Sr. Director HSE - GMP - Concord

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 156,000 - 228,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) participation

Comprehensive health benefits

Company bonus eligibility

Vacation benefits

Job summary

Initial Therapeutics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director HSE to oversee health, safety, and environmental programs at the Concord Plant. This role involves ensuring compliance with regulations, developing HSE initiatives, and managing teams to support solid operational practices in a manufacturing setting.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in HSE leadership and a track record of interfacing with regulatory agencies. A Bachelor's degree and several years of leadership experience are required to foster a safe workplace environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in a leadership role managing HSE teams/programs.
• Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies on environmental, health, and safety requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to ensure compliance.
• Develop and manage the HSE business initiatives and HSE Plan.
• Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are continually met.

Skills

Leadership of HSE programs

Environmental compliance

Communication

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline

Job description

Senior Director HSE

OVERVIEW

Reports to the Concord Plant Site Head.

The Senior Director, HSE (Health, Safety, and Environmental), is directly responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the HSE programs and systems for the Concord Plant manufacturing site. The Senior Director HSE is responsible for the productivity and development of the HSE employees, resolution of health, safety and environmental issues and ensuring compliance to Corporate and regulatory requirements.

This role provides HSE oversight for all site operations, including Manufacturing, environmental control, utilities, and waste operations, lab facilities, emergency response, and administrative facilities.

In addition, the Senior Director HSE provides functional HSE leadership, direction and governance to the HSE organization at the site. This role will connect the Concord Plant HSE team to the Corporate HSE group to ensure alignment and will be responsible for the systems that support regulatory inspections. The Senior Director HSE is a member of the Concord Plant Site Lead Team. The Lead Team has collective responsibility to develop and implement the strategic direction, organizational capability and management of the site. Primarily, the Lead Team drives the site toward achieving long term business objectives; continuously develops the business and organization for the future; and manages issues that span multiple teams in the organization and extend into the broader corporate/external context.

Site Lead Team members provide oversight to enable successful project delivery, build and empower a resilient organization, and implement the necessary systems and business processes required to support GMP operations, and progress the site culture. This requires significant collaboration, creativity and flexibility as the site undertakes full-scale GMP manufacturing operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide program ownership for the HSE Management System to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and Lilly Global standards for Health Safety and Environment.
• Continue to define and support the site HSE priorities & roadmap, integrating functional Lead Team partners as required. Develop and manage the HSE business initiatives, HSE Plan and HSE metrics.
• Ensure regulatory reporting requirements are continually met.
• Have external focus, benchmark best practices across network and externally.
• Develop future management and technical leadership for the site and network/global roles.
• Escalate critical environmental, health and safety issues as appropriate to line management and corporate HSE management.

REQUIREMENTS

• Experienced leadership of HSE programs and HSE management systems in a manufacturing setting (e.g., pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, food and beverage).
• Experience with implementing and managing environmental compliance programs in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies on environmental, health, and safety requirements.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline and a minimum of 10-15 years of experience in a leadership role managing HSE teams/programs.
• This candidate must be able to work closely with the Site Leadership team to ensure alignment with corporate objectives and internal decision making processes, and be able to connect and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Experience developing and managing talented, engaged and high performing teams with a focus on building strong team cultures to ensure a safe and successful work environment.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The anticipated wage for this position is $156,000 - $228,800.

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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