Senior Specialist Safety & Environment

Reporting to the Associate Director, Safety & Environment, the Senior Specialist provides technical and program leadership for High Risk Work and Machinery Safety across West Point, North Wales, and Springhouse Innovation Park, supporting Vaccines Manufacturing, Research & Development, and site support functions. The role serves as a trusted subject matter expert and partners with operations, engineering, maintenance and other various organizations to prevent serious injuries and operational events.

This individual translates regulatory, consensus-standard, and company requirements into practical risk-based solutions; strengthens critical controls in design and field execution; and uses program data, event learning, and field insights to drive sustainable improvement aligned with site priorities and business needs.

• Lead the West Point HRW Steering Committee and HRW Councils, aligning all site organizations to one site program, following GSE procedures and training.
• Serve as the site subject matter expert and procedure owner for high-risk work, including hazardous energy control, line breaking, confined space entry, work at height, hot work, and other critical-risk activities.
• Develop and deliver technical training and qualification support for employees, contractors, and program owners responsible for high-risk work and machinery safety.
• Manage HRW contractor, partnering to deploy the HRW Auditing Tool and drive timely, effective improvement to permit compliance.
• Partner with Facilities, Engineering, Operations, and project teams on P&, commissioning, and equipment handover.
• Provide technical leadership for machinery safety, including machine risk assessments, safeguarding controls, and verification of risk-reduction measures across the equipment lifecycle.
• Conduct and facilitate field risk assessments, machinery safety reviews, pre-startup reviews, and critical-control verifications; document gaps, establish risk-based priorities, and drive actions to timely closure.
• Lead or support investigations of high-potential events, near misses, and machinery-related incidents; identify systemic causes, evaluate control failures, and ensure corrective and preventive actions are effective and sustained.
• Support regulatory inspections, internal audits, management reviews, and enterprise or divisional initiatives related to high-risk work and machinery safety.

Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• At least 5 years of safety program or technical safety experience in a manufacturing, laboratory, engineering, or similarly complex environment.
• Strong knowledge of high-risk work controls, including hazardous energy control and activities such as line breaking, confined space entry, work at height, excavation, lifting and rigging, or hot work.
• Working knowledge of machinery risk assessment, safeguarding, safety-related controls, interlocks, emergency stops, and control verification.
• Ability to apply OSHA, consensus, and company standards to field work, work planning, equipment design, and capital projects.
• Strong investigation, risk assessment, problem-solving, project management, and corrective-action skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and communicate technical requirements clearly, using Microsoft Office and relevant digital systems.

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, or other highly regulated manufacturing or research environments.
• Experience applying recognized machinery safety standards and methodologies, such as ANSI, NFPA, ISO, or equivalent risk-based…