Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety

About Terrestrial Bio, Inc.

Terrestrial is transforming the delivery of next-generation therapies, starting with GLP-1. Terrestrial's proprietary Tacterra™ microarray patch (MAP) and applicator platform consists of a patch resembling an adhesive bandage, which is applied with a preloaded applicator and removed after a few minutes. Once applied, each patch delivers bioactive tips into the skin, which dissolve quickly into the body, rapidly releasing their therapeutic payload.

Designed for self-administration, the temperature-stable Tacterra™ platform enables precise, controlled delivery of a wide range of therapeutics without medical sharps or refrigeration.

Terrestrial is transforming the delivery of next-generation therapies, starting with GLP-1. Terrestrial's proprietary Tacterra™ microarray patch (MAP) and applicator platform consists of a patch resembling an adhesive bandage, which is applied with a preloaded applicator and removed after a few minutes. Once applied, each patch delivers bioactive tips into the skin, which dissolve quickly into the body, rapidly releasing their therapeutic payload.

Designed for self-administration, the temperature-stable Tacterra™ platform enables precise, controlled delivery of a wide range of therapeutics without medical sharps or refrigeration. Terrestrial has generated strong clinical and in-vivo proof of concept across multiple molecules. For more information, visit  Most advanced therapeutics still require cold-chain logistics and clinical administration using needles. We are developing a needle-free Microneedle-Array Patch (MAP) delivery platform that enables up to two weeks of sustained delivery with only five minutes of wear-time.

Delivering on that means running BSL-2 laboratories while standing up GMP manufacturing, on a compressed timeline and across a facility move. EHS foundations already exist here: annual training, biosafety and chemical hygiene practices, waste and vendor relationships, working documentation. We need someone to take them over and make them systematic, scalable, and audit-ready, treating safety as an operational advantage rather than a compliance checkbox.

You Will Own EHS Across Both Sites, Split Roughly Evenly Between Laboratory And Biosafety Programs And Manufacturing Safety Infrastructure. You Will Inherit Functioning Programs;
Your Mandate Is To Professionalize And Extend Them

• Manufacturing Safety:
  Build the programs a scaling operation requires, including machine guarding, lockout/tagout, ergonomics, and cleanroom operations.
• Waste & Environmental Compliance:
  Own hazardous waste generator status, RCRA and MassDEP compliance, vendor management, and environmental reporting at both sites.
• Risk, Incident & Emergency Response:
  Formalize risk assessment, job hazard analysis, incident investigation, root cause analysis, and near-miss reporting under a just-culture framework; own fire, spill, and evacuation planning.
• Training & Safety Culture:
  Take over and improve existing training and documentation practices, building a safety culture that scales with lab and manufacturing growth.
• Cross-Functional Partnership:
  Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, and Scientific Operations so EHS is built into how work gets done rather than layered on afterward.
• Metrics & Inspection Readiness:
  Develop safety metrics that give leadership visibility into organizational risk, and prepare the company for OSHA, EPA, local, and GMP-adjacent inspections.

• Education:
  
  BS in EHS, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or Biological Sciences. Advanced degree a plus.
• Experience:
  
  8+ years of progressive EHS experience in biotech, pharmaceutical, or comparable regulated manufacturing is required.
• Regulatory Core:
  Working command of OSHA regulations, hazardous waste management, risk assessment, and environmental compliance is required.
• Program Ownership:
  We highly value candidates who have held biosafety and chemical hygiene ownership as an appointed BSO, CHO, or equivalent.
• Scaling
  
  Experience:
  
  We highly value candidates who have taken an organization from research-scale to…