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Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety in Burlington, MA

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives.

The primary function of the Associate Director, Environmental Health and Safety will be to create a strategic partnership with department leaders to assist in identifying workplace safety and health risks and implementing control measures that align with site and corporate initiatives. The Associate Director is responsible for knowing, interpreting, and appropriately applying all applicable federal, state, and local laws, statutes and regulations.

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

+ Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)

+ Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)

+ Career advancement opportunities

+ Education reimbursement

+ 401K program with matching contributions

+ Learning platform

+ And more!

Responsibilities

+ Audit the Environmental, Health, and Safety programs. Complete and oversee Job Hazard Assessments, Accident Investigations, and Hazard Control and Prevention Reports. Track and verify corrective actions. Develop a Safety Internal Audit Checklist to comply with OSHA standards and other guidelines

+ Set up and maintain safety training programs in all applicable safety competency areas. Ensure training is appropriately documented and reviewed for compliance and timeliness. Maintain appropriate written records/ documentation of such training being conducted and reinforced

+ Ensure the facility is prepared to respond to incidents, emergencies, and other unwanted events

+ Oversee hazardous waste program to ensure waste is being disposed of according to all local, state, and federal regulations. Responsible for submitting all required reports and fees associated with hazardous waste disposal

+ Ensure completion of regulatory documents, reports and other recordkeeping requirements, such as accident records, corrective actions, etc.

+ Work closely with site leadership and scientific staff to ensure that appropriate process safety considerations are being made and that practices and procedures are planned and followed. Examples range from providing appropriate PPE to conducting a full safety assessment of projects

+ Oversee the Industrial Hygiene program including assessments, recommendations and employee awareness and training. Provide leadership and guidance to ensure Industrial Hygiene Assessments are conducted, employees are trained, and appropriate engineering controls are in place to reduce risk and overexposure

+ Provide technical support and/or orientation to outside resources or contractors for compliance with safety efforts

+ Participate in and assist with the development of continuous improvement activities and cost savings initiatives

+ Guide and promote safe work performance by developing safety policies, implementing safety campaigns, and training supervisors and employees on EH&S expectations

Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Safety, Industrial Hygiene or related field

+ Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in an industrial setting, including 2 years’ experience in a professional management role

+ Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations

+ Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals

+ Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public

+ Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

+ Knowledge of manufacturing, spreadsheet, and word processing software

+ Ability to review engineering drawings, add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, logarithms, and decimals

+ Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs

+ Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

Preferred

+ Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in a pharmaceutical setting

Education, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.

All interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.

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