Environmental Health Safety Specialist

The Spear Group Full-Time Opportunity with Corporate Benefits

Position:

EHS Project Support Specialist -- Manufacturing Capital Projects

Location:

Carteret, NJ Area

Position Summary:

The Spear Group has an exciting career opportunity for an experienced Owner’s Side EHS Professional with project support experience to provide expert safety professional support for various pharmaceutical facility capital projects on our client’s NJ campus encompassing pharma processing and manufacturing operations.

Our top-tier pharma/biopharma client has multiple site-level capital projects underway or being initiated at their NJ facility by owner/stakeholder pharma organizational leaders. These capital projects require Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) support for the planning, design and execution of the project.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding Research Lab operations and needs as end-users of the facility. Other customers, such as manufacturing or general site staff may also be end-user operations for some projects.
• Providing EHS guidance rooted national, state and local regulations as well as Company requirements.
• Learn/follow all Owner Safety, Health, Environmental, GMP and regulatory requirements (as required by task).
• Performing risk assessments (e.g., IH or biosafety risk with assistance of Owner professional, ergonomic risk, machine guarding, equipment pre-start-up reviews, etc.) (Owner tools will be provided to support risk assessments performed.)Prepare reports of assessments and evaluations, including findings and recommended solutions.
• Involving site EHS staff, particularly environmental and loss prevention SMEs (for example), and technical design engineering staff, to work together to identify solutions to address regulatory and Company requirements.
• Participate as a team member in process hazard analysis and life safety and loss prevention reviews.
• Review processes, facilities, procedures, project documents and management of change documents to assure conformance to recognized EHS regulations, standards and guidelines.
• Identify and address areas of concern regarding potential liabilities and risk.
• Work with project stakeholders to consider solution options, gain alignment and ensure on-time action completion.
• Manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously will be required.
• Provide project status updates in consumable formats weekly and as needed/requested.
• Perform necessary administrative duties to ensure maintenance of records, reports, and associated tasks.
• Work with minimum supervision and exercise independent judgment in the daily performance of their duties
• Regularly analyze and communicate data and project status to client and team to achieve project goals.
• Develop communication materials and presentations to all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills as well as critical and innovative thinking.
• Manage several complex work streams with multiple stakeholders at one time.
• Maintain excellent analytical abilities and solid base in engineering fundamentals.
• Possess strong interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to be highly organized with strong analytical skills.
• Possess the strong ability to influence without a direct line of authority.
• Possess a customer service mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to lead meetings with diverse set of project collaborative stakeholders and project delivery customers.

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

• B.S. in Safety, Environment, Engineering or a related science discipline required.
• Minimum 8 years of experience.
• Strong Microsoft 365 experience, including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook. Knowledge on how to use Microsoft Teams and Cisco Jabber a plus.
• Experience with the above responsibilities and skill sets and similar manufacturing operations project support experience:

* Experience developing communication materials and presentations to all levels of

the organization.

* Demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills as well as critical and innovative

thinking.

*Experience managing several complex work streams with multiple stakeholders at

one time.

*Possess excellent analytical abilities and solid base in engineering fundamentals.

*Possess strong interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills.

*Proven ability to be highly organized with strong analytical skills.

*Possess the experience and skill set to have the strong ability to influence without a

direct line of authority.

*Possess a customer service mindset.

Compensation based on relevant experience

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Spear Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employers. All personnel actions are affected without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected status pursuant to law. As a responsible organization, we resolutely support the concept and practice of Equal Employment Opportunity. We uphold federal, state, and local civil rights laws and work to ensure that all of our personnel actions and policies are in compliance. Additionally, we recognize and value the importance and diversity of our work force and support its various cultures. The Companies are dedicated to fostering an environment that respects the dignity, rights and contributions of our employees.