Environmental Health & Safety Engineer

GSK; Zebulon (NC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking an Environmental Health & Safety Engineer to ensure compliance with safety standards across its Zebulon site. This role involves managing environmental safety services, conducting inspections, and training personnel, supporting a culture aimed at zero accidents and promoting continuous improvement.

Benefits

Onsite cafeteria

Onsite gym

Temperature-controlled climate

Licensed onsite Health & Wellness clinic

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in Environment, Health, and Safety program development.
• Experience in Safety or Process Safety is required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with local operating companies under GSK standards.
• Conduct EHS inspections, risk assessments, and audits.

Skills

Knowledge of safety regulations

Compliance management

Environmental health expertise

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline

Job description

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Site Name: USA - North Carolina - Zebulon

Posted Date: Jun 20 2025

Are you looking for an opportunity to the manage the successful deployment of a full range of Environment Health and Safey services across the region and business units in a technically robust way? If so, this is the role for you.

As Environment Health and Safety Professional you will be responsible for ensuring commercial local operating companies are in compliance with the GSK Environment Health and Safety standards and local legislations. You will also manage the delivery of efficient and effective Environment Health and Safety services across the local operating companies.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Have in-depth knowledge of current government regulations regarding safety and environmental compliance, safe work practices, hazardous and non-hazardous materials identification, control, occupational health issues and fire prevention methods.
• Support environmental, health and safety activities at GSK Zebulon to ensure compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations.
• Review, interpret and administer EHS regulations, policies, and regulatory trends, and develop and implement effective compliance programs relating to industrial hygiene and monitoring, respiratory protection, chemical hygiene plan, bloodborne pathogens, potent compound handling, noise abatement/hearing conservation, laboratory safety, emergency response, accident investigation, contractor safety management, construction safety, hot work, machine guarding, lockout/tagout, electrical safety, process safety, confined space entry, risk assessments, radiation safety, and hazardous waste disposal.
• Provide EHS training to site personnel to achieve and maintain compliance.
• Utilize continuous improvement tools towards the goal of Zero accidents, zero defects and zero waste.
• Serve as professional general EHS Engineer to the site and to Value Streams/Departments as assigned and be able to negotiate with and influence management and employees in assigned Value Streams/Departments to implement effective EHS management systems in their areas of control.
• Conduct EHS inspections, risk assessments, and audits, tracking and escalating corrective and preventive actions as necessary.
• Act and behave in a manner consistent with the Company values.
  
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant scientific discipline such as Engineering or Occupational Health and Safety
• 7+ years' experience in Environment, Health, and Safety program development and implementation
• Experience directly related to Safety or Process Safety
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master's degree or equivalent in EHS discipline
• Preferred pharmaceutical experience in EHS and/or Process Safety
• CIH/CSP preferred, CHHM
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence effectively at all levels within the organization
• Proven capability to lead and motivate teams (line & matrix; and multi-disciplinary & cross-functional) to deliver business solutions and benefits
• Demonstrate initiative and analytical problem-solving skills - ability to use and interpret data to drive decision making
  
  
  

About The Zebulon Site

GSK’s Zebulon site is a global supplier of Respiratory and Solid Dose medicines to patients around the globe and the largest GSK Pharmaceutical secondary manufacturing site in North America. The site is located less than 30 minutes from downtown Raleigh, Wendell, Knightdale, Rocky Mount, Wilson, and Wake Forest.

Key differentiators about GSK and Zebulon:

• Our commitment to inclusion is seen as a critical advantage of ours
• Our focus on cultivating a positive work environment that cares for our employees
• Demonstrated opportunities for continued career growth driven by individual ambition
• Leaders that care about their teams and growth of both individuals and the company
• A priority focus on Safety and Quality
• Clean and GMP compliant work environment
• Onsite cafeteria
• Onsite gym
• Temperature-controlled climate
• Licensed, onsite Health & Wellness clinic
  
  
  

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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