Senior Director HSE - Alzey

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Organization Overview:

Lilly is designing and building a Next-Generation Parenteral and Device Assembly/Packaging Facility in Alzey, Germany. This is an exciting opportunity to help build and operate a pioneering manufacturing site from the ground up. Our new Alzey facility will be one of Lilly’s most technically advanced manufacturing sites and will include next-generation manufacturing technologies and advanced data collection and analysis platforms that will result in safety and quality improvements, increased efficiency, and variability reduction.

Responsibilities:

The Sr. Director - Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE) will provide technical, strategic, and administrative leadership to the HSE function for the Alzey site. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Ensuring regulatory/site/corporate HSE compliance, development of HSE systems/processes/programs, development of the HSE staff, enabling operational excellence, and establishing an injury-free workplace.

As a member of the Site Lead Team, you will contribute to all SLT responsibilities such as strategic and business planning, objectives and priorities setting, control and monitoring of activities, etc.

You will lead the HSE organization ensuring that processes are in compliance with all applicable standards: HSE, Quality, Human Resources, FRAP/Finances, Ethics (red book), and Lilly values.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

• Ensuring compliance with all internal and external requirements
• Establishing an injury-free workplace
• Develop and implement the HSE management system
• Achieving environmental goals
• Permitting, regulatory compliance, and building relationships with HSE regulators
• Partnering with Corporate HSE function
• Collaborate with HSE peers at other Lilly Manufacturing sites
• Establishment of local employee health services in collaboration with HR
• Strategic and business planning and develop site HSE Roadmap
• Lead Team Member with cross-functional influence
• Develop, establish, and sustain systems, processes, and programs for the Concord site to support the transition from construction to start-up
• Partner with construction and design build firms to ensure smooth handoff from construction to start-up
• Provide leadership and technical support for all HSE activities at the Concord site
• Understand and support the HSE event, CAPA and change control processes, and influence application of the hierarchy of controls to reduce risk, driving toward site and company goals to achieve an injury-free workplace
• Leverage knowledge of severe injury risk to influence minimization of potential events and increase awareness/knowledge among site resources
• Provide Industrial Hygiene, industrial safety, and environmental support for the site
• Ensure HSE compliance. Host audit & inspection. Assure prompt closure of all regulatory commitments

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Scientific, Engineering, or HSE discipline
• HSE experience including manufacturing
• Experience with CAPA system for HSE changes and deviations
• Fluent in German and English
• On-site presence required

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Strong HSE regulatory knowledge
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills
• Strong communication, interpersonal and computer skills required
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Green sites start-up experience preferred
• GMP operational experience

Why work for Lilly?

Pioneering Spirit: Become part of a growing team of specialized professionals in Alzey that will grow to up to 1,000 colleagues over the next three years.

Innovation: You will work in a high-tech production facility that will be equipped with the most advanced technology.

Individual Contribution: Right from the start, you will have the freedom to contribute your ideas and implement them in cross-functional teams.

Career & Development: We attach great importance to supporting our employees individually in their career development and guarantee fair access to professional training worldwide via our “Corporate Lilly University.”

Financial benefits: In addition to your attractive salary, we offer you the option of an excellent company pension scheme and other individual benefits.