EHS Specialist

Job description

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Apr 26 2024

We are looking for an EHS Specialist to join our team.

Responsible for partnering with EHS R&D Team members to support the governance, development and continuous improvement of incident response, and general EHS support as relevant to the business needs, GSK's objectives and compliant with regulations.

This role will also provide general support to GSK UK R&D to ensure delivery of an efficient and effective EHS service across sites in the region that meets customer needs and meets required standards, support the local awareness and knowledge development in key technical EHS aspects and management systems.

This individual will drive success by engaging, influencing and collaborating, globally, to ensure our Fire and Life procedures, training, and communications are being effectively managed within an extremely complex and diverse organization.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

In this role you will

• Develop, implement, manage and track all aspects of the incident response programme.
• Lead audits and investigations into near misses and incidents across a full range of GSK operating companies to monitor progress in this particular specialism.
• Work with the R&D customer groups to develop and refine local the EHS management systems in line with emerging requirements and needs.
• Influence and negotiate with stakeholders to ensure EHS programmes and practices enable Business Areas to continue operations in an efficient, safe and environmentally responsible way.
• Provide services and solutions to R&D business area and/or specialism that meet legal and corporate requirements whilst also satisfying the evolving needs of the business
• Extensive matrix working and influencing required with a range of EHS&S, R&D, WREF and Corporate groups

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Higher level qualification in scientific related discipline or the field of Environment, Health and Safety.
• Experience of delivering specialist technical expertise to business customers particularly related to general safety and incident response.
• Experience of providing EHS support, working as an EHS Specialist.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Degree and Postgraduate qualification in scientific subject preferably chemistry,
• Recognized safety qualification - NEBOSH Diploma highly desirable
• Experience in incident and emergency response.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects.
• Clear thinking, decisive and prepared to challenge to maintain standards and ensure regulatory compliance.

Closing Date for Applications - 10th May 2024 (COB)

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At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease. Science and technology are coming together in a way they never have before, and we have strong tech-enabled capabilities that allow us to build a deeper understanding of the patient, human biology and disease mechanisms, and transform medical discovery. We are revolutionising the way we do R&D. We're uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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Our approach to R&D .

Why GSK?

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

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

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