Director, Environmental Health & Safety

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The Director of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) leads the vision, strategy, planning, operation and implementation success of company-wide EH&S programs and initiatives.  The Director of EH&S plays a critical role in ensuring the health and safety of Blueprint employees, contractors and site visitors.   The scope of the responsibilities will include all areas within the footprint of Blueprint facilities, including all office and meeting spaces, laboratories and a vivarium.  This position also ensures that Blueprint remains in compliance with all governmental safety and environmental regulations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the biopharma industry and demonstrated success building consensus with key partners to implement EH&S best practices to build and sustain an engaging culture for employee safety and compliance.  This position will report to the Head of Facilities and have a strong connection with key Executive Team members, including the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Scientific Officer.

What will you do?

• Drives and leads the strategic development, integration and management of corporate Environmental, Health & Safety programs, processes, and initiatives in support of the Blueprint Medicines vision and growth objectives.
• Champions the EH&S Excellence culture across the organization, including international locations.
• Develops a comprehensive EH&S strategy via collaboration with the site leadership team(s), various corporate functions, and business units to achieve EH&S objectives. 
• Develops and maintains strategies to prevent incidents, injuries, illnesses and environmental incidents by implementing systematic approaches, safety protocols, and robust training programs across employee populations.
• Designs effective control systems to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, including the development and implementation of safety and environmental policies, risk assessments, safety & environmental stewardship.
• Establishes EH&S goals and objectives. Develops and manages company specific benchmarks, and KPI’s to manage successful progress towards these strategic goals.
• Creates an environment of continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned, detailed root cause analyses, and best practices proactively.
• Establishes and maintains key relationships and influence within all levels of the organization to integrate EH&S objectives into operational focuses, set strategies for EH&S improvement, and gain support for needed deployment resources.
• Recommends, implements, and manages effective organizational change.
• Anticipates future industry trends and proactively develops and implements strategic plans for EH&S capabilities that will scale as Blueprint Medicines grows and evolves.
• Fosters collaboration across sites and functions promoting the exchange of information, consistency, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintains an industry presence, fosters peer-to-peer relationships, and promotes Blueprint Medicines EH&S with recognized industry organizations and professionals.
• Lead the EH&S Committees at all sites and engage employee participation.
• Designs emergency preparedness strategies based on top EH&S risks within the business.
• Develop the Potent Compound Program and lead the Potent Compound Review Committee.
• Implement and maintain manufacturing/assembly operations safety plans and systems to ensure compliance and employee safety.
• Lead facilities efforts in crisis emergency situations, ensuring all efforts are handled effectively
• Liaise and collaborate with regulatory agencies, local law enforcement, fire department, and Community Emergency Response Teams.
• Act as a member on the Blueprint Medicines corporate ESG Team, supporting necessary efforts related to our EH&S disclosures in our sustainability report

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in an EH&S related discipline, or another aligned field. Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of EH&S experience, with focus on building strong EH&S culture and leading teams to EH&S excellence.

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Recognized EH&S related industry certification preferred: CHMM, CSP, CIH and/or CHP.
• Subject matter expertise in biopharma, life sciences EH&S management, occupational safety and industrial hygiene (biosafety, chemical hygiene & potent compounds, hazardous waste, general lab safety, radiation & laser safety, process safety management, ergonomics).
• Experience in hazardous material incident preparedness and response.
• Ability to develop, facilitate, and provide effective worker instruction, learning and training programs.
• Experience collaborating across all business functions and levels to implement innovative and creative contributions to business challenges and opportunities.
• Biology, chemical laboratory, and/or small molecule pilot plant environment experience needed. Environmental health and safety requirements also apply.
• Experience partnering with external contractors and consultants to accomplish Facilities and EH&S objectives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across different teams and departments.
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Affirmative Action

At Blueprint Medicines, we foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion.  A proud Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.  We are also an E-Verify Employer.  We will make reasonable accommodations, absent undue hardship, for qualified individuals with known disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability in need of an accommodation with the application or recruiting process, please reach out to TotalRewards@blueprintmedicines.com. 

For more information, please see our EEO-AA Policy Statement, the E-Verify Participation Poster, the Right to Work Poster, and/or the EEO Know Your Rights Poster, as well as our Pay Transparency Statement. 

Blueprint Medicines is a global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.

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