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Job Description

Insight Global is looking to hire a Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) SME to sit in a hybrid environment in Frederick or Gaithersburg, MD. This individual will be responsible for providing expert EHS leadership during the earliest phases of capital project development. This role ensures that safety, health, and environmental requirements are embedded into business cases, front-end loading (FEL) deliverables, and concept design packages to prevent late-stage rework, reduce lifecycle risk, and enable compliant, operable, and maintainable facilities

Key Responsibilities Include:

- EHS Integration: Define SHE requirements for concept/FEL studies, basis of design, and user specs to ensure safety, operability, and maintainability.

- Risk Assessment: Plan and lead early risk reviews (HAZID, HAZOP, battery limits, LOPA); translate outcomes into design requirements and risk registers.

- Regulatory Compliance: Identify applicable regulations and codes (OSHA, EPA, NFPA, ASME, ASHRAE, local/state rules); align designs with permitting pathways.

- Design Criteria: Author EHS design standards for life safety, egress, hazardous area classification, ventilation, effluent segregation, flammable storage, cryogen and pressure systems, waste handling.

- Process Safety: Promote inherently safer design (elimination, minimization, segregation); address containment strategies and utilities resilience.

- Environmental Design: Integrate controls for emissions, wastewater, stormwater, waste minimization, energy/water efficiency, and sustainability goals.

- Human Factors: Embed ergonomics, access/egress, material handling, and maintainability to reduce operational risk and injuries.

- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Engineering, Real Estate, and PM; present SHE requirements and risk mitigations to governance.

- Documentation: Deliver concept-phase SHE outputs (Basis of Design, risk assessments, deviation logs, permitting strategy, emergency response concepts).

- Cost & Schedule: Provide SHE input to cost models and schedules; identify compliance-driven contingencies and constructability impacts.

- Vendor Review: Evaluate technologies and layouts for SHE compliance; set acceptance criteria for packages (skids, HVAC, utilities, storage, effluent treatment).

- Change Control: Maintain Management of Change discipline for SHE impacts of scope/design changes.

- Readiness & Handover: Define SHE readiness for design progression; hand over requirements and risk actions to downstream teams.

- Audit & Lessons Learned: Capture lessons from prior projects; conduct concept-stage reviews; improve standards continuously.

Compensation:

$75.00/hr to $85.00/hr.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

Employees in this role will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package starting on day one of employment, including options for medical, dental, and vision insurance. Eligibility to enroll in the 401(k) retirement plan begins after 90 days of employment. Additionally, employees in this role will have access to paid sick leave and other paid time off benefits as required under the applicable law of the worksite location.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Skills and Requirements

- Education: Bachelor’s or master’s in environmental health, safety engineering, chemical/biochemical engineering, industrial hygiene, or related field.

- Experience: 8–12+ years in EHS within pharmaceutical/biotech, life sciences, or advanced manufacturing, including demonstrated impact in front-end project phases (FEL/Concept/Pre FEED) and capital project environments.

- Technical Expertise: Strong command of OSHA (29 CFR 1910), EPA programs (RCRA, CAA, CWA), NFPA, building and fire codes, pressure systems, hazardous area classification, ventilation design, cryogens, flammables, effluent segregation, and waste management.

- Process and Biosafety: Familiarity with GMP facility design, NIH Guidelines, CDC BSL 2 practices, industrial hygiene, and contamination control concepts for biologics or sterile manufacturing.

- Risk Methods: Proficient in HAZID/HAZOP, preliminary LOPA, JSA, human factors reviews, and root-cause frameworks; able to translate findings into actionable design requirements.

- Standards and Tools: Experience with corporate EHS design standards, design reviews, BIM/3D model markups, and collaboration tools; comfortable reviewing PFDs/P&IDs, equipment specs, and layout drawings.

- Soft Skills: Strong stakeholder management, influence without authority, clear technical writing and presentation, and the ability to balance safety with schedule/cost and business value. - Certifications: CSP, CIH, CHMM, NEBOSH, or equivalent preferred; familiarity with LEED/sustainability frameworks a plus.

- Biologics Facilities: Cell culture, downstream purification, clean utilities (WFI, clean steam), HVAC for classified spaces, and effluent treatment systems.

- Permitting Strategy: Experience shaping permitting pathways and timelines in early design, including environmental, building, and fire approvals.

- Global/Regional Projects: Working within multinational standards and adapting designs to local regulatory differences.

- Construction and Commissioning: Awareness of constructability, pre startup safety reviews, and turnover to Operations/Quality.