Biosafety Consultant

Our client supports leading institutions across higher education, life sciences, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing who cure diseases, teach the next generation of scientists, and manufacture the therapies patients depend on.

Therole is onsite in the greater Boston area, and works alongside industrial hygienists, waste, and embedded services teams on multi-scope client programs.

• Inspect laboratories,vivaria, and containment spaces against NIH Guidelines, BMBL, and institutional biosafety requirements, and document findings with corrective actions.
• Evaluate containment practice and equipment through direct observation and conversation with bench personnel, including biosafety cabinet use and certification status, PPE selection for the agent and procedure, sharps handling, decontamination, and biological waste segregation.
• Identify exposure risks from infectious agents, recombinant and synthetic nucleic acids, viral vectors, and aerosol-generating procedures, and recommend controls spanning containment level, engineering controls, directional airflow, work practice, and PPE.
• Investigateexposureincidents, spills, sharps injuries, and containment near misses,identify root causes, and recommend corrective and preventive actions, including any required agency or IBC notification.
• Work with principal investigators, laboratory managers, and client EHS staff on biosafety concerns, and recommend corrective actions the bench will actually adopt.
• Independently deliver biosafety training, including new researcher orientation, blood borne pathogens, BSL-2 practices and containment, biological spill response, and shipping of biological materials, along with general EHS topics such as hazard communication where clientsrequirethem.
• Prepare required documentation, including risk assessments, IBC protocol records, exposure and incident reports, biosafety cabinet certification records, and OSHA blood borne pathogen and other regulatory recordkeeping.
• Develop and update biosafety manuals, exposure control plans, standard operating procedures, and related health and safety policies.
• Scope and plan engagements: translate a client request into a defined scope, deliverables, timeline, and level of effort, and say so when the stated ask will not solve the underlying problem.
• Run structured discovery with laboratory, facilities, and EHS stakeholders, then reconcile what people report with what site observations and data show.
• Produce client-ready written deliverables, including assessment reports, gap analyses, containment recommendations, and program roadmaps that leadwiththe recommendation and support it with evidence.
• Present findings to client EHS leadership and laboratory management, including the practical trade-offs behind each recommendation.
• Manage scope, schedule, and hours against the approved plan, and raise a change order rather than absorbing unplanned work.
• Quantify the financial case for recommendations: cost avoidance from prevented findings and incidents, savings from containment level and waste stream decisions, and the cost comparison between fractional credentialed coverage and a full-time hire.
• Track enablement outcomes alongside compliance outcomes, including faster protocol review cycles, shorter time to first experiment in new or renovated space, and fewer interruptions to active research.
• Surface observations and opportunities from the field, including new programs, new space, leadership changes, and unmet client needs, and relay them to the account team.
• Build the practice through reusable templates, training material, and mentoring of junior staff.

• 1-5 years of progressive professional experience in biosafetyor a closely related field, including research compliance,researchor diagnostic laboratory operations, or EHS withbiologicalscope.
• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, ora related fieldsuch as Occupational Health and Safety, Chemistry, or Engineering.
• Professional knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations pertaining toCDC and NIH biosafety guidelines as they apply to infectious agents, recombinant DNA, and blood borne pathogens.
• Demonstrated ability to apply core biosafety concepts, including criteria forestablishingappropriate biosafetycontainment levels across diverse research and laboratory applications.
• Demonstrated knowledge of recombinant DNA technology, viral vectors, and biological hazards.
• Experienceparticipatingin or managing Institutional Biosafety…