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The primary focus of this role is to support the EOHSS programs at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) as the Senior Specialist of EOHSS for the Summit facility within the Department of Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety and Sustainability (EOHSS). As the Senior Specialist, you will play an active role in supporting the company’s environmental, occupational health, safety, and sustainability (EOHSS) efforts within the Summit facility to drive long-term company and stakeholder value.

The individual in this role will be responsible for developing, planning, and executing EOHSS programs, policies, procedures, and training to ensure a safe, healthy, and environmentally compliant facility in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.

Please note: This is a second shift position. Scheduled hours will be Monday - Friday. 2:00pm ET - 10:30pm ET.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Ensures compliance with federal, state and local environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.

• Works directly with Operations and serves as the lead regarding general safety, chemical hygiene, biosafety and environmental management.

• Develop and implement new EOHSS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing programs as well as manage site EOHSS platforms, databases, and SharePoint for documentation of procedures, forms, SOPs, investigations, reporting, inspections, action items, in line with quality and EOHSS requirements.

• Manage a wide range of EOHSS communications, including preparation and distribution.

• Create and maintain a systemic process to ensure workflow timelines for EOHSS events and action plans are adhered to including mechanisms for EOHSS performance and trend reports.

• Manage the EOHSS training process for the site including working with trainers to develop new and revised training, accurately assigning training based on guidelines, and supporting training records requests.

• Executes, tracks, and manages POs, check requests, financial reports, expenses, correspondences, meetings.

• Key contact for internal customers, researchers, facilities, management, and other cross functional groups, building strong relationships by handling EHS inquiries.

• Lead the site EOHSS inspection program & site safety committee.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree safety, industrial hygiene, biosafety, environment, or other related field.

• Minimum of two (2) to four (4) years experience working within a safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, or environmental department in a manufacturing or laboratory environment.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience working with federal state and local EOHSS regulatory requirements.

• Prior EHS Incident investigation experience required.

• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset that takes a proactive, solution-oriented approach to identifying issues and developing innovative and effective solutions to improve operations.

• Experience handling confidential information and sensitive issues in a diplomatic manner to ensure integrity and confidentiality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with incident and/or learning systems database (e.g., Enablon, Success Factors, ComplianceWire, etc.) preferred

• Pharmaceutical experience desired.

• Demonstrated experience working as a member of a biosafety committee or leading a biosafety program. Prior Biosafety Officer experience desired.

Working Conditions

• Working days: This is a second shift position. Scheduled hours will be Monday - Friday. 2:00pm ET - 10:30pm ET.

• Typical daily activities are within the office environment.

• This role will be responsible for working within the cleanroom manufacturing facilities, laboratories and outdoors at times.

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On-site Protocol
Physical presence at the BMS worksite or physical presence in the field is a necessary job function of this role, which the Company deems critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, employee well-being and engagement, and it enhances the Company culture.

COVID-19 Information
To protect the safety of our workforce, customers, patients and communities, the policy of the Company requires all employees and workers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they have received an exception based on an approved request for a medical or religious reasonable accommodation. Therefore, all BMS applicants seeking a role located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico must confirm that they have already received or are willing to receive the full COVID-19 vaccination by their start date as a qualification of the role and condition of employment. This requirement is subject to state and local law restrictions and may not be applicable to employees working in certain jurisdictions such as Montana. This requirement is also subject to discussions with collective bargaining representatives in the U.S.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

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