Environment, Health and Safety Manager

BioPhase Solutions specializes in recruiting top talented professionals for Southern California's Scientific community. We are currently looking for a US Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Management System Manager for a manufacturing company in the Los Angeles area. Salary: $90k-110k per year Base pay range $90,000.00/yr - $110,000.00/yr Duties and Responsibilities: Assists the US Head of EHS in setting up and monitoring the sites’ Environmental Health and Safety policy. Advise and enable site management in relation to Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental protection to ensure that legal and corporate EHS requirements are met or exceeded. Work with sites’ management to define and achieve EHS and business goals. Manages the general organization of the environmental health and safety of the site in agreement with the US Head of EHS. Monitors Environmental, Health & Safety actions, sets priorities and coordinates regular follow-up meetings. Proposals for required Environmental, Health & Safety-related investments. Provides regulatory and technological monitoring for Environmental, Health & Safety. Maintains the Environmental Health & Safety part of the internal regulations. Ensures the drafting and follow-up of health & safety documents. In charge of environmental health & safety training and awareness program: Defined and deploys the health & safety training and awareness program for all functions or tasks represented on Sites. Establish and maintain an EHS management system for environmental, health & safety programs, documentation and reporting environmental, health & safety related site KPI’s. Management and organization of environmental, health & safety training modules. Responsible for internal and external health & safety audits, response to customer EHS questionnaires intervenes during customer visits on EHS. Assists the US Head of EHS to ensure staff safety: Tracking internal, external, client audits and accidents; incidents: Coordination and monitoring of investigations and analyses (root cause & corrective action). Coordination and follow-up of corrective actions. Coordinate and communicate feedback from audits, meetings and investigations. Keep a close eye on EHS best practices on the site: Establish a safety culture of safe working practices for both employees and contracting staff on site. Regular visits to work areas, ensures that the rules in force are understood and respected. Security meeting moderator. Coordination and implementation of internal/external EHS- audits. Ensures the compliance of the facilities and informs workers about the risks associated with new equipment via the single document in collaboration with managers. Offers improvements to the workstations, ergonomics and EHS risks. Tracking unusual, critical or abnormal operations: Conduct investigations into accidents to determine causes and prevent re-occurrence. Conduct regular internal and external (where necessary) audits to ensure compliance – provide management systems to monitor performance and ensure corrective actions are in place in a timely manner. EHS risk assessment on change control. Performs risk analyses on unusual, critical or abnormal operation. Securing and monitoring unusual, critical or abnormal operations. Analysis of workstations. Track corrective actions necessary from internal/external and client audit findings with CAPA system. Organization & team management: Deployment of planning in departments. Hiring management and/or consultants. Maintain familiarity with relevant EHS legislation, assess and contribute to relevant consultative documents. Ensure necessary permits and licenses to operate obtained are in compliance to achieve business goals. Requirements: 5+ years of experience as a EHS Professional in a technical process environment preferably in the Pharmaceutical/chemical field. Demonstrable experience of leading the implementation and development of EHS programs. Demonstrate experience with California EHS regulations. Experience with EHS management system such as ISO14001 & ISO 45001. Collaborative approach to resolving issues with other departments. Track record of implementation of safety policy across company / sites. Ability to intuitively 'read' situations analyze problems effectively and react appropriately when dealing with a broad range of risk scenarios. Strong influencing skills with an ability to lead the development of EHS programs across sites. Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Administrative, Manufacturing, and Training Industries Staffing and Recruiting, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, and Biotechnology Research #J-18808-Ljbffr