EHS Lead
Shanbally, Ringaskiddy, Cork
Hybrid role ( 4 days per week on site)
Closing date: Wednesday 3rd December ****
BioMarin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases.
We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children.
These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options.
BioMarin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.
Reporting to the EHS Senior Manager, the primary role of the EHS Lead is to manage the daily operations; coordinating, influencing resources, establishing priorities, point of escalation for the team and ensuring schedule and deadlines are met.
EHS Lead will lead the team through successful stakeholder engagement, team prioritisation, process improvements and regulatory inspections.
The EHS lead will act as delegate to the Senior Manager of EHS where required.
It is expected the EHS Lead will mature the high-performing, team-based organization, where colleagues are flexible, multi-skilled and empowered to make decisions.
A high level of initiative, energy and motivation are key role requirements, as well as organisational and stakeholder management skills.
Main areas of responsibility
Lead and support the EHS team to ensure delivery of the production schedule.
Improve the safety culture throughout the site, embedding the principle programs elements of behavioural based safety (CARE Program).
Support and partner closely with all Shanbally site operations as well as US counterparts and other colleagues.
Strong audit readiness mindset and leadership skills.
Represent the EHS group as necessary at critical meetings.
Train and coach colleagues in processing, operational excellence, team interactions and delivering results.
Responsible for reporting on key performance indicators on safety, environmental and occupational health management systems.
Ensuring compliance with site licences.
Develop and demonstrate an active approach to continual improvement quality, safety, industrial hygiene, environmental and all regulatory compliance.
Responsible for ensuring training records and training plans are in place and up to date for all team members.
Lead safety and environmental investigations and contribute to robust CAPA actions.
Instil the use of Right First Time (six-sigma), root cause analysis and lean manufacturing practices leading to operational excellence.
Support the sites emergency management and emergency response programmes, leading change and improvement on these critical site programmes.
Education
Degree in science/engineering, operations management or industrial engineering or equivalent experience in a GMP environment is preferred.
Experience
Minimum of 7 years experience in EHS preferably in Biotech, Pharma or Medical Device industries.
Past experience and demonstrated ability to successfully influence team performance in a high-performance team is strongly preferred.
Track record of embedding a strong safety culture with experience of safety and environmental management experience.
Demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to interact across cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated ability to train and coach colleagues in processing, operational excellence, team interactions and delivering results.
Experience with regulatory inspections and direct interaction with regulatory inspectors.
Highly developed organisational and leadership skills.
Process development and/or technology transfer experience preferred.
The EHS lead will partner closely with all departments on site, US EHS counterparts, global operations team leadership and other colleagues.
The role may require the successful candidate to respond to calls to support activities out of hours and process escalations as applicable.
A relevant time-served apprenticeship or third level qualification in Engineering with 7+ years' experience in a GMP environment, preferably Biopharmaceuticals or equivalent industry.
Demonstrated skills of leadership, influence and stakeholder management are desirable.
Work cross functionally to deliver compliant, reliable, efficient and sustainable asset care for internal and external customers or as part of a multidisciplinary project team.
Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive or a limitation of the duties of the position.
It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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