Environmental Health Safety Specialist
Listed on 2026-07-27
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Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer, Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Engineer, Quality Engineering
The Spear Group Full-Time Opportunity with Corporate Benefits
Position:
EHS Project Support Specialist -- Manufacturing Capital Projects
Location:
Carteret, NJ Area
Position Summary:
The Spear Group has an exciting career opportunity for a experienced Owner’s Side EHS Professional with project support experience to provide expert safety professional support for various pharmaceutical facility capital projects on our client’s NJ campus encompassing pharma processing and manufacturing operations.
Our top-tier pharma/biopharma client has multiple site-level capital projects underway or being initiated at their NJ facility by owner/stakeholder pharma organizational leaders. These capital projects require Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) support for the planning, design and execution of the project.
Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for participating in various activities as the project progresses through different stages, including but not limited to:
- Understanding Research Lab operations and needs as end-users of the facility. Other customers, such as manufacturing or general site staff may also be end-user operations for some projects.
- Providing EHS guidance rooted national, state and local regulations as well as Company requirements.
- Learn/follow all Owner Safety, Health, Environmental, GMP and regulatory requirements (as required by task).
- Performing risk assessments (e.g., IH or biosafety risk with assistance of Owner professional, ergonomic risk, machine guarding, equipment pre-start-up reviews, etc.) (Owner tools will be provided to support risk assessments performed.)Prepare reports of assessments and evaluations, including findings and recommended solutions.
- Involving site EHS staff, particularly environmental and loss prevention SMEs (for example), and technical design engineering staff, to work together to identify solutions to address regulatory and Company requirements.
- Participate as a team member in process hazard analysis and life safety and loss prevention reviews.
- Review processes, facilities, procedures, project documents and management of change documents to assure conformance to recognized EHS regulations, standards and guidelines.
- Identify and address areas of concern regarding potential liabilities and risk.
- Work with project stakeholders to consider solution options, gain alignment and ensure on-time action completion.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously will be required.
- Provide project status updates in consumable formats weekly and as needed/requested.
- Perform necessary administrative duties to ensure maintenance of records, reports, and associated tasks.
- Work with minimum supervision and exercise independent judgment in the daily performance of their duties
- Regularly analyze and communicate data and project status to client and team to achieve project goals.
- Develop communication materials and presentations to all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills as well as critical and innovative thinking.
- Manage several complex work streams with multiple stakeholders at one time.
- Maintain excellent analytical abilities and solid base in engineering fundamentals.
- Possess strong interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to be highly organized with strong analytical skills.
- Possess the strong ability to influence without a direct line of authority.
- Possess a customer service mindset.
- Demonstrated ability to lead meetings with diverse set of project collaborative stakeholders and project delivery customers.
Required Skills, Experience, and
Education:
- B.S. in Safety, Environment, Engineering or a related science discipline required.
- Minimum 8 years of experience.
- Strong Microsoft 365 experience, including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook. Knowledge on how to use Microsoft Teams and Cisco Jabber a plus.
- Experience with the above responsibilities and skill sets and similar manufacturing operations project support experience:
* Experience developing communication materials and presentations to all levels of
the organization.
* Demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills as well as critical and innovative
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