Material Safety Lead

Roche; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 104,000 - 193,100; Full time

Job summary

Roche in Indianapolis, IN is seeking a Material Safety Lead to provide enterprise-level leadership for the safe procurement, handling, inventory control, and lifecycle management of our clinical diagnostics portfolio in a warehouse environment.

You will collaborate with Engineering, SHE, and Business Insights to design code-compliant storage infrastructures, enforce hazard containment, and drive predictive risk models and inventory trends to ensure uninterrupted patient care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Chemistry, Industrial Hygiene, or a related clinical/scientific discipline.
• 5-7 years of progressive environmental health and safety or process engineering leadership with documented success in analytical lab environments and high-density warehouse storage.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a compelling safety vision that links hazardous material storage to product integrity and patient care.
• Monitor shifts in environmental, chemical, and building safety frameworks to engineer resilient facility controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design warehouse storage infrastructures that mitigate chemical reactivity.
• Develop matrix-based safety grids to optimize storage configurations.
• Establish and audit safe storage protocols for inventory, ensuring rack load distribution and clear flue spaces.
• Partner with Data Analytics to model inventory limits against MAQs using BI tools.
• Create education tools to promote best-in-class storage practices.
• Serve as liaison among Warehouse Logistics, QA, Procurement, and Corporate SHE networks.
• Lead risk assessment for integrating new storage automation and WMS systems.
• Maintain understanding of cold-chain safety boundaries to preserve diagnostic efficacy.
• Utilize enterprise data systems (Tableau, SAP, PowerBI) to track safety indicators.

Skills

Chemical Engineering

Occupational Health & Safety

Chemistry

Industrial Hygiene

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Tableau

SAP

PowerBI

Job description

In alignment with our core corporate purpose—"Doing now what patients need next"—the Material Safety Lead provides strategic, enterprise-level leadership to ensure the safe procurement, handling, inventory control, and lifecycle management of our clinical diagnostics portfolio and associated laboratory reagents within a warehouse environment.

Opportunity

• Strategic Partnership & Visibility: Collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders such as Engineering, SHE, and Business Insights to design code-compliant storage infrastructure(s). Influence and own the warehouse's hazard containment roadmap, presenting predictive risk models and inventory trends.
• Culture of Excellence: Cultivate a proactive safety culture and implement best practices from potential safety events into continuous process refinements. Design and govern safety architectures, including the immediate enforcement of structural changes or inventory caps (MAQs) required by code.
• Operational Velocity & Strategic Mitigation: Optimize the high-velocity diagnostic supply chain while maintaining strict regulatory compliance, organizational integrity, and operational focus. Identify systemic problems and implement permanent corrective actions.

What You Do

• Develop and implement a compelling safety vision that directly links rigorous hazardous and corrosive material storage to clinical product integrity and uninterrupted patient care.
• Actively monitor and anticipate shifts in global, national, and local environmental, chemical, and building safety frameworks (OSHA, EPA, NFPA) to engineer resilient, future-proof facility controls.
• Partner with key stakeholders to design and implement warehouse storage infrastructures that mitigate chemical reactivity.
• Develop matrix-based safety grids to optimize storage configurations.
• Establish and audit baseline safe storage protocols for non-hazardous and high-density inventory, ensuring structural integrity through proper rack load distribution, pallet overhang compliance, and the strict maintenance of unobstructed longitudinal and transverse flue spaces.
• Collaborate with Data Analytics to architect predictive inventory modeling systems, monitoring total storage volumes against local fire code Maximum Allowable Quantities (MAQs).
• Develop work instructions and education tools to create awareness of best-in-class storage practices for materials.
• Serve as the liaison between Warehouse Logistics, Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Corporate SHE networks to cultivate a unified, site-wide culture of safety.
• Lead the technical evaluation and risk mitigation strategies required during the integration of new storage automation, digital Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), or shifting product portfolio demands.
• Develop and maintain a technical understanding of cold-chain safety boundaries and cryogenic risks to ensure facility storage conditions consistently preserve diagnostic efficacy.
• Utilize enterprise data systems or business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, SAP, PowerBI) to track leading safety indicators and model warehouse storage inventory limits.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Chemistry, Industrial Hygiene, or a related clinical/scientific discipline.
• 5-7 years of progressive environmental health and safety or process engineering leadership with documented success spanning both analytical laboratory environments and high-density warehouse storage operations.

Preferred Professional Credentials

• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM).
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Chemical Hygiene Officer (CHO).
• Advanced, demonstrable command of NFPA 30 (Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code) and NFPA 400 (Hazardous Materials Code) within industrial facility architectures.
• Robust understanding of Good Distribution Practices (GDP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) as they apply to medical-grade, climate-controlled environments.

Benefits

• Salary: $104,000 - $193,100 per year (base pay based on location).
• Location: Indianapolis, IN.
• Relocation: Not available for this posting.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to discrimination on the basis of protected veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

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