Senior Specialist Safety & Environment PSM

MSD; West Point (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MSD in Pennsylvania is seeking a site leader to provide technical direction for Process Safety Management (PSM), EHS Management of Change (MOC) and Loss Prevention across West Point, North Wales and Springhouse Innovation Park.

You will partner with operations, engineering, maintenance and project teams to integrate process safety into design, startup and operations, verify safeguards, and drive risk reduction through field verification and governance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as site PSM SME and advise on PSM standard alignment with system owners.
• Maintain PSM procedures, tools, templates, and role-specific training; translate standard changes and audit lessons into practical requirements.
• Coordinate ALARP reviews with process owners, engineering, management, and global experts; document technical rationale and risk-reduction commitments.

Job description

Job Description

Basic Functions and Responsibility: Provides technical direction and program leadership for Process Safety Management (PSM), EHS Management of Change (MOC), and Loss Prevention across West Point, North Wales, and Springhouse Innovation Park, supporting Vaccines Manufacturing, Research & Development, and site support functions. Partners with operations, engineering, maintenance, project teams, and global experts to integrate process safety into design, startup, and operations. Applies company standards and regulatory and engineering requirements, field verification, event learning, and program data to close safeguard gaps, prevent incidents and asset losses, and sustain risk reduction.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as site PSM subject matter expert and GSE advisor for the PSM standard; align priorities, accountabilities, and implementation with system owners, divisional PSM leads, and process owners. Maintain PSM procedures, tools, templates, and role-specific training; translate standard changes and audit and event lessons into practical requirements and guidance. Oversee potentially hazardous process inventories, process-owner assignments, and PHA revalidation schedules; guide applicability decisions and risk reviews for hazards outside formal PSM coverage. Provide technical leadership for Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs), including HAZOP, What-If, and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA); support qualified facilitator selection, assess analysis quality, and approve reports and revalidations within assigned authority. Coordinate As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) reviews with process owners, engineering, management, and global experts; document technical rationale, approvals, risk-reduction commitments, and timelines. Partner with process owners and engineering to maintain process descriptions, safe operating limits, and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs); verify documented safeguards against installed conditions through field walkdowns. Support capital projects from design through turnover, including PHA planning, design and change reviews, and startup-critical action closure; promote inherently safer design and transfer process safety information and open actions to site