Associate , Operations Health and Safety

Position Overview

The EHS Associate 2 role is a highly visible, trusted partner to Operations—present at the Gemba, quick to support, and committed to enabling safe, high-quality work. In this role, you will respond to day-to-day questions, assist with incident investigations, and risk assessments, support GEMBA walks and audits, and help teams integrate EHS into standard work. Your focus is to listen, coach, and collaborate so that every colleague can do their best work safely, every shift.

FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof.

We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together!

Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit:

• Serve as the EHS point of contact on the shop floor; respond promptly to questions from process stakeholders and provide practical guidance in real time.
• Participate in targeted GEMBA walks to observe work as performed, listen to risks or pain points, and escalates hazards quickly with a people-first mindset.

• Partner with manufacturing and support teams to align with OSHA, NFPA, ANSI, biosafety, potent compound controls, and applicable cGMP expectations.
• Support readiness for internal/external audits and inspections; help manage responses and timely closure of observations and corrective actions.

• Plan and conduct workplace inspections, GEMBA observations, industrial hygiene monitoring, and exposure assessments.
• Recommend and help implement engineering/administrative controls and PPE strategies; verify effectiveness at the point of use.
• Lead cross-functional area risk assessments to identify workplace hazards, evaluate existing safeguards, recommend controls, document and track corrective actions, and verify control effectiveness.

• Facilitate or assist with incident and near-miss reporting, investigation, root cause analysis (e.g., 5-Whys), and CAPA development.
• Track completion and effectiveness of corrective actions; share learnings across shifts to prevent recurrence.

• Develop and deliver H&S training and competency programs tailored to operations workflows; ensure training records meet compliance expectations.
• Deliver EHS and Sustainability New Hire Orientation; reinforce safe behaviors with simple, visual job aids and toolbox talks.
• Mentor EHS associates or colleagues; promote a speak‑up culture and psychological safety.

• Support site EHS programs (e.g., Lockout/Tagout, Hazard Communication, Confined Space, Machine Guarding,Ergonomics, Waste Management).
• Execute routine audits/inspections, field verifications, and coaching tied to these programs; assist with SDSmanagement, chemical inventory, and waste labeling.

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