Job title: Head of Health & Hygiene
- Location: Ocoyoacac, Cuautitlán Izcalli
- Job type: Permanent, Full time
About the job
Our Team:
We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of your Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your Job as Head of Health & Hygiene, within our global vaccines business, will be to ensure the site’s activities compliance to all relevant Health and Hygiene, regulations and standards.
Main responsibilities:
- Develop and implement local Health policies and programs to ensure a safe and healthy work environment. Establish and maintain high hygiene standards across the site.
- Identifies, anticipates, evaluates and controls local processes (manufacturing, control, storing , etc), environmental factors or stresses in the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health or impact on wellbeing. Lead and monitor the exposure assessment programs (API, CMR,OEB 4 &5, Chemicals handling, biological agents, Noise, Ergonomic, etc) and drive management reviews.
- Conduct regular risk assessments to identify potential Health and hygiene hazards and work closely to the team to solve issues and implement mitigation strategies
- Oversee Occupational health and hygiene (Biosafety) monitoring programs, including regular health check-ups and occupational health assessments for employees and conduct meeting with the local internal and external stakeholders. Establish metrics and monitor data to identify trends and issues and to implement action plan.
- Develop and deliver training programs on Health and Hygiene best practices for all employees and stakeholders to guarantee that all employees have the knowledge and capabilities needed for their tasks.
- Lead investigations health-related incidents and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Analyze health and hygiene data to identify trends and areas for improvement, and report findings to SLT and above site senior management
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement initiatives and drive innovation in Health & Hygiene initiatives and process improvements to maintain a competitive edge.
- Lead & promote health and wellness initiatives, such as vaccination programs, mental health support, and healthy lifestyle campaigns.
- Lead and manage the Health & Hygiene (Biosafety) team including hiring, training, coaching, capabilities developing and performance evaluation which drive an excellent operating mindset.
About you
- Experience: Relevant experience in HSE field, administrating Occupational Health, Hygiene, Chemical Safety and Biosafety within the pharmaceutical industry.
- Soft skills:
- Direct management and transversal management skills
- Strong abilities to coach and animate to drive transformation and Health & Hygiene performance
- Problem solving
- Project management and planning skills
- Striving for results and ability to influence and negotiate
- Technical skills:
- Local regulatory knowledge, NOM
- Controls implementation and risk management
- Occupational Health program administration
- Third party vendor management
- Education: Bachelor’s degree
- Languages: Intermediate English Proficiency
Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.
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