Senior Manager, EHS

Sterling Pharma Solutions; Town of Germantown (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical development company is seeking a Senior Manager for Environmental Health & Safety in Germantown, Wisconsin. This role emphasizes driving a safety-focused culture, ensuring regulatory compliance, and leading incident investigations. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of EHS experience and a bachelor's degree in occupational safety or health science. The position involves hands-on leadership to enhance safety performance, execute safety programs, and foster a positive safety culture on-site.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in EHS, preferably in life sciences or manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of OSHA and NFPA safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive a safety-focused culture through employee engagement and program implementation.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable legislation and corporate policies.
• Lead incident investigations to determine root causes and design corrective actions.
• Conduct training and support onboarding for new employees.

Skills

Safety inspections compliance

Hazard recognition

Technical communication

Influencing and engagement

Data analysis and reporting

SOP implementation

Problem-solving

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety or health science

Job description

Summary of Role

The Senior Manager, Environmental Health & Safety, is accountable for driving a safety-focused culture through consistent employee engagement and safety program creation, implementation, and enhancement. The ideal candidate will drive the execution of EHS OSHA programs, leveraging training, procedural authoring and review, and relationship building with key stakeholders to drive an enhanced safety performance throughout the site. The role will aid in maintaining EHS systems executing change control for master documents and leveraging appropriate SME’s to ensure a high quality output. A pragmatic and continuous improvement mindset is a key quality for success in this role. The position requires execution of the Sterling Values and non-negotiables, as well as expertise in functional competencies included in this position profile.

Core Accountabilities

• Ensure compliance with all applicable legislation.
• Provide the necessary, support and leadership to assist management to implement all legislation, corporate policies and internal procedures for Health & Safety.
• Ensure due regard is given to Health & Safety in all operational decisions, incl. Process & Equipment design, Chemical handling, new technology introduction and Maintenance.
• Participate in the Emergency Management Team.
• Integrate safety responsibilities into all levels of management and supervision via a hands‑on, practical, and employee engagement approach.
• Regulatory compliance, ensuring adherence to federal, state, local, and internal requirements, including EPA, DNR, Village of Germantown, and company policies.
• Outline the Safety management strategy and objectives.

Additional Essential Functions

• Serves as the key EH&S stakeholder on site to engage with SLT, managers and with staff in labs and manufacturing. Demonstrate safety as a core value and establish safe work environment by actively leading the safe execution of work.
• Leads and drives incident investigations to ensure root cause is determined in timely manner and appropriate CAPA’s designed and implemented that eliminate existing dangers and create solutions that will reduce the risk of other accidents occurring.
• Analyses accident and incident reports and data for trends; makes recommendations for correcting unsafe conditions and actions.
• Supports EHS aspects of SOPs and work processes such the authoring of MPRs, RSTRs, and other EHS‑related work instructions, investigations and other work products as assigned.
• Facilitates the inclusion of appropriate SME’s in MPR’s, STR’s and other key procedures to ensure appropriate safety considerations are comprehensive, executable, and understandable.
• Supports new employee and contractor EHS orientation and onboarding by conducting training, fit‑testing, hazard communication, and other activities.
• Inspect workplace environments, activities and conditions to verify compliance with federal laws, regulations and requirements.
• Assists in the completion of regulatory and internal procedures such as environmental sampling, testing, report preparation, incident investigation, inspections, and audits.
• Audits document files and safety programs to ensure compliance with external and internal EHS and quality assurance requirements.
• Performs routine training on OSHA programs as assigned.
• Organize programs for employee safety and conduct educational trainings to instruct all workers on proper workplace behavior and activity.
• Ensures timely completion and compliance with cGMP and all other relevant company training requirements.
• An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
• Provide the operational support required to ensure a positive Safety culture is maintained on site.
• Ensure emergency plans are in place, tested regularly.

Key Competencies

• Skill in performing safety inspections ensuring compliance with OSHA and NFPA safety standards.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize and abate hazards.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non‑technical personnel.
• Ability to influence, engage with, and convince on all levels of the organisation
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and enforce safety programs, training and SOP’s.
• Ability to draw and interpret graphs and charts.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• General working knowledge of cGMP procedures and safety regulations.
• Candidates need to be competent with IT systems, and Microsoft Office including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
• Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety, health science or similar.
• Minimum of 5 years related experience in EHS, life sciences or manufacturing > 10 years preferred.

Travel Requirement

• Up to 5% travel required.

Other Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

• This position is not eligible for a flexible schedule.
• This position is not eligible for remote / hybrid work location.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and smell. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level is moderate to noisy. Occasionally, employee may be exposed to airborne particles and fumes. Occasionally, employee may be exposed to chemicals. Must have the ability to wear PPE as required. Employee occasionally may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration.

Diversity and Inclusion

Sterling values diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, past or present military service, marital status, gender identification or expression, medical condition (including genetic characteristics) or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

Why Consider Sterling?

Sterling Pharma Solutions is a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) with more than 50 years’ experience in developing and manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). This is complimented by Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) research and development bioconjugation services.

We are a fast growing, dynamic business with facilities in the UK and the US, where we employ more than 800 talented and passionate people who support our customers in bringing new medicines to market, improving and saving the lives of patients.

Our culture and our way of working is what really sets us apart as a business; we aim to deliver an exceptional experience to our customers and our employees. You can expect to be part of a supportive team, all working towards a shared goal: to deliver first‑class science and service to our customers every day.