Senior EHS Specialist - Bristol Myers Squibb

$82,000 - $102,000/Yr

University Of Washington School Of Public Health - Bothell, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Bothell, WA

About the position

The Senior EHS Specialist at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) in Bothell, WA, is responsible for supporting the company's environmental, health, safety, and sustainability initiatives. This role involves managing site environmental programs, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering a proactive EHS culture within the facility. The specialist will collaborate across departments to drive improvements and maintain documentation related to EHS practices.

Responsibilities

• Identify, manage and assess risks pertaining to air, water, waste and soil.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental and sustainability laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.
• Develop and implement new environmental programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.
• Prepare and maintain environmental reports, records, monitoring data and plans as required by regulation or company requirements.
• Act as the point of contact for environmental regulatory agencies and lead agency inspections or audits.
• Manage communications and preparation/distribution of EHS communications.
• Develop, create, and manage site platforms, databases, and SharePoint for documentation of procedures, forms, SOPs, investigations, reporting, inspections, action items, communications, and other management system platforms.
• Develop, create, maintain, and distribute EHS reports and records as assigned.
• Manage the environmental training process for the site, including development of new and revised training, accurately assigning training based on guidelines, and supporting training records requests.
• Perform and direct small spill cleanup activities for Hazardous, Non-Hazardous or Biohazardous materials.
• Collaborate proactively across all functional departments at site and above-site.
• Participate in EHS operational and tier discussions, EHS committees and teams; and EHS self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
• Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalate concerns, resource constraints, or needs with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.
• Conduct chemical and biological risk assessments for processes and equipment as needed.
• Conduct root cause analysis for injury/incident investigations and track corrective actions to completion.
• Challenge the status quo and bring new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and processes.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in either an environmental discipline, chemistry or the biological sciences.
• Minimum of two (2) to four (4) plus years of EHS experience in a laboratory or manufacturing facility.
• Environmental experience including hazardous waste, biologic waste, wastewater, storm water, SPCC, DOT hazardous material shipping, air emissions, GHG, permitting, remediation and sustainability.
• Knowledge of EPA environmental regulations related to pollution prevention; Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation & Recovery Act, FIFRA, CERCLA, EPCRA, TSCA, SPCC.
• 24-40 Hr. HAZWOPER training preferred.
• Experience working in laboratory and manufacturing environment, with knowledge of GMP practices and procedures.
• Experience working in a BSL-2 environment and understanding of biosafety practices.
• Proficient with Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point).
• Experience with learning systems database (e.g., Intelex, Success Factors, etc.) preferred.
• Previous experience developing program and plans related to federal and state environmental and transportation regulations.
• Ability to take initiative and adapt to frequently changing priorities simultaneously.
• Experience handling confidential information and sensitive issues in a diplomatic manner.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset that takes a proactive, solution-oriented approach to identifying issues and developing innovative and effective solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proclivity for partnership and collaboration.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with learning systems database (e.g., Intelex, Success Factors, etc.) preferred.
• 24-40 Hr. HAZWOPER training preferred.