EHS Site Lead

Job Overview:

Responsible for leading the environmental, health and safety programs for the GSK R&D Cambridge Park Drive Site.   This includes both research and development laboratories, vaccine research laboratories and facility operations. 

This is a site-based role at our Cambridge Park Drive location with 5 days on-site required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead delivery for EHSS R&D programs and services in the Cambridge Park R&D site.

• Act as the Duty Holder for High Severity Risk programs to include Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Environmental.

• Oversees compliance with legal requirements affecting EHS programs

• Working effectively with the EHS professionals on the Pharma R&D team to deliver efficient and consistent programs to all groups within R&D.

• Provide leadership as active member of the site Cambridge Park Drive Council and through collaboration with the Principal Duty Holder to ensure EHS risk are known, assessed, and well managed.

• Provide day to day support as part of a team to deliver first line advice, training, emergency response, risk assessment, incident investigation, input to local projects and processes to the site. 

• Act as the Site Engineering Services business partner to provide support to Capital and Site Minor Works projects, Change Controls, Impact Assessments and EHS Asset reviews

• To ensure the interests of R&D are represented and protected, both within and external to GSK. 

• To maintain comprehensive external and cross business awareness and lead and participate in significant cross company initiatives.

• Provide Independent Business Monitoring Program leadership and support to R&D across the region and in conjunction with the broader R&D EHS team. 

• Manage regulatory visits both announced and unannounced to the site

Accountability:

• Accountable for alerting management to legislative development in the areas Health, Safety and Industrial Hygiene which could impact operations

• Represent the interests of GSK in key external policy forums.

• Champion the interests of stakeholders within the business in GSK EHS policy and strategy development.

Complexity:

• Shaping change in the external environment is a key job factor.  Ability to manage complexity and uncertainty in rapidly changing situations is required.  Autonomous decision making is often essential.

• The breadth and number of activities directed by this position necessitates strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage tasks concurrently.  Many of these tasks are initiated by the job holder; others come from internal customers and other stakeholders external to GSK. Deadlines are negotiable, but the job holder is required to make independent decisions as necessary.

• Influencing and negotiation required to ensure appropriate resourcing and commitment from other divisional managers.

• Position interfaces on a regular basis with all GSK business sectors.

Specialised Knowledge:

• Environment, Health, and Safety expertise.

Why you?

Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental, Health and Safety Management, Chemistry or Biology.

• 10+ years of experience in managing Environmental, Health and Safety Programs. 

• Leadership experience to influence senior managers and staff in a demanding and rapidly evolving legislative environment.

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: 

• CSP Preferred

• Pharmaceutical Industry experience

• Good interpersonal, presentational and persuasive skills so as to successfully interact with managers at all levels and the ability to manage complex internal relations on a multi-site and international basis.

• Good knowledge of the business and a good networker.

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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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