Manager, Industrial Hygiene & Safety

Use Your Power for Purpose

Pfizer’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) team is essential in upholding the highest safety standards for both patients and colleagues. As a member of this innovative community, you will contribute to delivering excellence, ensuring that Pfizer's medicines reach those who need them most with greater efficiency and safety than ever before. This dedicated team is committed to maintaining superior safety protocols, enabling the swift and secure distribution of our products. By joining us, you become part of a forward-thinking group focused on excellence and innovation, driving the mission to provide safe and effective medicines to patients worldwide.

What You Will Achieve

In this role, you will:

• Lead Industrial Hygiene and Safety programs and co-lead high-level projects, conduct risk assessments, incident investigations, and implement best practices
• Monitor compliance and Environment, Health & Safety performance, report key metrics, and recommend corrective actions
• Provide technical support and training for site safety and industrial hygiene programs
• Assist in performing risk assessments to include occupation risk, process hazard Analysis (PHA, HazOp, FMEA, What-if, etc.).
• Assist in implementing effective EHS cultural improvement and engagement activities. 
• Interact with Pfizer Legal Groups, including Global Environment, Health & Safety legal, and liaise with regulatory compliance organizations.
• Implement risk reduction strategies and offer advice on implementing Pfizer Health & Safety standards, site safety policies, and regulations governing safety
• Conduct workplace condition assessments and audits to ensure compliance with federal and state occupational safety and health standards
• Evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken to prevent personal injuries
• Partner with site business functions (engineering, operations, etc.) and external sources to implement improvements, apply skills and discipline knowledge, and make decisions to resolve moderately complex problems
• Effectively time manage to meet objectives, forecast, and plan resource requirements for divisional projects
• Utilize EHS systems (e.g., Cority, Enablon, AI agents, etc.)
• Other duties as assigned

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

• BA/BS with at least 4 years of experience or MS/MEng/MBA with at least 2 years of experience or PhD/JD with any years of experience or associate's degree with at least 8 years of experience or high School Diploma (or Equivalent) with at least 10 years of relevant experience
• Strong technical experience implementing industrial hygiene, safety and environmental programs and key processes is required
• Demonstrated working knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory requirements and guidelines associated with EHS compliance.
• Excellent leadership, analysis, judgment, commensurate with position responsibilities
• Exceptional interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):

• A master's degree in science, engineering, technical or related areas combined with substantial project management experience
• Professional related certifications from accredited organizations such as the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, Board of Certified Safety Professionals or the National Safety Council, Institute of Hazardous Material Management (ASP, CSP, CHMM, CIH, IH, EIT, PE, PMP, etc.)
• Experience managing facility and/or contractor safety programs in a pharmaceutical or related industry
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations
• Experience with regulatory compliance and liaising with regulatory organizations
• Strong technical support skills for site safety and industrial hygiene programs
• Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely exposed to general laboratory and/or manufacturing areas; work near moving mechanical parts; toxic or caustic chemicals; noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Must be able to walk, climb stairs and ladders, and lift and carry up to 25 pounds for limited distances. 

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

• Job is in support of a 24-hour/7-day operation and weekend/overnight support may be needed on a limited basis. 

Other Job Details:

• Relocation support available
• Work Location Assignment: On Premise
• Las day to apply: October 13th

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.  Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.  This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

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