital Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), or shifting product portfolio demands.
• Develop and maintain a technical understanding of cold-chain safety boundaries and cryogenic risks to ensure facility storage conditions consistently preserve diagnostic efficacy.
• Utilize enterprise data systems or business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, SAP, PowerBI) to track leading safety indicators and model warehouse storage inventory limits.

Benefits

• A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance, as well as participation in a long-term incentive program.
• This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

What This Job Offers

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