Environmental, Health and Safety Senior Specialist
Acton, MA 
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Environmental, Health and Safety Senior Specialist
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Posted
24 June 2024
Location
Acton, MA
Job type
Permanent
Reference
925004
Job description

Job Title: Environmental, Health, and Safety Senior Specialist
Work Location: Devens, MA
Duration: 12 months

(EHS Senior Specialist)
Onsite role-Local candidates only please
Work Schedule: please refer to the attached work schedule as this position will support the B1 shift working 8AM - 8PM EST

Position Summary
This position is responsible for supporting the administration of various EHS programs and initiatives. This includes overseeing Contractor Safety programs, managing Safe Work Permits, and supporting the training of programs such as confined space entry, lockout tagout, and work at height. This supplemental role ensures compliance with environmental, safety, medical surveillance, and sustainability laws and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels. The position will also involve participation in self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, hazard assessments, and audits. Overall, this position plays a crucial role in supporting the site EHS team and promoting a safe and compliant work environment.

Key Responsibilities
* Ensures compliance with Federal, State, and Local environmental, safety, medical surveillance and sustainability
laws, regulations, codes, rules, and consensus guides.
* Develop and implement new EHS programs, policies, and procedures and update and improve existing ones.
* Develop, create, maintain, and distribute EHS reports, and records as assigned.
* Create and maintain a systemic process to ensure workflow timelines for EHS events and action plans are adhered
to including mechanisms for EHS performance and trend reports.
* Using a client representation model, support day-to-day activities in one or more operational functions across the
Devens campus. This may include Commercial and/or Clinical drug substance manufacturing, support of Site
Engineering (Maintenance and Metrology activities), Supply Chain/Warehouse, Laboratories (Quality Control and
Process Development), or Cell Therapy Manufacturing.
* Key contact for internal customers, researchers, facilities, management, and other cross functional groups, building
strong relationships by handling EHS inquiries.
* Participate in and show leadership in an EHS culture at the site that partners with operational teams to ensure all
are accountable for EHS culture and performance, modeling what good looks like.
* Proactively collaborates at site and above-site levels.
* Support the training program by assisting in the development and delivery of EHS committees and teams; and EHS
self-assessments, inspections, GEMBAs, and audits.
* Perform risk and hazard assessments throughout the campus. This includes involvement in PHAs for Process
Safety.
* Challenges the status quo and brings new approaches to continually improve the effectiveness of workflows and
processes (Learn and apply new concepts).
* Review and ensure accurate and complete resolution of issues as they arise and escalate concerns, resource
constraints, needs, with urgency to appropriate leaders in the organization.

Qualifications & Experience

* Required B.S. Degree in environmental studies, health & safety, science or engineering
* Minimum 4 - 6 years of prior EHS Experience
* Proficient with MS Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point)
* Minimum 4 years experience with incidents and/or learning systems databases (e.g., Enablon, Success Factors,
etc.)
* Minimum 4 years experience related to the EHS federal and state regulations (EPA, MassDEP, OSHA, etc.)
* Ability to take initiative and adapt to frequently changing priorities simultaneously and think creatively, critically,
and strategically to solve problems in a complex environment with urgency, agility, and calm.
* Prioritizes work and thinks independently, analyzes, and solves complex problems with excellent judgement,
quality, and detail in an urgent manner.
* Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset that take a proactive, solution oriented approach to identifying
issues and developing innovative and effective solutions to improve operations.
* Strong decision-making capability to guide assigned projects to successful conclusions
* Experience handling confidential information and sensitive issues in a diplomatic manner to ensure integrity and
confidentiality.
* Excellent transparent verbal and written communication skills
* Strong interpersonal skills with a proclivity for partnership and collaboration with peers, all levels of management,
cross-functional teams at site and EHS above site teams.

Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.

Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.


Digital Intelligence Systems, LLC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or veteran status.

 

Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
4 to 6 years
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