Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

Environmental Health & Safety Specialist in Rensselaer, NY

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives.

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist will plan, coordinate and lead the application of site health and safety programs. Areas of responsibility include health and safety program design and implementation, training, inspections, industrial hygiene, job hazard analysis, job safety analysis and management reporting. This role must establish and promote a safe and healthy work environment and assure compliance with government safety regulations. Some travel is required as well as being able to work on shifts when necessary to deliver training, attend meetings, cover start-ups, etc. 

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment) 
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities 
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more! 

Responsibilities

• Oversee and/or implement site health and safety programs including industrial hygiene, hazard communication, confined space entry, hot work, emergency response, electrical safety, lock out/tag out procedures, bloodborne pathogen exposure control plan, asbestos, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, industrial toxicology, contractor safety, ergonomics, personal protective equipment, and laboratory hygiene plan
• Plan, organize and schedule safety related training. Develop and deliver effective, applicable course materials for safety training to Curia employees, contractors and applicable business partners
• Work with emergency response team incident commanders to develop, maintain and conduct training and exercises for emergency response
• Lead and/or facilitate employee teams including safety committees and incident investigation
• Understand and oversee potent compound handling safety and industrial hygiene. Develop and/or coordinate implementation and/or continuous improvement of the required components of the potent compound control banding system
• Help guide the potent compound team in understanding and implementing best practices in the industry
• Oversee and conduct medical program case management and be responsible for coordinating modified work for restricted work activities of employees
• Coordinate annual medical surveillance and qualification program for respirator wearers, emergency response teams and potent compound monitoring
• Coordinate development of SDS for Curia products
• Conduct all job responsibilities in a manner consistent with all applicable safety and environmental laws and regulations, company policies and procedures and Curia commitment to continuously improve safety and environmental performance
• Evaluate and recommend improvements to safety equipment (i.e. eyewashes, safety showers, etc.)
• Provide some cross functionality with the Environmental side of EHS
• Manage resident security contractor with Curia to ensure vendor is following their Master Services Agreement
• Maintain site security monitoring system ensuring hardware and software fully functional
• Respond to requests on security incidents, investigations or concerns, equipment repairs

• Manage security badging system by issuing and maintaining badge access across campus, institute upgrades when needed

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Chemistry or related field
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience administering industrial health and safety programs

Preferred

• Experience in a plant or facility that has an extensive HAZCOM Program

Other Qualifications

• Must pass a background check
• Must pass a drug screen
• May be required to pass Occupational Health Screening

Pay Range: 91,700.00- 111,200.00/ Year

Education, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.

All interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.