Health, Safety, and Environmental Associate

BioSpace; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 65,250 - 148,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits program

Company bonus

401(k) and pension options

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking an HSE associate for their new facility in Concord, North Carolina. The role involves leading safety programs, collaborating with peers, and contributing to the site’s safety culture. Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience in HSE roles. This position offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, with an anticipated wage ranging from $65,250 to $148,500 based on experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in dedicated HSE roles.
• 2+ years in a manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with OSHA, EPA, and NC Department of Environmental Quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead and improve HSE programs at the Concord site.
• Collaborate with HSE peers to achieve objectives.
• Support operational areas to enhance safety culture.

Skills

Safety leadership

Collaboration

Safety coaching

Incident investigation

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or HSE-related program

Tools

Trackwise

Emergency response systems

Job description

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life‑changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Company Overview

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. We make a difference for people around the globe by discovering, developing and delivering medicines that help them live longer, healthier, more active lives. Not only do we deliver breakthrough medications, but you also can count on us to develop creative solutions to support communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Position Overview

Lilly is investing over $1 billion to build a completely new, inspiring, and highly automated campus in Concord, North Carolina which will house warehousing & logistics, operations including parenteral, medical device assembly, and packaging, QC laboratories, and support teams to produce medicines for an unmet patient need. If you ever wanted to have a direct impact on building a team’s culture and on how the team operates, now is the perfect opportunity!

The HSE associate is responsible for leading and continuously improving their assigned HSE aspect programs. The HSE associate also provides day‑to‑day, hands‑on support to area process and flow teams to coach, train, and resolve safety issues. The HSE associate contributes to site culture through governance processes and coaching leaders. The HSE associate works in a small team of peers to accomplish shared objectives.

Key Objectives / Deliverables

• Lead and continuously improve HSE safety aspect programs for the Concord site.
• Collaborate with HSE peers to achieve shared objectives.
• Support operating areas to improve safety results and culture.
• Enhance safety culture through governance and coaching.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or HSE‑related program.
• At least 5 years experience in dedicated HSE roles.
• At least 2 years experience in a manufacturing environment in either HSE, engineering, or operations roles.

Preferred Skills

• Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies such as OSHA, EPA, and NC Department of Environmental Quality.
• Excellence in interpersonal, electronic, written, and oral communication.
• Strong facilitation and training skills.
• Ability to wear safety equipment (glasses, shoes, gloves, etc).
• Ability to work 8 hours per day Monday through Friday with overtime as required to meet key objectives.
• Ability to work some evening hours to connect with night shift employees.
• Ability to respond after normal business hours to emergent plant issues.
• Position may involve some travel, both domestically and internationally, for training and benchmarking with other Lilly sites.
• cGMP standards and FDA (or other industry) guidelines for production.
• HSE incident investigation, including multiple root cause analysis methods.
• Facilitating employee safety teams, with the goal of turning over leadership to operations employees.
• Managing a contractor safety program across a large footprint.
• Implementation of electronic permit to work systems.
• Behavior‑based safety programs.
• Effective safety gemba processes.
• Emergency response in manufacturing environments.
• Interacting with regulatory agencies.
• Powered industrial trucks and automatic guided vehicles.
• Documentation, deviation and change management systems (e.g., Trackwise, Veeva, QualityDocs, Kneat).

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

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Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $65,250 – $148,500.

Full‑time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company‑sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day‑care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well‑being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities). Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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