Manager, Environmental, Health and Safety

AbbVie Inc.; Chicago (IL); Presencial; USD 120 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

AbbVie in Chicago seeks an experienced EHS Manager for Warehouse Operations to lead environmental, health, and safety programs across warehouse and distribution activities. You will partner with multiple functions to identify hazards, reduce risk, and drive continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and maintaining a strong safety culture.

The role requires leadership in a regulated pharmaceutical environment with handling of hazardous materials,

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s in EHS/Engineering plus 5+ years of EHS experience or master’s plus 3 years.
• Experience implementing EHS regulations and incident investigations.
• Ability to set measurable goals and action plans.
• Ability to develop standards and/or policies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to manage projects independently.

Responsabilidades

• Develop, implement, and maintain EHS programs for warehouse operations.
• Provide EHS guidance during planning, changes, and improvements.
• Establish annual EHS goals, metrics, and improvement priorities.
• Promote proactive safety culture and hazard prevention.
• Conduct risk assessments, ergonomics, and safety observations.
• Manage environmental programs including waste and chemical storage.
• Lead investigations of injuries, near misses, and incidents.
• Develop and maintain warehouse emergency response plans and drills.
• Manage warehouse safety training program

Conhecimentos

EHS experience

Regulatory knowledge

Incident investigations

Cross-functional teamwork

Project management

Formação académica

Bachelor’s in EHS/Engineering

Master’s in EHS/Engineering

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The EHS Manager – Warehouse Operations, is responsible for leading Environmental, Health, and Safety programs within the company’s warehouse and distribution operations. This role develops and implements strategies that protect employees, contractors, visitors, products, equipment, and the environment while supporting safe, compliant, and efficient warehouse performance.

The EHS Manager partners with Warehouse Operations, AbbVie Global EHS, Supply Chain, Quality, Facilities, Human Resources, Security, and other functions to identify hazards, reduce risk, strengthen safety culture, maintain regulatory compliance, and support continuous improvement. The role is expected to provide visible leadership in a pharmaceutical or similarly regulated environment where materials may include raw materials, finished products, chemicals, hazardous materials, controlled substances, temperature-sensitive products, and regulated waste.

Responsibilities:

List up to 10 main responsibilities for the position. Include information about the accountability and scope.

• Develop, implement, and maintain EHS programs, procedures, standards, and objectives for warehouse operations and ensure warehouse activities comply with applicable federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety laws, regulations, permits, and company requirements.
• Provide EHS guidance during warehouse planning, process changes, equipment installations, layout changes, expansions, and operational improvements.
• Establish annual EHS goals, performance metrics, action plans, and improvement priorities. Analyze and assess key performance indicators, safety trends, and present findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Promote a proactive safety culture based on employee engagement, hazard prevention, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct and oversee job hazard analyses, risk assessments, ergonomic evaluations, industrial hygiene assessments, and safety observations. This includes identifying hazards associated with material handling, powered industrial trucks, loading docks, conveyors, racking, storage systems, lifting, packaging, shipping, and receiving activities, ensuring regulatory readiness and agency representation.
• Manage environmental programs applicable to warehouse operations, including hazardous waste, non-hazardous waste, universal waste, recycling, spill prevention, and chemical storage.
• Lead or support investigations of injuries, illnesses, near misses, property damage, vehicle incidents, spills, fires, and other EHS events.
• Develop and maintain warehouse emergency response plans including the support of emergency drills, coordinating with site emergency response team and ensuring that emergency equipment is available, inspected, maintained and accessible.
• Manage the warehouse safety training program to include developing and delivering EHS training for all warehouse functions.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (EHS related, Engineering) plus 5+ years of EHS related experience or master’s degree plus 3 years of EHS related experience. EHS or engineering professional certification is preferred but not required.
• Working experience in implementing EHS regulations, conducting incident investigations, interacting with regulatory agencies and external organizations and managing cross functional teams.
• Ability to establish measurable project goals and implementation plans, balance conflicting work demands, and develop action plans including the identification of resource requirements.
• Ability to develop standards and/or policies that meet business objectives.
• Ability to actively listen, build and maintain effective working relationships with internal/external colleagues and stakeholders, and resolve conflict constructively.
• Ability to success manage projects and programs independently.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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