Ehs Senior Associate – Environmental Lead

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · KS

The EHS Senior Associate – Environmental Lead role at Pfizer focuses on supporting and co-leading EHS projects, with a primary emphasis on environmental programs such as waste management, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. The role involves risk assessments, audits, inspections, maintaining EHS management systems, and liaising with legal and regulatory bodies. Responsibilities include developing training, assessing risks, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards within a pharmaceutical manufacturing context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support and co-lead moderately complex EHS projects independently, or with a team identifying hazardous situations and implementing risk reduction solutions.
  2. Primary focus on environmental programs (waste management, hazardous waste, sustainability, stormwater, air emissions), environmental regulatory permits, risk assessments, internal EHS audits, safety inspections, and EHS management systems.
  3. Monitor compliance and Environment, Health & Safety performance, maintain and report on key metrics, and recommend corrective actions.
  4. Assess risks, including their probability, magnitude, and financial impact, and develop cost-effective control alternatives.
  5. Develop and administer interactive training in support of EHS programs.

Skills

Required

  • bachelor's degree with at least 2 years of experience; OR a master's degree with more than 0+ years of experience; OR an associate's degree with 6 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 8 years of relevant experience.
  • Demonstrated working knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory requirements and guidelines associated with EHS compliance.
  • A good understanding of environmental programs and key regulatory requirements is required.
  • Leadership, analysis, judgment, commensurate with position responsibilities, and levels of Pfizer and agency interaction.
  • Experience performing internal audits of EHS programs, policies, and procedures
  • Excellent written and communication skills.
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Power BI.
  • Experience with safety program development and cross-functional implementation.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) required.
  • Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills, creativity in problem solving, and flexibility.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills. Must be comfortable making presentations to groups and representing the department/facility externally.

Nice to have

  • 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 environmental programs.
  • Professional related certifications from accredited organizations such as the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management, Board of Certified Safety Professionals or the National Safety Council, Institute of Hazardous Material Management (CHMM, ASP, CSP, CIH, IH, EIT, PE, etc.) and /or environmental health and safety management systems (ISO 14001/45001).
  • Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience.
  • Experience in the application of regulations and industrial codes (IBC, NFPA, NEC, etc.) in operations.
  • Experience with in-plant Emergency Response Teams.

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated working knowledge of local, state, and federal regulatory requirements and guidelines associated with EHS compliance.
  • A good understanding of environmental programs and key regulatory requirements is required.
  • Experience performing internal audits of EHS programs, policies, and procedures
  • Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) required.