Senior Manager, Construction Contractor Safety

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

1d • $150,353 - $203,419

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. Senior Manager, Construction Contractor Safety. What you will do. Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you under minimal direction, support the implementation, governance, standards, training, and performance processes that comprise the Amgen Construction Contractor Safety Program. The role provides technical leadership across capital projects, promotes consistent contractor and subcontractor compliance, and partners with project leaders, EHS, engineering, and external companies to manage complex construction safety risks.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related EHS discipline experience
• Master's degree and 6 years of Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related EHS discipline experience
• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related EHS discipline experience
• Associate's degree and 10 years of Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related EHS discipline experience
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related EHS discipline experience
• Minimum of 2 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Nice To Haves

• 10 or more years of construction safety experience supporting large capital projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of safety regulations and construction technical standards, principles, and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex safety problems and develop practical, compliant solutions.
• Ability to work independently under minimal direction and determine an appropriate approach to assigned responsibilities.
• Ability to travel approximately 50%, including regional, domestic, or international travel based on role location and business needs.
• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health and Safety, Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related EHS discipline.
• Experience managing construction safety in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry.
• Experience supporting contractor safety governance across multiple capital projects, sites, or regions.
• Experience using technology and data analytics to strengthen construction safety performance.
• Professional safety certification such as CSP, CIH or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of construction contractor safety program elements, modules, systems, standards, and training.
• Participate as a member of capital project leadership teams and advise management on project safety performance, priorities, operations, and scheduling considerations.
• Ensure effective governance processes for tracking safety performance across capital projects through the collection, review, and interpretation of meaningful metrics.
• Use safety metrics and performance trends to recommend and implement changes that refocus safety efforts and improve outcomes.
• Identify and implement appropriate technology solutions, including emerging tools such as artificial intelligence, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of construction safety management.
• Monitor contractor and subcontractor compliance with applicable regional safety regulations, construction and general industry safety standards, and company requirements.
• Manage EHS prequalification and, where applicable, requalification of design and construction contractors and subcontractors by confirming adequate training, knowledge, experience, and resources to meet their EHS obligations.
• Review contractor project-specific safety plans and verify that appropriate systems and resources are in place to support safe project execution.
• Ensure contractor and subcontractor orientation and training are provided to impacted personnel and ensure project engineers and managers receive training on company expectations for construction safety management.
• Coordinate with appointed project supervisors and other designated safety roles, providing the information and cooperation necessary for them to fulfill their health and safety obligations.
• Manage designated construction safety service-provider or project-supervisor contracts, as applicable to the site or region.
• Ensure adequate systems and resources are available to review and approve construction activity risk assessments and method statements, including STAs, and JHAs, in a timely and compliant manner.
• Facilitate safety performance reviews, field inspections, and audits, and ensure identified non-conformances are documented, communicated, tracked, and addressed.
• Monitor and prioritize the safety agenda based on project schedules, project load, risk profile, and emerging conditions.
• Compile, analyze, and report safety statistics and performance information to management as required.
• Participate in incident investigations, as necessary, and support the communication of root cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Escalate Incidents based on the incident management SOP.

Benefits

• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed