Manager, Industrial Hygiene & Safety - McPherson, KS

Use Your Power for Purpose

Pfizer’s Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) team is essential in upholding the highest safety standards for both patients and colleagues. As a member of this innovative community, you will contribute to delivering excellence, ensuring that Pfizer's medicines reach those who need them most with greater efficiency and safety than ever before. This dedicated team is committed to maintaining superior safety protocols, enabling the swift and secure distribution of our products. By joining us, you become part of a forward-thinking group focused on excellence and innovation, driving the mission to provide safe and effective medicines to patients worldwide.



What You Will Achieve

In this role, you will:

Lead Industrial Hygiene and Safety programs and co-lead high-level projects, conduct risk assessments, incident investigations, and implement best practices
Monitor compliance and Environment, Health & Safety performance, report key metrics, and recommend corrective actions
Provide technical support and training for site safety and industrial hygiene programs
Assist in performing risk assessments to include occupation risk, process hazard Analysis (PHA, HazOp, FMEA, What-if, etc.).
Assist in implementing effective EHS cultural improvement and engagement activities. 
Interact with Pfizer Legal Groups, including Global Environment, Health & Safety legal, and liaise with regulatory compliance organizations.
Implement risk reduction strategies and offer advice on implementing Pfizer Health & Safety standards, site safety policies, and regulations governing safety
Conduct workplace condition assessments and audits to ensure compliance with federal and state occupational safety and health standards
Evaluate the effectiveness of actions taken to prevent personal injuries
Partner with site business functions (engineering, operations, etc.) and external sources to implement improvements, apply skills and discipline knowledge, and make decisions to resolve moderately complex problems
Effectively time manage to meet objectives, forecast, and plan resource requirements for divisional projects
Utilize EHS systems (e.g., Cority, Enablon, AI agents, etc.)
Other duties as assigned
 

Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)

BA/BS with at least 4 years of experience or MS/MEng/MBA with at least 2 years of experience or PhD/JD with any years of experience or associate's degree with at least 8 years of experience or high School Diploma (or Equivalent) with at least 10 years of relevant experience
Strong technical experience implementing industrial hygiene, safety and environmental programs and key processes is required
Demonstrated working knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory requirements and guidelines associated with EHS compliance.
Excellent leadership, analysis, judgment, commensurate with position responsibilities
Exceptional interpersonal and negotiation skills
Excellent written and communication skills
Proficiency in MS Office


Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements):

A master's degree in science, engineering, technical or related areas combined with substantial project management experience
Professional related certifications from accredited organizations such as the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, Board of Certified Safety Professionals or the National Safety Council, Institute of Hazardous Material Management (ASP, CSP, CHMM, CIH, IH, EIT, PE, PMP, etc.)
Experience managing facility and/or contractor safety programs in a pharmaceutical or related industry
Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations
Experience with regulatory compliance and liaising with regulatory organizations
Strong technical support skills for site safety and industrial hygiene programs
Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance productivity.
  
 

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is routinely exposed to general laboratory and/or manufacturing areas; work near moving mechanical parts; toxic or caustic chemicals; noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Must be able to walk, climb stairs and ladders, and lift and carry up to 25 pounds for limited distances. 

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Job is in support of a 24-hour/7-day operation and weekend/overnight support may be needed on a limited basis. 


Other Job Details:

Relocation support available
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Las day to apply: October 13th
 

 

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,200.00 to $165,400.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 12.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.