EHSS Lead Tres Cantos Site

Job Purpose

DELIVERY OF EHSS service to the R&D Tres Cantos site to ensure that delivery of an efficient and effective EHSS service with consistent standards and processes are adopted and a strong and robust partnership exists with the other services within EHSS. Support the EHSS R&D EU Regional Lead with specialist and generalist EHSS expertise in the delivery of EHSS services in the EU region.

Key Responsibilities

• Personally act as EH&S lead for the R&D Tres Cantos site. Provide strong leadership strategic direction coordinate and deliver EHS services and programmes in all areas of EHS to the Tres Cantos site.

• Provide day to day support as part of the EHSS R&D EU team to deliver first line advice training coaching independent business monitoring emergency response risk assessment incident investigation input to local projects and processes as needed.

• Partner with a wide range of customers from different parts of the R&D organization to develop support and ownership of area EHS risk.

• Working effectively with other key EHS professionals to deliver an efficient EHS service to business partners facilities and project management staff.

• To ensure that senior R&D managers are fully apprised of their responsibilities in risk management and pro-actively support the EHS objectives of R&D. As a critical part of their working with R&D Senior leaders they Chair the site EHS Safety Council and interact directly with R&D senior managers.

• To ensure the interests of R&D are represented and protected both within and external to GSK. To maintain comprehensive external and cross business awareness and lead and participate in significant cross company initiatives.

• Provide specialist technical services to the research and development groups within the region. This role provides for direction and advice to enable R&D scientific staff to successfully conduct work and remain compliant with local and National EHS regulations and guidelines.

• Work effectively with other EHS professionals to ensure comprehensive support is provided to the business and that synergies are maximized between team members and good practice is shared between departments.

Why you

Basic Requirements:

• Relevant scientific discipline (e.g. chemistry biology engineering). Environment Health or Safety expertise.

• A post-graduate EHS qualification in a relevant discipline. Member of an appropriate EHS professional body. Credentialed in a specific topic area (e.g. CIH)

• Highly successful track record (over a period of time) in a range of EHS roles proven ability in successfully managing EHS professionals and interacting credibly with senior R&D Managers.

• Medium-High Level of English

• Native Spanish Speaker

Other Skills:

• Proven leadership abilities to motivate staff as well as senior GSK managers in a demanding and rapidly evolving environment.
• Increasing responsibilities in a range of EHS management roles with proven ability in successfully managing EHS Safety technicians and interacting credibly with senior R&D Managers
• Proven managerial skills and leadership abilities to motivate own staff as well as senior GSK managers in a demanding and rapidly evolving environment.
• Strong ability to act as a motivator of change for customers to facilitate the creation and development of pro-active EHS culture within R&D and an organisation that supports this.
• Proven ability to think and act strategically and engage in long term planning.
• Good knowledge of safety & environment legislation and an awareness of current developments and emerging scientific issues.
• Proven track record in dealing with business critical EHS issues and leading a team both in the matrix and also a line team to come up with and implement pragmatic value added solutions in a timely way to the satisfaction of customers.
• Established coordinated and delivered EH&S training programmes.

Why GSK

Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade as a successful growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make so were committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how together we deliver for patients shareholders and our people.

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