Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Career Category Corporate Services Job Description Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions and cancer.

As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team.

Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

• Delivers results through influence and communicating effectively with clients and through practical integration of EHS processes with business practices.
• Independently take action to drive improvement in EHS performance in key program areas.
• Manage complex problems and coordinate the implementation of innovative solutions.
• Change agent who drives improvement in a matrixed environment.

• Provide Client support (EHSS advance culture change, training, risk reviews, incident investigations, lab specific change controls, etc.) to research and development departments.
• Conduct laboratory-based risk assessment, ensure employees are trained and appropriate engineering controls are in place to minimize employee risk.
• Serves as program owner and subject matter expert for industrial safety compliance (LOTO, Hot Work, Machine Guarding, Dock Safety) and change control programs.
• Conducts analyses of incident causes and associated hazards to be used to target specific prevention strategies in laboratory environments.
• Lead or support Human Performance (HOP), Incident Investigation and/or Root Cause Analysis, for particularly technically complex or high hazard incidents.
• Makes recommendations to management regarding potential environmental, health, and safety business impacts.
• Ensure hazards are identified and risks are proactively assessed.
• Establish safe work procedures for hazardous work being performed in chemical and biological laboratories.
• Analyze metrics and establish action plans to drive continuous improvement.
• Participate on the Emergency Response Teams and address emergency response cases at the site.

Liaisons:
Reports to Site EHSS Director Participate in EHSS Global Network Teams Frequently interacts with Engineering, Project Managers, Business Continuity, and Facilities.

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of experience OR High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience

Degree in, chemical engineering, engineering, chemistry, biology or other science areas, or environmental, safety, or industrial hygiene. Experience in Risk Management, including developing and implementing EHS risk management programs in Chemical and Biological laboratory operations. Strong understanding of Chemical and Biological laboratory operations. Proven success in managing industrial safety and change control programs. Familiarity with risks and controls around high potency…